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Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery provides robust environmental and temporal coverage (e.g., during clouds, seasons, day-night cycles), yet its noise and unique structural patterns pose interpretation challenges, especially for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Jeonghyeok Do , Jaehyup Lee , Munchurl Kim

Object detection and classification using aerial images is a challenging task as the information regarding targets are not abundant. Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) images can be used for Automatic Target Recognition(ATR) systems as it can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Sumanth Udupa , Aniruddh Sikdar , Suresh Sundaram

Existing deep learning-based methods can capture shared features from optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images for spatial alignment. However, optical-SAR registration remains challenging under large geometric deformations, because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Zhuoyu Cai , Dou Quan , Ning Huyan , Pei He , Shuang Wang , Licheng Jiao

Knowledge distillation (KD)transfers the dark knowledge from a complex teacher to a compact student. However, heterogeneous architecture distillation, such as Vision Transformer (ViT) to ResNet18, faces challenges due to differences in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Liuchi Xu , Hao Zheng , Lu Wang , Lisheng Xu , Jun Cheng

Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) aims to form class-agnostic models segmenting unseen classes with only a handful of annotations. Previous methods limited to the semantic feature and prototype representation suffer from coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Bohao Peng , Zhuotao Tian , Xiaoyang Wu , Chengyao Wang , Shu Liu , Jingyong Su , Jiaya Jia

Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims to transfer knowledge in a teacher-student framework, by providing the predictions of the teacher network to the student network in the training stage to help the student network generalize better. It can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-25 SeongUk Park , Nojun Kwak

Semantic segmentation in remote sensing images is crucial for various applications, yet its performance is heavily reliant on large-scale, high-quality pixel-wise annotations, which are notoriously expensive and time-consuming to acquire.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Jiayi Song , Kaiyu Li , Xiangyong Cao , Deyu Meng

Synthetic aperture radar has the ability to work 24/7 and 24/7, and has high application value. Propose a new SAR image matching algorithm based on multi class features, mainly using two different types of features: straight lines and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Mazhi Qiang , Fengming Zhou

Knowledge distillation is a popular technique for transferring the knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student model by mimicking. However, distillation by directly aligning the feature maps between teacher and student may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Ziwei Liu , Yongtao Wang , Xiaojie Chu

In this paper, we investigate the knowledge distillation (KD) strategy for object detection and propose an effective framework applicable to both homogeneous and heterogeneous student-teacher pairs. The conventional feature imitation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Lewei Yao , Renjie Pi , Hang Xu , Wei Zhang , Zhenguo Li , Tong Zhang

Efficient object detection methods have recently received great attention in remote sensing. Although deep convolutional networks often have excellent detection accuracy, their deployment on resource-limited edge devices is difficult.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Jocelyn Chanussot , Huiyu Zhou , Yue Lu

Effective oil spill segmentation in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images is critical for marine oil pollution cleanup, and proper image representation is helpful for accurate image segmentation. In this paper, we propose an effective oil…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Fang Chen , Heiko Balzter , Peng Ren , Huiyu Zhou

In the training of deep learning models, how the model parameters are initialized greatly affects the model performance, sample efficiency, and convergence speed. Representation learning for model initialization has recently been actively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Keumgang Cha , Junghoon Seo , Yeji Choi

RGB cameras excel at capturing rich texture details with high spatial resolution, whereas event cameras offer exceptional temporal resolution and a high dynamic range (HDR). Leveraging their complementary strengths can substantially enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Yao Deng , Xian Zhong , Wenxuan Liu , Zhaofei Yu , Jingling Yuan , Tiejun Huang

Lifelong learning aims to preserve knowledge acquired from previous tasks while incorporating knowledge from a sequence of new tasks. However, most prior work explores only streams of homogeneous tasks (\textit{e.g.}, only classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Xuerui Zhang , Xuehao Wang , Zhan Zhuang , Linglan Zhao , Ziyue Li , Xinmin Zhang , Zhihuan Song , Yu Zhang

Feature representation is an important aspect of remote-sensing based image classification. While deep convolutional neural networks are able to effectively amalgamate information, large numbers of parameters often make learned features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Joshua Peeples , Sarah Walker , Connor McCurley , Alina Zare , James Keller , Weihuang Xu

Transvaginal ultrasound is a critical imaging modality for evaluating cervical anatomy and detecting physiological changes. However, accurate segmentation of cervical structures remains challenging due to low contrast, shadow artifacts, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Tran Quoc Khanh Le , Nguyen Lan Vi Vu , Ha-Hieu Pham , Xuan-Loc Huynh , Tien-Huy Nguyen , Minh Huu Nhat Le , Quan Nguyen , Hien D. Nguyen

Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) aims to form class-agnostic models segmenting unseen classes with only a handful of annotations. Previous methods limited to the semantic feature and prototype representation suffer from coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Bohao Peng , Zhuotao Tian , Xiaoyang Wu , Chenyao Wang , Shu Liu , Jingyong Su , Jiaya Jia

Optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image registration is crucial for multi-modal image fusion and applications. However, several challenges limit the performance of existing deep learning-based methods in cross-modal image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Wei Wang , Dou Quan , Ning Huyan , Chonghua Lv , Shuang Wang , Yunan Li , Licheng Jiao

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) target detection has long been impeded by inherent speckle noise and the prevalence of diminutive, ambiguous targets. While deep neural networks have advanced SAR target detection, their intrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yimian Dai , Minrui Zou , Yuxuan Li , Xiang Li , Kang Ni , Jian Yang