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Coherent illumination reflected by a remote target may be secondarily scattered by intermediate objects or materials. Here we show that phase retrieval on remotely observed images of such scattered fields enables imaging of the illuminated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-24 Qian Huang , Zhipeng Dong , Yuzuru Takashima , Timothy J. Schulz , David J. Brady

We introduce a dispersive point target model based on scattering by a particle in the far-field. The synthetic aperture imaging problem is then expanded to identify these targets and recover their locations and frequency dependent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-08 Arnold D. Kim , Chrysoula Tsogka

Aerial object detection is a challenging task, in which one major obstacle lies in the limitations of large-scale data collection and the long-tail distribution of certain classes. Synthetic data offers a promising solution, especially with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Yanan Jian , Fuxun Yu , Simranjit Singh , Dimitrios Stamoulis

In this paper, we propose graph signal processing based imaging for synthetic aperture radar. We present a modified version of fused least absolute shrinkage and selection operator to cater for graph structure of the radar image. We solve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-08 Shahzad Gishkori , Bernard Mulgrew

The scattering of light observed through the turbid underwater channel is often regarded as the leading challenge when designing underwater electro-optical imaging systems. There have been many approaches to address the effects of…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-17 Chensheng Wu , Robert Lee , Christopher C. Davis

Radar is a low-cost and ubiquitous automotive sensor, but is limited by array resolution and sensitivity when performing direction of arrival analysis. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a class of techniques to improve azimuth resolution…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-16 Leyla A. Kabuli , Griffin Foster

We consider the problem of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging and motion estimation of complex scenes. By complex we mean scenes with multiple targets, stationary and in motion. We use the usual setup with one moving antenna emitting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Liliana Borcea , Thomas Callaghan , George Papanicolaou

Target detection is the front-end stage in any automatic target recognition system for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery (SAR-ATR). The efficacy of the detector directly impacts the succeeding stages in the SAR-ATR processing chain.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-16 Khalid El-Darymli , Peter McGuire , Desmond Power , Cecilia Moloney

Three-dimensional target reconstruction from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery is crucial for interpreting complex scattering information in SAR data. However, the intricate electromagnetic scattering mechanisms inherent to SAR imaging…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Aobo Li , Zhengxin Lei , Jiangtao Wei , Feng Xu

We study an inverse scattering problem for monostatic synthetic aperture radar (SAR): Estimate the wave speed in a heterogeneous, isotropic and nonmagnetic medium probed by waves emitted and measured by a moving antenna. The forward map,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier , Alexander V. Mamonov , Jörn Zimmerling

In this paper we present an experimental setup based on Laser Optical Feedback Imaging (LOFI) and on Synthetic Aperture (SA) with translational scanning by galvanometric mirrors for the purpose of making deep and resolved images through…

We develop a theory for waveform-diverse moving-target synthetic-aperture radar, in the case in which a single moving antenna is used for both transmitting and receiving. We assume that the targets (scattering objects) are moving linearly,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-05-17 Margaret Cheney , Brett Borden

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…

Scattering medium brings great difficulties to locate and image planar objects especially when the object has a large depth. In this letter, a novel learning-based method is presented to locate and image the object hidden behind a thin…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-01 Shuo Zhu , Enlai Guo , Qianying Cui , Dongliang Zheng , Lianfa Bai , Jing Han

A radar system emits probing signals and records the reflections. Estimating the relative angles, delays, and Doppler shifts from the received signals allows to determine the locations and velocities of objects. However, due to practical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Reinhard Heckel

Along with the improvement of radar technologies, Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Inverse SAR (ISAR) has come to be an active research area. SAR/ISAR are radar techniques to generate a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Carlos Pena-Caballero , Elifaleth Cantu , Jesus Rodriguez , Adolfo Gonzales , Osvaldo Castellanos , Angel Cantu , Megan Strait , Jae Son , Dongchul Kim

In this work, we consider the target detection problem in a sensing architecture where the radar is aided by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), that can be modeled as an array of sub-wavelength small reflective elements capable of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-14 Stefano Buzzi , Emanuele Grossi , Marco Lops , Luca Venturino

An innovative inverse scattering (IS) method is proposed for the quantitative imaging of pixel-sparse scatterers buried within a lossy half-space. On the one hand, such an approach leverages on the wide-band nature of ground penetrating…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Marco Salucci , Nicola Anselmi

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

When waves propagate through a complex medium, they undergo several scattering events. This phenomenon is detrimental to imaging, as it causes full blurring of the image. Here we describe a method for detecting, localizing and…