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Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images contain a huge amount of information, however, the number of practical use-cases is limited due to the presence of speckle noise in them. In recent years, deep learning based techniques have brought…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-24 Shrey Dabhi , Kartavya Soni , Utkarsh Patel , Priyanka Sharma , Manojkumar Parmar

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are widely used in remote sensing. Interpreting SAR images can be challenging due to their intrinsic speckle noise and grayscale nature. To address this issue, SAR colorization has emerged as a research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Kangqing Shen , Gemine Vivone , Xiaoyuan Yang , Simone Lolli , Michael Schmitt

We investigate super-resolution methods for image reconstruction from data provided by a family of scanning instruments like the Herschel observatory. To do this, we constructed a model of the instrument that faithfully reflects the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 F. Orieux , J. -F. Giovannelli , T. Rodet , A. Abergel , H. Ayasso , M. Husson

Inference methods in traditional statistics, machine learning and data mining assume that data is generated from an independent and identically distributed (iid) process. Spatial data exhibits behavior for which the iid assumption must be…

Economics · Quantitative Finance 2016-07-08 Somwrita Sarkar , Sanjay Chawla

This paper presents an uncalibrated deep neural network framework for the photometric stereo problem. For training models to solve the problem, existing neural network-based methods either require exact light directions or ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Berk Kaya , Suryansh Kumar , Carlos Oliveira , Vittorio Ferrari , Luc Van Gool

We propose a new, efficient multi-scale method to decompose a map (or signal in general) into components maps that contain structures of different sizes. In the widely-used wave transform, artifacts containing negative values arise around…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-11 Guang-Xing Li

The problem of reconstructing an object from the measurements of the light it scatters is common in numerous imaging applications. While the most popular formulations of the problem are based on linearizing the object-light relationship,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-15 Yanting Ma , Hassan Mansour , Dehong Liu , Petros T. Boufounos , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Natural signals and images are well-known to be approximately sparse in transform domains such as Wavelets and DCT. This property has been heavily exploited in various applications in image processing and medical imaging. Compressed sensing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-26 Saiprasad Ravishankar , Yoram Bresler

We show how the 3DVAR data assimilation methodology can be used in the astrophysical context of a two-dimensional convection flow. We study the way this variational approach finds best estimates of the current state of the flow from a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-09 Andreas Svedin , Milena C. Cuellar , Axel Brandenburg

Earth observation satellites like Sentinel-1 (S1) and Sentinel-2 (S2) provide complementary remote sensing (RS) data, but S2 images are often unavailable due to cloud cover or data gaps. To address this, we propose a diffusion model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Kaan Aydin , Joelle Hanna , Damian Borth

To translate synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image into interpretable forms for human understanding is the ultimate goal of SAR advanced information retrieval. Existing methods mainly focus on 3D surface reconstruction or local geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Ziyu Yue , Ruixi You , Feng Xu

Aircraft-based surveying to collect airborne electromagnetic data is a key method to image large swaths of the Earth's surface in pursuit of better knowledge of aquifer systems. Despite many years of advancements, 3D inversion still poses…

Speckle suppression in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is a key processing step which continues to be a research topic. A wide variety of methods, using either spatially-based approaches or transform-based strategies, have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Alejandro Mestre-Quereda , Juan M. Lopez-Sanchez

Multi-contrast image registration is a challenging task due to the complex intensity relationships between different imaging contrasts. Conventional image registration methods are typically based on iterative optimizations for each input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yinsong Wang , Siyi Du , Shaoming Zheng , Xinzhe Luo , Chen Qin

Imaging Earth structure or seismic sources from seismic data involves minimizing a target misfit function, and is commonly solved through gradient-based optimization. The adjoint-state method has been developed to compute the gradient…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 Weiqiang Zhu , Kailai Xu , Eric Darve , Gregory C. Beroza

Many imaging technologies rely on tomographic reconstruction, which requires solving a multidimensional inverse problem given a finite number of projections. Backprojection is a popular class of algorithm for tomographic reconstruction,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-03 Xueqing Liu , Paul Sajda

Deconvolution is the most widely used aberration correction technique in microscopy, however most techniques assume that the aberrations are the same for each point in the image, which is rarely true. Methods for tracking spatially varying…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-02 Jakub Czuchnowski , Chuan Li , Hongli Ni , Brandon Weissbourd , Jerome Mertz

While optimizing convex objective (loss) functions has been a powerhouse for machine learning for at least two decades, non-convex loss functions have attracted fast growing interests recently, due to many desirable properties such as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-14 Chao Qu , Yan Li , Huan Xu

Deep unfolding networks have recently emerged as a promising approach for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging. However, baseline unfolding networks, typically derived from iterative reconstruction algorithms such as the alternating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-27 Shiping Fu , Yufan Chen , Zhe Zhang , Xiaolan Qiu , Qixiang Ye

This paper presents five different statistical methods for ground scene prediction (GSP) in wavelength-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. The GSP image can be used as a reference image in a change detection algorithm yielding…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 B. G. Palm , D. I. Alves , M. I. Pettersson , V. T. Vu , R. Machado , R. J. Cintra , F. M. Bayer , P. Dammert , H. Hellsten