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Sparsity-regularized synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging framework has shown its remarkable performance to generate a feature enhanced high resolution image, in which a sparsity-inducing regularizer is involved by exploiting the sparsity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Biao Hou , Zaidao Wen , Licheng Jiao , Qian Wu

Object detection in sonar images is crucial for underwater robotics applications including autonomous navigation and resource exploration. However, complex noise patterns inherent in sonar imagery, particularly speckle, reverberation, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ziyu Wang , Tao Xue , Jingyuan Li , Haibin Zhang , Zhiqiang Xu , Gaofei Xu , Zhen Wang , Yanbin Wang , Zhiquan Liu

Shadows cast by terrain and tall structures remain a major obstacle for high-resolution satellite image analysis, degrading classification, detection, and 3D reconstruction performance. Public resources offering geometry-consistent paired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Lorenzo Beltrame , Jules Salzinger , Filip Svoboda , Phillipp Fanta-Jende , Jasmin Lampert , Radu Timofte , Marco Körner

The earlier works in the context of low-rank-sparse-decomposition (LRSD)-driven stationary synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging have shown significant improvement in the reconstruction-decomposition process. Neither of the proposed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-12 Hamid Reza Hashempour , Majid Moradikia , Hamed Bastami , Ahmed Abdelhadi , Mojtaba Soltanalian

In the field of remote sensing, the scarcity of stereo-matched and particularly lack of accurate ground truth data often hinders the training of deep neural networks. The use of synthetically generated images as an alternative, alleviates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Vasudha Venkatesan , Daniel Panangian , Mario Fuentes Reyes , Ksenia Bittner

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

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

Recently, satellites with high temporal resolution have fostered wide attention in various practical applications. Due to limitations of bandwidth and hardware cost, however, the spatial resolution of such satellites is considerably low,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Jiaming Wang , Zhenfeng Shao , Tao Lu , Xiao Huang , Ruiqian Zhang , Yu Wang

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are usually degraded by a multiplicative noise known as speckle which makes processing and interpretation of SAR images difficult. In this paper, we introduce a transformer-based network for SAR image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Malsha V. Perera , Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara , Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Vishal M. Patel

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-19 Yunhao Gao , Feng Gao , Junyu Dong , Qian Du , Heng-Chao Li

The analysis of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery is an important step in remote sensing applications, and it is a challenging problem due to its inherent speckle noise. One typical solution is to model the data using the $G_I^0$…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Li Fan , Jeova Farias Sales Rocha Neto

The core challenge of hyperspectral image denoising is striking the right balance between data fidelity and noise prior modeling. Most existing methods place too much emphasis on the intrinsic priors of the image while overlooking diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Xuelin Xie , Xiliang Lu , Zhengshan Wang , Yang Zhang , Long Chen

Cross-modal image-to-image translation among Electro-Optical (EO), Infrared (IR), and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensors is essential for comprehensive multi-modal aerial-view analysis. However, translating between these modalities is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Zhenyuan Chen , Guanyuan Shen , Feng Zhang

In this article, we introduce a novel algorithm for efficient near-field synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging for irregular scanning geometries. With the emergence of fifth-generation (5G) millimeter-wave (mmWave) devices, near-field SAR…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-04 Josiah Smith , Murat Torlak

In this paper, we develop a novel super-resolution algorithm for near-field synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) under irregular scanning geometries. As fifth-generation (5G) millimeter-wave (mmWave) devices are becoming increasingly affordable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Josiah Smith , Yusef Alimam , Geetika Vedula , Murat Torlak

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

Array synthetic aperture radar (SAR) three-dimensional (3D) imaging can obtain 3D information of the target region, which is widely used in environmental monitoring and scattering information measurement. In recent years, with the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Yangyang Wang , Xu Zhan , Jing Gao , Jinjie Yao , Shunjun Wei , JianSheng Bai

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

Real-world imaging systems acquire measurements that are degraded by noise, optical aberrations, and other imperfections that make image processing for human viewing and higher-level perception tasks challenging. Conventional cameras…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Steven Diamond , Vincent Sitzmann , Frank Julca-Aguilar , Stephen Boyd , Gordon Wetzstein , Felix Heide

Incoherent processing for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a promising approach that enables low implementation costs, simplified hardware designs and operations in high frequency spectrum compared to the conventional imaging methods using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-30 Samia Kazemi , Bariscan Yonel , Birsen Yazici