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Image denoising is an important low-level computer vision task, which aims to reconstruct a noise-free and high-quality image from a noisy image. With the development of deep learning, convolutional neural network (CNN) has been gradually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Chao Yao , Shuo Jin , Meiqin Liu , Xiaojuan Ban

Hyperspectral images are crucial for many research works. Spectral super-resolution (SSR) is a method used to obtain high spatial resolution (HR) hyperspectral images from HR multispectral images. Traditional SSR methods include…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-09 Jiang He , Jie Li , Qiangqiang Yuan , Huanfeng Shen , Liangpei Zhang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been extensively and successfully applied to the task of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image change detection. However, conventional convolutional layers are inherently limited by their local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Baogui Huan , Chuanzheng Gong , Dezhong Chen , Feng Gao , Junyu Dong , Qian Du

Delayed target response in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging can be obscured by the range-delay ambiguity and speckle. To analyze the range-delay ambiguity, one extends the standard SAR formulation and allows both the target…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Mikhail Gilman , Semyon Tsynkov

This manuscript introduces SARFormer, a modified Vision Transformer (ViT) architecture designed for processing one or multiple synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Given the complex image geometry of SAR data, we propose an acquisition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Jonathan Prexl , Michael Recla , Michael Schmitt

The analysis of ocean surface is widely performed using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery as it yields information for wide areas under challenging weather conditions, during day or night, etc. Speckle noise constitutes however the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-15 Oktay Karakuş , Igor Rizaev , Alin Achim

A deep neural networks based method is proposed to convert single polarization grayscale SAR image to fully polarimetric. It consists of two components: a feature extractor network to extract hierarchical multi-scale spatial features of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Qian Song , Feng Xu , Ya-Qiu Jin

Reducing speckle and limiting the variations of the physical parameters in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images is often a key-step to fully exploit the potential of such data. Nowadays, deep learning approaches produce state of the art…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-25 Inès Meraoumia , Emanuele Dalsasso , Loïc Denis , Florence Tupin

Deep learning has demonstrated its power in image rectification by leveraging the representation capacity of deep neural networks via supervised training based on a large-scale synthetic dataset. However, the model may overfit the synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Jinlong Fan , Jing Zhang , Dacheng Tao

Traditional change detection methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) face the challenges of speckle noise and deformation sensitivity for synthetic aperture radar images. To mitigate these issues, we proposed a Multiscale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Yunhao Gao , Feng Gao , Junyu Dong , Heng-Chao Li

Coherent imaging systems, such as medical ultrasound and synthetic aperture radar (SAR), are subject to corruption from speckle due to sub-resolution scatterers. Since speckle is multiplicative in nature, the constituent image regions…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Soumee Guha , Scott T. Acton

Image of a scene captured through a piece of transparent and reflective material, such as glass, is often spoiled by a superimposed layer of reflection image. While separating the reflection from a familiar object in an image is mentally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Zhixiang Chi , Xiaolin Wu , Xiao Shu , Jinjin Gu

Compared to CNN-based methods, Transformer-based methods achieve impressive image restoration outcomes due to their abilities to model remote dependencies. However, how to apply Transformer-based methods to the field of blind…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Qingguo Liu , Pan Gao , Kang Han , Ningzhong Liu , Wei Xiang

Many current neural networks for medical imaging generalise poorly to data unseen during training. Such behaviour can be caused by networks overfitting easy-to-learn, or statistically dominant, features while disregarding other potentially…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-05 Joona Pohjonen , Carolin Stürenberg , Antti Rannikko , Tuomas Mirtti , Esa Pitkänen

In this paper, we propose a stereo radargrammetry method using deep learning from airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. Deep learning-based methods are considered to suffer less from geometric image modulation, while there is no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Tatsuya Sasayama , Shintaro Ito , Koichi Ito , Takafumi Aoki

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) to electro-optical (EO) image translation is a fundamental task in remote sensing that can enrich the dataset by fusing information from different sources. Recently, many methods have been proposed to tackle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jun Yu , Shenshen Du , Guochen Xie , Renjie Lu , Pengwei Li , Zhongpeng Cai , Keda Lu

Supervised learning with a convolutional neural network is recognized as a powerful means of image restoration. However, most such methods have been designed for application to grayscale and/or color images; therefore, they have limited…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Ryuji Imamura , Tatsuki Itasaka , Masahiro Okuda

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) provides all-weather, high-resolution imaging capabilities, but its unique imaging mechanism often requires expert interpretation, limiting its widespread applicability. Translating SAR images into more easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Xinyu Bai , Feng Xu

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry (InSAR) is performed using repeat-pass geometry. InSAR technique is used to estimate the topographic reconstruction of the earth surface. The main problem of the range-Doppler focusing technique…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-15 Gabriele Costante , Thomas A. Ciarfuglia , Filippo Biondi

The log-ratio (LR) operator has been widely employed to generate the difference image for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image change detection. However, the difference image generated by this pixel-wise operator can be subject to SAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Rongfang Wang , Jia-Wei Chen , Yule Wang , Licheng Jiao , Mi Wang