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Instance segmentation of ships in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery is critical for applications such as maritime monitoring, environmental analysis, and national security. SAR ship images present challenges including scale variation,…

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Cross-modal ship re-identification (ReID) between optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery has recently emerged as a critical yet underexplored task in maritime intelligence and surveillance. However, the substantial modality gap…

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Deep learning (DL) has emerged as a powerful tool for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) ship classification. This survey comprehensively analyzes the diverse DL techniques employed in this domain. We identify critical trends and challenges,…

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In recent years, text-image joint pre-training techniques have shown promising results in various tasks. However, in Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tasks, aligning text instances with their corresponding text regions in images poses a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Chen Duan , Pei Fu , Shan Guo , Qianyi Jiang , Xiaoming Wei

The detection and prevention of illegal fishing is critical to maintaining a healthy and functional ecosystem. Recent research on ship detection in satellite imagery has focused exclusively on performance improvements, disregarding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Arthur Van Meerbeeck , Jordy Van Landeghem , Ruben Cartuyvels , Marie-Francine Moens

Underwater environments pose significant challenges due to the selective absorption and scattering of light by water, which affects image clarity, contrast, and color fidelity. To overcome these, we introduce OceanLens, a method that models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-21 Rajini Makam , Dhatri Shankari T M , Sharanya Patil , Suresh Sundram

Among underwater perceptual sensors, imaging sonar has been highlighted for its perceptual robustness underwater. The major challenge of imaging sonar, however, arises from the difficulty in defining visual features despite limited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Sejin Lee , Byungjae Park , Ayoung Kim

Most existing synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ship classification technologies heavily rely on correctly labeled data, ignoring the discriminative features of unlabeled SAR ship images. Even though researchers try to enrich CNN-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Xianting Feng , Hao zheng , Zhigang Hu , Liu Yang , Meiguang Zheng

We present a novel ship wake simulation system for generating S-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images, and demonstrate the use of such imagery for the classification of ships based on their wake signatures via a deep learning approach.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-07 Kamirul Kamirul , Odysseas Pappas , Igor G. Rizaev , Alin Achim

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has been extensively utilized in maritime domains due to its all-weather, all-day monitoring capabilities, particularly exhibiting significant value in ship detection. In recent years, deep learning methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Hecheng Jia , Feng Xu

Recent advancements in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ship detection using deep learning have significantly improved accuracy and speed, yet effectively detecting small objects in complex backgrounds with fewer parameters remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Hongyu Chen , Chengcheng Chen , Fei Wang , Yuhu Shi , Weiming Zeng

Deep learning has driven significant progress in object detection using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery. Existing methods, while achieving promising results, often struggle to effectively integrate local and global information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Mingxiang Cao , Weiying Xie , Jie Lei , Jiaqing Zhang , Daixun Li , Yunsong Li

Large-scale pre-training methods of learning cross-modal representations on image-text pairs are becoming popular for vision-language tasks. While existing methods simply concatenate image region features and text features as input to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Xiujun Li , Xi Yin , Chunyuan Li , Pengchuan Zhang , Xiaowei Hu , Lei Zhang , Lijuan Wang , Houdong Hu , Li Dong , Furu Wei , Yejin Choi , Jianfeng Gao

Matching sonar images with high accuracy has been a problem for a long time, as sonar images are inherently hard to model due to reflections, noise and viewpoint dependence. Autonomous Underwater Vehicles require good sonar image matching…

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Maritime surveillance is not only necessary for every country, such as in maritime safeguarding and fishing controls, but also plays an essential role in international fields, such as in rescue support and illegal immigration control. Most…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-09 Chenwei Wang , Siyi Luo , Jifang Pei , Yulin Huang , Yin Zhang , Jianyu Yang

Object detection in satellite-borne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery holds immense potential in tasks such as urban monitoring and disaster response. However, the inherent complexities of SAR data and the scarcity of annotations…

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High-resolution remote sensing images can provide abundant appearance information for ship detection. Although several existing methods use image super-resolution (SR) approaches to improve the detection performance, they consider image SR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Shitian He , Huanxin Zou , Yingqian Wang , Runlin Li , Fei Cheng

SAR ship classification faces the challenge of long-tailed datasets, which complicates the classification of underrepresented classes. Oversampling methods have proven effective in addressing class imbalance in optical data. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Ch Muhammad Awais , Marco Reggiannini , Davide Moroni , Oktay Karakus

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery is the primary data type used for sea ice mapping due to its spatio-temporal coverage and the ability to detect sea ice independent of cloud and lighting conditions. Automatic sea ice detection using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Martin S J Rogers , Maria Fox , Andrew Fleming , Louisa van Zeeland , Jeremy Wilkinson , J. Scott Hosking

With the increasing availability of optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images thanks to the Sentinel constellation, and the explosion of deep learning, new methods have emerged in recent years to tackle the reconstruction of optical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Rémi Cresson , Nicolas Narçon , Raffaele Gaetano , Aurore Dupuis , Yannick Tanguy , Stéphane May , Benjamin Commandre