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Speckle filtering is generally a prerequisite to the analysis of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Tremendous progress has been achieved in the domain of single-image despeckling. Latest techniques rely on deep neural networks to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-08 Inès Meraoumia , Emanuele Dalsasso , Loïc Denis , Rémy Abergel , Florence Tupin

In this paper, we introduce an iterative speckle filtering method for polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) images based on the bilateral filter. To locally adapt to the spatial structure of images, this filter relies on pixel similarities in both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-11-04 Olivier D'Hondt , Stéphane Guillaso , Olaf Hellwich

PolSAR data presents unique challenges due to its rich and complex characteristics. Existing data representations, such as complex-valued data, polarimetric features, and amplitude images, are widely used. However, these formats often face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yuqing Wang , Zhongling Huang , Shuxin Yang , Hao Tang , Xiaolan Qiu , Junwei Han , Dingwen Zhang

Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) images are widely used in disaster detection and military reconnaissance and so on. However, their interpretation faces some challenges, e.g., deficiency of labeled data, inadequate utilization…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-11 Qigong Sun , Xiufang Li , Lingling Li , Xu Liu , Fang Liu , Licheng Jiao

This work presents a comprehensive examination of the use of information theory for understanding Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) images by means of contrast measures that can be used as test statistics. Due to the phenomenon…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-02-11 A. C. Frery , A. D. C. Nascimento , R. J. Cintra

The data fusion technology aims to aggregate the characteristics of different data and obtain products with multiple data advantages. To solves the problem of reduced resolution of PolSAR images due to system limitations, we propose a fully…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-20 Liupeng Lin , Jie Li , Huanfeng Shen , Lingli Zhao , Qiangqiang Yuan , Xinghua Li

We propose a novel semantic segmentation algorithm by learning a deconvolution network. We learn the network on top of the convolutional layers adopted from VGG 16-layer net. The deconvolution network is composed of deconvolution and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Hyeonwoo Noh , Seunghoon Hong , Bohyung Han

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have made great progress for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images change detection. However, sampling locations of traditional convolutional kernels are fixed and cannot be changed according to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Junjie Wang , Feng Gao , Junyu Dong

Change detection is one of the fundamental applications of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. However, speckle noise presented in SAR images has a much negative effect on change detection. In this research, a novel two-phase…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Xinzheng Zhang , Guo Liu , Ce Zhang , Peter M Atkinson , Xiaoheng Tan , Xin Jian , Xichuan Zhou , Yongming Li

Ship target recognition is a vital task in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging applications. Although convolutional neural networks have been successfully employed for SAR image target recognition, surpassing traditional algorithms, most…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Dandan Zhao , Zhe Zhang , Dongdong Lu , Jian Kang , Xiaolan Qiu , Yirong Wu

Speckle noise is a fundamental challenge in coherent imaging systems, significantly degrading image quality. Over the past decades, numerous despeckling algorithms have been developed for applications such as Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Ali Zafari , Shirin Jalali

Deep convolutional neural networks have been proven successful in multiple benchmark challenges in recent years. However, the performance improvements are heavily reliant on increasingly complex network architecture and a high number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Guoqing Bao , Manuel B. Graeber , Xiuying Wang

Defocus blur is a physical consequence of the optical sensors used in most cameras. Although it can be used as a photographic style, it is commonly viewed as an image degradation modeled as the convolution of a sharp image with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Ali Karaali , Claudio Rosito Jung

In recent years, machine learning (ML) algorithms have become widespread in all the fields of remote sensing (RS) and earth observation (EO). This has allowed the rapid development of new procedures to solve problems affecting these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Alessandro Sebastianelli , Maria Pia Del Rosso , Silvia Liberata Ullo , Paolo Gamba

Over the past decade, Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) has become a successful remote sensing technique. However, during the acquisition step, microwave reflections received at satellite are usually disturbed by strong…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-28 Xinyao Sun , Aaron Zimmer , Subhayan Mukherjee , Navaneeth Kamballur Kottayil , Parwant Ghuman , Irene Cheng

We demonstrate the use of deep learning for fast spectral deconstruction of speckle patterns. The artificial neural network can be effectively trained using numerically constructed multispectral datasets taken from a measured spectral…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-16 Ulas Kürüm , P. R. Wiecha , Rebecca French , Otto L. Muskens

In this paper, we propose a multi-scale deep feature learning method for high-resolution satellite image classification. Specifically, we firstly warp the original satellite image into multiple different scales. The images in each scale are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-14 Qingshan Liu , Renlong Hang , Huihui Song , Zhi Li

Although deep learning has achieved great success in image classification tasks, its performance is subject to the quantity and quality of training samples. For classification of polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) images, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Sheng-Jie Liu , Haowen Luo , Qian Shi

The advancement of multi-channel synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system is considered as an upgraded technology for surveillance activities. SAR sensors onboard provide data for coastal ocean surveillance and a view of the oceanic surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Surya Prakash Tiwari , Sudhir Kumar Chaturvedi , Subhrangshu Adhikary , Saikat Banerjee , Sourav Basu

A weakly-supervised semantic segmentation framework with a tied deconvolutional neural network is presented. Each deconvolution layer in the framework consists of unpooling and deconvolution operations. 'Unpooling' upsamples the input…

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