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Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) image interpretation is widely used in various fields. Recently, deep learning has made significant progress in PolSAR image classification. Supervised learning (SL) requires a large amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jianfeng Cai , Yue Ma , Zhixi Feng , Shuyuan Yang

Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) images encompass valuable information that can facilitate extensive land cover interpretation and generate diverse output products. Extracting meaningful features from PolSAR data poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Mohammed Q. Alkhatib , M. Sami Zitouni , Mina Al-Saad , Nour Aburaed , Hussain Al-Ahmad

Speckle noise poses a significant challenge in maintaining the quality of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, so SAR despeckling techniques have drawn increasing attention. Despite the tremendous advancements of deep learning in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Xuran Hu , Ziqiang Xu , Zhihan Chen , Zhengpeng Feng , Mingzhe Zhu , LJubisa Stankovic

This paper presents a technique for reducing speckle in Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) imagery using Nonlocal Means and a statistical test based on stochastic divergences. The main objective is to select homogeneous pixels…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-18 Leonardo Torres , Sidnei J. S. Sant'Anna , Corina C. Freitas , Alejandro C. Frery

In this work we explore the performance of DCNNs on semantic segmentation using spaceborne polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) datasets. The semantic segmentation task using PolSAR data can be categorized as weakly supervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Sheng Sun , Armando Marino , Wenze Shui , Zhongwen Hu

Deep learning is an effective end-to-end method for Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar(PolSAR) image classification, but it lacks the guidance of related mathematical principle and is essentially a black-box model. In addition, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Junfei Shi , Mengmeng Nie , Weisi Lin , Haiyan Jin , Junhuai Li , Rui Wang

In synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image change detection, it is quite challenging to exploit the changing information from the noisy difference image subject to the speckle. In this paper, we propose a multi-scale spatial pooling (MSSP)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Jia-Wei Chen , Rongfang Wang , Fan Ding , Bo Liu , Licheng Jiao , Jie Zhang

In this paper we are proposing classification algorithm for multifrequency Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) image. Using PolSAR decomposition algorithms 33 features are extracted from each frequency band of the given image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Tushar Gadhiya , Sumanth Tangirala , Anil K. Roy

Existing polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) image classification methods cannot achieve satisfactory performance on complex scenes characterized by several types of land cover with significant levels of noise or similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Wenshuai Chen , Shuiping Gou , Xinlin Wang , Licheng Jiao , Changzhe Jiao , Alina Zare

This paper presents a despeckling method for Sentinel-1 GRD images based on the recently proposed framework "SAR2SAR": a self-supervised training strategy. Training the deep neural network on collections of Sentinel 1 GRD images leads to a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-28 Nicolas Gasnier , Emanuele Dalsasso , Loïc Denis , Florence Tupin

Speckle noise, inherent in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, degrades the performance of the various SAR image analysis tasks. Thus, speckle noise reduction is a critical preprocessing step for smoothing homogeneous regions while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Fatih Nar

Imaging through scattering is an important, yet challenging problem. Tremendous progress has been made by exploiting the deterministic input-output "transmission matrix" for a fixed medium. However, this "one-to-one" mapping is highly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-27 Yunzhe Li , Yujia Xue , Lei Tian

Speckle fluctuations seriously limit the interpretability of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Speckle reduction has thus been the subject of numerous works spanning at least four decades. Techniques based on deep neural networks have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Emanuele Dalsasso , Loïc Denis , Florence Tupin

Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) image classification has been investigated vigorously in various remote sensing applications. However, it is still a challenging task nowadays. One significant barrier lies in the speckle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Haixia Bi , Jing Yao , Zhiqiang Wei , Danfeng Hong , Jocelyn Chanussot

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are inherently corrupted by speckle noise, limiting their utility in high-precision applications. While deep learning methods have shown promise in SAR despeckling, most methods employ a single unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ziqing Ma , Chang Yang , Zhichang Guo , Yao Li

SAR despeckling is a key tool for Earth Observation. Interpretation of SAR images are impaired by speckle, a multiplicative noise related to interference of backscattering from the illuminated scene towards the sensor. Reducing the noise is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-20 Sergio Vitale , Giampaolo Ferraioli , Vito Pascazio

A polarization camera can capture four linear polarized images with different polarizer angles in a single shot, which is useful in polarization-based vision applications since the degree of linear polarization (DoLP) and the angle of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Chu Zhou , Minggui Teng , Xinyu Zhou , Chao Xu , Imari Sato , Boxin Shi

This letter presents a method of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image despeckling aimed to preserve the detail information while suppressing speckle noise. This method combines the nonlocal self-similarity partition and a proposed modified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Chengwei Sang , Hong Sun , Quisong Xia

In this work we address the task of semantic image segmentation with Deep Learning and make three main contributions that are experimentally shown to have substantial practical merit. First, we highlight convolution with upsampled filters,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-15 Liang-Chieh Chen , George Papandreou , Iasonas Kokkinos , Kevin Murphy , Alan L. Yuille

SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) imaging plays a central role in Remote Sensing due to, among other important features, its ability to provide high-resolution, day-and-night and almost weather-independent images. SAR images are affected from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-21 Luis Gomez , Raydonal Ospina , Alejandro C. Frery