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With modern defense applications increasingly relying on inexpensive, small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), a major challenge lies in designing intelligent and computationally efficient onboard Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Conor Flynn , Radoslav Ivanov , Birsen Yazici

In this paper we consider physics-informed detection of terrain material change in radar imagery (e.g., shifts in permittivity, roughness or moisture). We propose a lightweight electromagnetic (EM) forward model to simulate bi-temporal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-18 Abdel Hakiem Mohamed Abbas Mohamed Ahmed , Beth Jelfs , Airlie Chapman , Eric Schoof , Christopher Gilliam

It is a challenging problem to detect and recognize targets on complex large-scene Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. Recently developed deep learning algorithms can automatically learn the intrinsic features of SAR images, but still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Siyan Li , Yue Xiao , Yuhang Zhang , Lei Chu , Robert C. Qiu

In synthetic aperture radar (SAR), images are formed by focusing the response of stationary objects to a single spatial location. On the other hand, moving targets cause phase errors in the standard formation of SAR images that cause…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-20 Gregory E. Newstadt , Edmund G. Zelnio , Alfred O. Hero

Change detection (CD) is a fundamental task in Earth observation. While most change detection methods detect all changes, there is a growing need for specialized methods targeting specific changes relevant to particular applications while…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-14 Tahir Ahmad , Sudipan Saha

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

Domain adaptation (DA) strives to mitigate the domain gap between the source domain where a model is trained, and the target domain where the model is deployed. When a deep learning model is deployed on an aerial platform, it may face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Chowdhury Sadman Jahan , Andreas Savakis

The progressive automation of transport promises to enhance safety and sustainability through shared mobility. Like other vehicles and road users, and even more so for such a new technology, it requires monitoring to understand how it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Mohamed Aziz Younes , Nicolas Saunier , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau

In this research, a novel robust change detection approach is presented for imbalanced multi-temporal synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image based on deep learning. Our main contribution is to develop a novel method for generating difference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Xinzheng Zhang , Hang Su , Ce Zhang , Peter M. Atkinson , Xiaoheng Tan , Xiaoping Zeng , Xin Jian

Sequential (online) change-point detection involves continuously monitoring time-series data and triggering an alarm when shifts in the data distribution are detected. We propose an algorithm for real-time identification of alterations in…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-12-16 Yuhan Tian , Abolfazl Safikhani

Simulating realistic radar data has the potential to significantly accelerate the development of data-driven approaches to radar processing. However, it is fraught with difficulty due to the notoriously complex image formation process. Here…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Rob Weston , Oiwi Parker Jones , Ingmar Posner

Automotive synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems are rapidly emerging as a candidate technological solution to enable a high-resolution environment mapping for autonomous driving. Compared to lidars and cameras, automotive-legacy radars…

Scene understanding plays an essential role in enabling autonomous driving and maintaining high standards of performance and safety. To address this task, cameras and laser scanners (LiDARs) have been the most commonly used sensors, with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Yahia Dalbah , Jean Lahoud , Hisham Cholakkal

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) offers all-weather, high-resolution imaging capabilities, but its complex imaging mechanism often poses challenges for interpretation. In response to these limitations, this paper introduces an innovative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Xinyu Bai , Feng Xu

Autonomous vehicles are conceived to provide safe and secure services by validating the safety standards as indicated by SOTIF-ISO/PAS-21448 (Safety of the intended functionality). Keeping in this context, the perception of the environment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Shoaib Azam , Farzeen Munir , Moongu Jeon

Monitoring large areas is presently feasible with high resolution drone cameras, as opposed to time-consuming and expensive ground surveys. In this work we reveal for the first time, the potential of using a state-of-the-art change…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Yura Zharkovsky , Ovadya Menadeva

Benefiting from a relatively larger aperture's angle, and in combination with a wide transmitting bandwidth, near-field synthetic aperture radar (SAR) provides a high-resolution image of a target's scattering distribution-hot spots.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Xu Zhan , Xiaoling Zhang , Wensi Zhang , Jun Shi , Shunjun Wei , Tianjiao Zeng

Change detection plays an important role in most video-based applications. The first stage is to build appropriate background model, which is now becoming increasingly complex as more sophisticated statistical approaches are introduced to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-27 Dong Liang , Shun'ichi Kaneko

With the rapidly growing population of resident space objects (RSOs) in the near-Earth space environment, detailed information about their condition and capabilities is needed to provide Space Domain Awareness (SDA). Space-based sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Morgan Coe , Gruffudd Jones , Leah-Nani Alconcel , Marina Gashinova

Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) in Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images becomes a very challenging problem owing to containing high level noise. In this study, a machine learning-based method is proposed to detect different moving and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Umut Özkaya