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Despite the advantages of all-weather and all-day high-resolution imaging, SAR remote sensing images are much less viewed and used by general people because human vision is not adapted to microwave scattering phenomenon. However, expert…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Shilei Fu , Feng Xu , Ya-Qiu Jin

Single-source remote sensing object detection using optical or SAR images struggles in complex environments. Optical images offer rich textural details but are often affected by low-light, cloud-obscured, or low-resolution conditions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Chao Wang , Wei Lu , Xiang Li , Jian Yang , Lei Luo

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a tomographic sensor that measures 2D slices of the 3D spatial Fourier transform of the scene. In many operational scenarios, the measured set of 2D slices does not fill the 3D space in the Fourier domain,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Nithin Sugavanam , Emre Ertin

We explore the "hidden" ability of large-scale pre-trained image generation models, such as Stable Diffusion and Imagen, in non-visible light domains, taking Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data for a case study. Due to the inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Zichen Tian , Zhaozheng Chen , Qianru Sun

Image denoising is a fundamental problem in image processing whose primary objective is to remove the noise while preserving the original image structure. In this work, we proposed a new architecture for image denoising. We have used…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-25 Sutanu Bera , Avisek Lahiri , Prabir Kumar Biswas

In this paper, we tackle the challenging task of Panoramic Image-to-Image translation (Pano-I2I) for the first time. This task is difficult due to the geometric distortion of panoramic images and the lack of a panoramic image dataset with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Soohyun Kim , Junho Kim , Taekyung Kim , Hwan Heo , Seungryong Kim , Jiyoung Lee , Jin-Hwa Kim

This letter presents a method of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image despeckling aimed to preserve the detail information while suppressing speckle noise. This method combines the nonlocal self-similarity partition and a proposed modified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Chengwei Sang , Hong Sun , Quisong Xia

Remote sensing provides valuable information about objects or areas from a distance in either active (e.g., RADAR and LiDAR) or passive (e.g., multispectral and hyperspectral) modes. The quality of data acquired by remotely sensed imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-22 Benhood Rasti , Yi Chang , Emanuele Dalsasso , Loïc Denis , Pedram Ghamisi

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

This letter proposes a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image registration method named Feature-Area Optimization (FAO). First, the traditional area-based optimization model is reconstructed and decomposed into three key but uncertain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-19 Fuqiang Liu , Fukun Bi , Liang Chen , Hao Shi , Wei Liu

Current methods for single-image depth estimation use training datasets with real image-depth pairs or stereo pairs, which are not easy to acquire. We propose a framework, trained on synthetic image-depth pairs and unpaired real images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Chuanxia Zheng , Tat-Jen Cham , Jianfei Cai

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations, limiting deployment in safety-critical applications such as synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR). Randomized smoothing improves robustness by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Daniel Brignac , Fengwei Tian , Banafsheh Latibari , Abhijit Mahalanobis , Ravi Tandon

Speckle is a multiplicative noise which affects all coherent imaging modalities including Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. The presence of speckle degrades the image quality and adversely affects the performance of SAR image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Malsha V. Perera , Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara , Vishal M. Patel

Semantic Image Synthesis (SIS) is a subclass of image-to-image translation where a photorealistic image is synthesized from a segmentation mask. SIS has mostly been addressed as a supervised problem. However, state-of-the-art methods depend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 George Eskandar , Mohamed Abdelsamad , Karim Armanious , Bin Yang

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are affected by a spatially-correlated and signal-dependent noise called speckle, which is very severe and may hinder image exploitation. Despeckling is an important task that aims at removing such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Giulia Fracastoro , Enrico Magli , Giovanni Poggi , Giuseppe Scarpa , Diego Valsesia , Luisa Verdoliva

Recent deep learning-based image denoising methods have shown impressive performance; however, many lack the flexibility to adjust the denoising strength based on the noise levels, camera settings, and user preferences. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Youngjin Oh , Junhyeong Kwon , Keuntek Lee , Nam Ik Cho

Satellite image inpainting is a crucial task in remote sensing, where accurately restoring missing or occluded regions is essential for robust image analysis. In this paper, we propose KAO, a novel framework that utilizes Kernel-Adaptive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Teerapong Panboonyuen

Image-to-image (I2I) translation is an established way of translating data from one domain to another but the usability of the translated images in the target domain when working with such dissimilar domains as the SAR/optical satellite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Alejandro D. Mousist

A sparsity-driven algorithm of inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) imaging is proposed. Based on the parametric sparse representation of the received ISAR signal, the problem of ISAR image formation is converted into the joint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-08 Gang Li , Wei Rao , Xiqin Wang , Xiang-Gen Xia

Cameras capture sensor RAW images and transform them into pleasant RGB images, suitable for the human eyes, using their integrated Image Signal Processor (ISP). Numerous low-level vision tasks operate in the RAW domain (e.g. image…