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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

Satellite imagery has long been an attractive data source that provides a wealth of information on human-inhabited areas. While super resolution satellite images are rapidly becoming available, little study has focused on how to extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Sungwon Han , Donghyun Ahn , Hyunji Cha , Jeasurk Yang , Sungwon Park , Meeyoung Cha

This paper proposes a novel domain adaptation algorithm to handle the challenges posed by the satellite and aerial imagery, and demonstrates its effectiveness on the built-up region segmentation problem. Built-up area estimation is an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Javed Iqbal , Mohsen Ali

High-resolution elevation data is essential for hydrological modeling, hazard assessment, and environmental monitoring; however, globally consistent, fine-scale Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) remain unavailable. Very high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Osher Rafaeli , Tal Svoray , Ariel Nahlieli

Fine classification of city-scale buildings from satellite remote sensing imagery is a crucial research area with significant implications for urban planning, infrastructure development, and population distribution analysis. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zhiyi He , Wei Yao , Jie Shao , Puzuo Wang

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

We present an efficient, elastic 3D LiDAR reconstruction framework which can reconstruct up to maximum LiDAR ranges (60 m) at multiple frames per second, thus enabling robot exploration in large-scale environments. Our approach only…

The analysis of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery is an important step in remote sensing applications, and it is a challenging problem due to its inherent speckle noise. One typical solution is to model the data using the $G_I^0$…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Li Fan , Jeova Farias Sales Rocha Neto

Radar and camera fusion yields robustness in perception tasks by leveraging the strength of both sensors. The typical extracted radar point cloud is 2D without height information due to insufficient antennas along the elevation axis, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Huawei Sun , Hao Feng , Gianfranco Mauro , Julius Ott , Georg Stettinger , Lorenzo Servadei , Robert Wille

This paper presents an algorithm for indoor layout estimation and reconstruction through the fusion of a sequence of captured images and LiDAR data sets. In the proposed system, a movable platform collects both intensity images and 2D LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Jieyu Li , Robert L Stevenson

This paper studies a practically meaningful ship detection problem from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images by the neural network. We broadly extract different types of SAR image features and raise the intriguing question that whether…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Yuwen Deng , Donghai Guan , Yanyu Chen , Weiwei Yuan , Jiemin Ji , Mingqiang Wei

In this paper we tackle a very novel problem, namely height estimation from a single monocular remote sensing image, which is inherently ambiguous, and a technically ill-posed problem, with a large source of uncertainty coming from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Lichao Mou , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Quick and automated earthquake-damaged building detection from post-event satellite imagery is crucial, yet it is challenging due to the scarcity of training data required to develop robust algorithms. This letter presents the first dataset…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-08 Yao Sun , Yi Wang , Michael Eineder

Detecting and localizing objects in space is a fundamental computer vision problem. While much progress has been made to solve 2D object detection, 3D object localization is much less explored and far from solved, especially for open-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Daniel DeTone , Tianwei Shen , Fan Zhang , Lingni Ma , Julian Straub , Richard Newcombe , Jakob Engel

We present a fully automatic approach for reconstructing compact 3D building models from large-scale airborne point clouds. A major challenge of urban reconstruction from airborne LiDAR point clouds lies in that the vertical walls are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Jin Huang , Jantien Stoter , Ravi Peters , Liangliang Nan

We tackle the challenge of LiDAR-based place recognition, which traditionally depends on costly and time-consuming prior 3D maps. To overcome this, we first construct LiRSI-XA dataset, which encompasses approximately $110,000$ remote…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Ziwei Shi , Xiaoran Zhang , Wenjing Xu , Yan Xia , Yu Zang , Siqi Shen , Cheng Wang

Accurate and fine-grained information about the extent of damage to buildings is essential for directing Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Response (HADR) operations in the immediate aftermath of any natural calamity. In recent years, satellite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Rohit Gupta , Mubarak Shah

This paper proposes a method for detecting multiple scatterers (targets) in the elevation direction for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) tomography. The proposed method can resolve closely spaced targets through a twostep procedure. In the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Ahmad Naghavi , Mohammad Sadegh Fazel , Mojtaba Beheshti , Ehsan Yazdian

Vertical beam dropout in spinning LiDAR sensors triggered by hardware aging, dust, snow, fog, or bright reflections removes entire vertical slices from the point cloud and severely degrades 3D perception in autonomous vehicles. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Khalfalla Awedat , Mohamed Abidalrekab , Mohammad El-Yabroudi

Persistent scatterer interferometry and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Tomography are powerful tools for the detection and time monitoring of persistent scatterers. They have been proven to be effective in urban scenarios, especially for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-05 Pia Addabbo , Diego Reale , Antonio Pauciullo , Gianfranco Fornaro , Danilo Orlando