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In this letter, we propose a pseudo-siamese convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture that enables to solve the task of identifying corresponding patches in very-high-resolution (VHR) optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote…

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Anomaly detection is a key research challenge in computer vision and machine learning with applications in many fields from quality control to radar imaging. In radar imaging, specifically synthetic aperture radar (SAR), anomaly detection…

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High-resolution imagery plays a critical role in improving the performance of visual recognition tasks such as classification, detection, and segmentation. In many domains, including remote sensing and surveillance, low-resolution images…

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

The segmentation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is a longstanding yet challenging task, not only because of the presence of speckle, but also due to the variations of surface backscattering properties in the images. Tremendous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Gui-Song Xia , Gang Liu , Wen Yang

For 3D Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging, one typical approach is to achieve the cross-track 1D focusing for each range-azimuth pixel after obtaining a stack of 2D complex-valued images. The cross-track focusing is the main difficulty…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-28 Jingkun Gao , Bin Deng , Yuliang Qin , Hongqiang Wang , Xiang Li

Array synthetic aperture radar (Array-SAR), also known as tomographic SAR (TomoSAR), has demonstrated significant potential for high-quality 3D mapping, particularly in urban areas.While deep learning (DL) methods have recently shown…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-24 Yu Ren , Xu Zhan , Yunqiao Hu , Xiangdong Ma , Liang Liu , Mou Wang , Jun Shi , Shunjun Wei , Tianjiao Zeng , Xiaoling Zhang

In this article, we introduce a novel algorithm for efficient near-field synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging for irregular scanning geometries. With the emergence of fifth-generation (5G) millimeter-wave (mmWave) devices, near-field SAR…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-04 Josiah Smith , Murat Torlak

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

Target detection is the front-end stage in any automatic target recognition system for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery (SAR-ATR). The efficacy of the detector directly impacts the succeeding stages in the SAR-ATR processing chain.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-16 Khalid El-Darymli , Peter McGuire , Desmond Power , Cecilia Moloney

In this paper, we introduce an innovative super resolution approach to emerging modes of near-field synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging. Recent research extends convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures from the optical to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Christos Vasileiou , Josiah W. Smith , Shiva Thiagarajan , Matthew Nigh , Yiorgos Makris , Murat Torlak

There is rising interest in differentiable rendering, which allows explicitly modeling geometric priors and constraints in optimization pipelines using first-order methods such as backpropagation. Incorporating such domain knowledge can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-09 Michael Wilmanski , Jonathan Tamir

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a day or night any-weather imaging modality that is an important tool in remote sensing. Most existing SAR image formation methods result in a maximum a posteriori image which approximates the reflectivity…

Applications · Statistics 2020-07-14 Victor Churchill , Anne Gelb

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging is capable of observing objects in nearly all weather and illumination conditions and has become an indispensable means of information acquisition for analysis and recognition of objects and scenes.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Jie Zhou , Yongxiang Liu , Li Liu , Weijie Li , Bowen Peng , Yafei Song , Gangyao Kuang , Xiang Li

The outstanding pattern recognition performance of deep learning brings new vitality to the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR). However, there is a limitation in current deep learning based ATR solution that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Fan Zhang , Chen Hu , Qiang Yin , Wei Li , Hengchao Li , Wen Hong

Small area change detection from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a highly challenging task. In this paper, a robust unsupervised approach is proposed for small area change detection from multi-temporal SAR images using deep learning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Xinzheng Zhang , Hang Su , Ce Zhang , Xiaowei Gu , Xiaoheng Tan , Peter M. Atkinson

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are widely used in target recognition tasks nowadays. In this letter, we propose an automatic approach for radar shadow detection and extraction from SAR images utilizing geometric projections along…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-16 V. B. S. Prasath , O. Haddad

Images generated by high-resolution SAR have vast areas of application as they can work better in adverse light and weather conditions. One such area of application is in the military systems. This study is an attempt to explore the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-29 Aakash Singh , Vivek Kumar Singh

Driven by the complementary nature of optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, SAR-optical image matching has garnered significant interest. Most existing SAR-optical image matching methods aim to capture effective matching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jingze Gai , Changchun Li

Generating trajectories for synthetic aperture radar (SAR)-equipped aircraft poses significant challenges due to terrain constraints, and the need for straight-flight segments to ensure high-quality imaging. Related works usually focus on…

This paper presents two approaches for filter design based on stochastic distances for intensity speckle reduction. A window is defined around each pixel, overlapping samples are compared and only those which pass a goodness-of-fit test are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-21 Leonardo Torres , Alejandro C. Frery