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Contrary to optical images, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are in different electromagnetic spectrum where the human visual system is not accustomed to. Thus, with more and more SAR applications, the demand for enhanced high-quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-23 Dongyang Ao , Corneliu Octavian Dumitru , Gottfried Schwarz , Mihai Datcu

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery enables all-weather, day-and-night Earth observation; however, it remains difficult to interpret due to speckle noise and other intrinsic imaging artifacts. Sentinel-1 (S1) constitutes one of the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Juan Francisco Amieva , Christian Ayala , Roberto Del Prete , Mikel Galar

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

We synthesize both optical RGB and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote sensing images from land cover maps and auxiliary raster data using generative adversarial networks (GANs). In remote sensing, many types of data, such as digital…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Gerald Baier , Antonin Deschemps , Michael Schmitt , Naoto Yokoya

There is rising interest in differentiable rendering, which allows explicitly modeling geometric priors and constraints in optimization pipelines using first-order methods such as backpropagation. Incorporating such domain knowledge can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-09 Michael Wilmanski , Jonathan Tamir

The speckle noise inherent in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery significantly degrades image quality and complicates subsequent analysis. Given that SAR speckle is multiplicative and Gamma-distributed, effectively despeckling SAR…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Junhyuk Heo

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

Speckle reduction is a key step in many remote sensing applications. By strongly affecting synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, it makes them difficult to analyse. Due to the difficulty to model the spatial correlation of speckle, a deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-14 Emanuele Dalsasso , Loïc Denis , Florence Tupin

Semantic segmentation of SAR images has garnered significant attention in remote sensing due to the immunity of SAR sensors to cloudy weather and light conditions. Nevertheless, SAR imagery lacks detailed information and is plagued by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Wang Liu , Zhiyu Wang , Xin Guo , Puhong Duan , Xudong Kang , Shutao Li

Speckle noise is generated along with the SAR imaging mechanism and degrades the quality of SAR images, leading to difficult interpretation. Hence, despeckling is an indispensable step in SAR pre-processing. Fortunately, supervised learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-26 Liang Chen , Yifei Yin , Hao Shi , Jingfei He , Wei Li

Originally developed in fields such as robotics and autonomous driving with image-based navigation in mind, deep learning-based single-image depth estimation (SIDE) has found great interest in the wider image analysis community. Remote…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Michael Recla , Michael Schmitt

This article is written to serve as an introduction and survey of imaging with synthetic aperture radar (SAR). The reader will benefit from having some familiarity with harmonic analysis, electromagnetic radiation, and inverse problems.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-24 Toby Sanders , Christian Dwyer , Rodrigo B. Platte

Despeckling is a crucial noise reduction task in improving the quality of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Directly obtaining noise-free SAR images is a challenging task that has hindered the development of accurate despeckling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Shunya Kato , Masaki Saito , Katsuhiko Ishiguro , Sol Cummings

In this paper, to break the limit of the traditional linear models for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image despeckling, we propose a novel deep learning approach by learning a non-linear end-to-end mapping between the noisy and clean SAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Qiang Zhang , Qiangqiang Yuan , Jie Li , Zhen Yang , Xiaoshuang Ma

Speckle noise, inherent in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, degrades the performance of the various SAR image analysis tasks. Thus, speckle noise reduction is a critical preprocessing step for smoothing homogeneous regions while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Fatih Nar

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

Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) algorithms classify a given Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image into one of the known target classes using a set of training images available for each class. Recently, learning methods have shown to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Tushar Agarwal , Nithin Sugavanam , Emre Ertin

Benefited from the rapid and sustainable development of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors, change detection from SAR images has received increasing attentions over the past few years. Existing unsupervised deep learning-based methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-15 Junjie Wang , Feng Gao , Junyu Dong , Qian Du , Heng-Chao Li

Information extraction from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is heavily impaired by speckle noise, hence despeckling is a crucial preliminary step in scene analysis algorithms. The recent success of deep learning envisions a new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-07 Andrea Bordone Molini , Diego Valsesia , Giulia Fracastoro , Enrico Magli

In Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging, despeckling is very important for image analysis,whereas speckle is known as a kind of multiplicative noise caused by the coherent imaging system. During the past three decades, various algorithms…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Qianqian Zhang , Ruizhi Sun