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Information extraction from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is heavily impaired by speckle noise, hence despeckling is a crucial preliminary step in scene analysis algorithms. The recent success of deep learning envisions a new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-07 Andrea Bordone Molini , Diego Valsesia , Giulia Fracastoro , Enrico Magli

Deep learning (DL) in remote sensing has nowadays become an effective operative tool: it is largely used in applications such as change detection, image restoration, segmentation, detection and classification. With reference to synthetic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-19 Sergio Vitale , Giampaolo Ferraioli , Vito Pascazio

We consider the problem in Synthetic Aperture RADAR (SAR) of identifying and classifying objects located on the ground by means of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Specifically, we adopt a single scattering approximation to classify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Romina Gaburro , Patrick Healy , Shraddha Naidu , Clifford Nolan

Radar-based human activity recognition has gained attention as a privacy-preserving alternative to vision and wearable sensors, especially in sensitive environments like long-term care facilities. Micro-Doppler spectrograms derived from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-25 Huy Trinh , Davis Liu , Munia Humaira , Peter Lee , Zhou Wang

Due to its all-weather and day-and-night capabilities, Synthetic Aperture Radar imagery is essential for various applications such as disaster management, earth monitoring, change detection and target recognition. However, the scarcity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Max Muzeau , Joana Frontera-Pons , Chengfang Ren , Jean-Philippe Ovarlez

The effective combination of the complementary information provided by the huge amount of unlabeled multi-sensor data (e.g., Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and optical images) is a critical topic in remote sensing. Recently, contrastive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-11 Yuxing Chen , Lorenzo Bruzzone

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has a pivotal role as a remote imaging method. Obtained by means of coherent illumination, SAR images are contaminated with speckle noise. The statistical modeling of such contamination is well described…

Computation · Statistics 2012-07-11 Renato J. Cintra , Abraão D. C. Nascimento , Alejandro C. Frery

We synthesize both optical RGB and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote sensing images from land cover maps and auxiliary raster data using generative adversarial networks (GANs). In remote sensing, many types of data, such as digital…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Gerald Baier , Antonin Deschemps , Michael Schmitt , Naoto Yokoya

Classifying buried and obscured targets of interest from other natural and manmade clutter objects in the scene is an important problem for the U.S. Army. Targets of interest are often represented by signals captured using low-frequency…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-23 Tiep Vu , Lam Nguyen , Tiantong Guo , Vishal Monga

We present a comprehensive analysis of the performance of noise-reduction (``denoising'') algorithms to determine whether they provide advantages in source detection on extragalactic survey images. The methods under analysis are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-04 V. Roscani , S. Tozza , M. Castellano , E. Merlin , D. Ottaviani , M. Falcone , A. Fontana

Though achieving excellent performance in some cases, current unsupervised learning methods for single image denoising usually have constraints in applications. In this paper, we propose a new approach which is more general and applicable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Yutong Xie , Mingze Yuan , Bin Dong , Quanzheng Li

Existing methods for single image super-resolution (SR) are typically evaluated with synthetic degradation models such as bicubic or Gaussian downsampling. In this paper, we investigate SR from the perspective of camera lenses, named as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Chang Chen , Zhiwei Xiong , Xinmei Tian , Zheng-Jun Zha , Feng Wu

The earlier works in the context of low-rank-sparse-decomposition (LRSD)-driven stationary synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging have shown significant improvement in the reconstruction-decomposition process. Neither of the proposed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-12 Hamid Reza Hashempour , Majid Moradikia , Hamed Bastami , Ahmed Abdelhadi , Mojtaba Soltanalian

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

Semantic segmentation for SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) images has attracted increasing attention in the remote sensing community recently, due to SAR's all-time and all-weather imaging capability. However, SAR images are generally more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Gao Mengyu , Dong Qiulei

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

Speckle noise is generated along with the SAR imaging mechanism and degrades the quality of SAR images, leading to difficult interpretation. Hence, despeckling is an indispensable step in SAR pre-processing. Fortunately, supervised learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-26 Liang Chen , Yifei Yin , Hao Shi , Jingfei He , Wei Li

In this work, a novel algorithm called SVM with Shape-adaptive Reconstruction and Smoothed Total Variation (SaR-SVM-STV) is introduced to classify hyperspectral images, which makes full use of spatial and spectral information. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Ruoning Li , Kangning Cui , Raymond H. Chan , Robert J. Plemmons

Medical image acquisition is often intervented by unwanted noise that corrupts the information content. This paper introduces an unsupervised medical image denoising technique that learns noise characteristics from the available images and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-12 Swati Rai , Jignesh S. Bhatt , S. K. Patra

Speckle reduction is a longstanding topic in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Many different schemes have been proposed for the restoration of intensity SAR images. Among the different possible approaches, methods based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Emanuele Dalsasso , Xiangli Yang , Loïc Denis , Florence Tupin , Wen Yang