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Change detection is one of the fundamental applications of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. However, speckle noise presented in SAR images has a much negative effect on change detection. In this research, a novel two-phase…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Xinzheng Zhang , Guo Liu , Ce Zhang , Peter M Atkinson , Xiaoheng Tan , Xin Jian , Xichuan Zhou , Yongming Li

3D reconstruction of a scene from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images mainly relies on interferometric measurements, which involve strict constraints on the acquisition process. These last years, progress in deep learning has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Emile Barbier--Renard , Florence Tupin , Nicolas Trouvé , Loïc Denis

We propose a novel approach for generating high quality visible-like images from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images using Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) architectures. The proposed approach is based on a cascaded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Puyang Wang , Vishal M. Patel

Change detection from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery is a critical yet challenging task. Existing methods mainly focus on feature extraction in spatial domain, and little attention has been paid to frequency domain. Furthermore, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Xiaofan Qu , Feng Gao , Junyu Dong , Qian Du , Heng-Chao Li

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

Benefited from the rapid and sustainable development of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors, change detection from SAR images has received increasing attentions over the past few years. Existing unsupervised deep learning-based methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-15 Junjie Wang , Feng Gao , Junyu Dong , Qian Du , Heng-Chao Li

Speckle filtering is generally a prerequisite to the analysis of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Tremendous progress has been achieved in the domain of single-image despeckling. Latest techniques rely on deep neural networks to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-08 Inès Meraoumia , Emanuele Dalsasso , Loïc Denis , Rémy Abergel , Florence Tupin

This paper presents a despeckling method for Sentinel-1 GRD images based on the recently proposed framework "SAR2SAR": a self-supervised training strategy. Training the deep neural network on collections of Sentinel 1 GRD images leads to a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-28 Nicolas Gasnier , Emanuele Dalsasso , Loïc Denis , Florence Tupin

The reconstructed images from the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data suffer from multiplicative noise as well as low contrast level. These two factors impact the quality of the SAR images significantly and prevent any attempt to extract…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-05 Shahrokh Hamidi

This paper describes a novel projection algorithm, the Projection Onto Span Algorithm (POSA) for wavelet-based superresolution and removing speckle (in wavelet domain) of unknown variance from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Mario Mastriani

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

Stack filters are a special case of non-linear filters. They have a good performance for filtering images with different types of noise while preserving edges and details. A stack filter decomposes an input image into stacks of binary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-06-11 María Elena Buemi , Alejandro C. Frery , Heitor S. Ramos

Contrary to optical images, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are in different electromagnetic spectrum where the human visual system is not accustomed to. Thus, with more and more SAR applications, the demand for enhanced high-quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-23 Dongyang Ao , Corneliu Octavian Dumitru , Gottfried Schwarz , Mihai Datcu

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

The speckle phenomenon remains a major hurdle for the analysis of SAR images. The development of speckle reduction methods closely follows methodological progress in the field of image restoration. The advent of deep neural networks has…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-29 Loïc Denis , Emanuele Dalsasso , Florence Tupin

Forward modeling of wave scattering and radar imaging mechanisms is the key to information extraction from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Like inverse graphics in optical domain, an inherently-integrated forward-inverse approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Shilei Fu , Feng Xu

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are subject to prominent speckle noise, which is generally considered a purely multiplicative noise process. In theory, this multiplicative noise is that the ratio of the standard deviation to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Mario Mastriani , Alberto E. Giraldez

Images of near-field SAR contains spatial-variant sidelobes and clutter, subduing the image quality. Current image restoration methods are only suitable for small observation angle, due to their assumption of 2D spatial-invariant…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-06 Wensi Zhang , Xiaoling Zhang , Xu Zhan , Yuetonghui Xu , Jun Shi , Shunjun Wei

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image change detection is a vital yet challenging task in the field of remote sensing image analysis. Most previous works adopt a self-supervised method which uses pseudo-labeled samples to guide subsequent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Junjie Wang , Feng Gao , Junyu Dong , Shan Zhang , Qian Du

We present Decomposer, a semi-supervised reconstruction model that decomposes distorted image sequences into their fundamental building blocks - the original image and the applied augmentations, i.e., shadow, light, and occlusions. To solve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Boris Meinardus , Mariusz Trzeciakiewicz , Tim Herzig , Monika Kwiatkowski , Simon Matern , Olaf Hellwich