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Image matching is a fundamental and critical task of multisource remote sensing image applications. However, remote sensing images are susceptible to various noises. Accordingly, how to effectively achieve accurate matching in noise images…
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Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image change detection is a critical yet challenging task in the field of remote sensing image analysis. The task is non-trivial due to the following challenges: Firstly, intrinsic speckle noise of SAR images…
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In many advanced video based applications background modeling is a pre-processing step to eliminate redundant data, for instance in tracking or video surveillance applications. Over the past years background subtraction is usually based on…
Change detection (CD) is to decouple object changes (i.e., object missing or appearing) from background changes (i.e., environment variations) like light and season variations in two images captured in the same scene over a long time span,…
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