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Huge imbalance of different scenes' sample numbers seriously reduces Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) ship detection accuracy. Thus, to solve this problem, this letter proposes a Balance Scene Learning Mechanism (BSLM) for offshore and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Tianwen Zhang , Xiaoling Zhang , Jun Shi , Shunjun Wei , Jianguo Wang , Jianwei Li , Hao Su , Yue Zhou

Synthetic aperture radar automatic target recognition (SAR ATR) has seen significant performance improvements with deep learning. However, the black-box nature of deep SAR ATR introduces low confidence and high risks in decision-critical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 Chenwei Wang , Renjie Xu , Congwen Wu , Cunyi Yin , Ziyun Liao , Deqing Mao , Sitong Zhang , Hong Yan

Automatic target recognition (ATR) is an important use case for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image interpretation. Recent years have seen significant advancements in SAR ATR technology based on semi-supervised learning. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Xinzheng Zhang , Yuqing Luo , Guopeng Li

Recent advances in deep learning architectures have enabled efficient and accurate classification of pre-trained targets in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. Nevertheless, the presence of unknown targets in real battlefield scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Kyung-hwan Lee , Kyung-tae Kim

With the recent advances of deep learning, automatic target recognition (ATR) of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has achieved superior performance. By not being limited to the target category, the SAR ATR system could benefit from the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Chenwei Wang , Jifang Pei , Zhiyong Wang , Yulin Huang , Junjie Wu , Haiguang Yang , Jianyu Yang

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging, celebrated for its high resolution, all-weather capability, and day-night operability, is indispensable for maritime applications. However, ship detection in SAR imagery faces significant challenges,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Congxia Zhao , Xiongjun Fu , Jian Dong , Shen Cao , Chunyan Zhang

In this paper, we suggest a way, how to use SIFT and SURF algorithms to extract the image features for anomaly detection. We use those feature vectors to train various classifiers on a real-world dataset in the semi -supervised (with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Simon Bilik , Karel Horak

DL based Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) ship detection has tremendous advantages in numerous areas. However, it still faces some problems, such as the lack of prior knowledge, which seriously affects detection accuracy. In order to solve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Han Ke , Xiao Ke , Ye Yan , Rui Liu , Jinpeng Yang , Tianwen Zhang , Xu Zhan , Xiaowo Xu

One of the ultimate goals of representation learning is to achieve compactness within a class and well-separability between classes. Many outstanding metric-based and prototype-based methods following the Expectation-Maximization paradigm,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Yanqi Ge , Qiang Nie , Ye Huang , Yong Liu , Chengjie Wang , Feng Zheng , Wen Li , Lixin Duan

In recent years, impressive performance of deep learning technology has been recognized in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Automatic Target Recognition (ATR). Since a large amount of annotated data is required in this technique, it poses a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Yikui Zhai , Wenlve Zhou , Bing Sun , Jingwen Li , Qirui Ke , Zilu Ying , Junying Gan , Chaoyun Mai , Ruggero Donida Labati , Vincenzo Piuri , Fabio Scotti

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved high performance in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR). However, the performance of CNNs depends heavily on a large amount of training data. The insufficiency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Chenwei Wang , Xiaoyu Liu , Yulin Huang , Siyi Luo , Jifang Pei , Jianyu Yang , Deqing Mao

Due to its all-weather and day-and-night capabilities, Synthetic Aperture Radar imagery is essential for various applications such as disaster management, earth monitoring, change detection and target recognition. However, the scarcity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Max Muzeau , Joana Frontera-Pons , Chengfang Ren , Jean-Philippe Ovarlez

Deep learning methods have made significant progress in ship detection in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. The pretraining technique is usually adopted to support deep neural networks-based SAR ship detectors due to the scarce labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Wei Bao , Meiyu Huang , Yaqin Zhang , Yao Xu , Xuejiao Liu , Xueshuang Xiang

This paper proposes a novel generic one-class feature learning method based on intra-class splitting. In one-class classification, feature learning is challenging, because only samples of one class are available during training. Hence,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Patrick Schlachter , Yiwen Liao , Bin Yang

The acquisition of high-quality labeled synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data is challenging due to the demanding requirement for expert knowledge. Consequently, the presence of unreliable noisy labels is unavoidable, which results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yimin Fu , Zhunga Liu , Dongxiu Guo , Longfei Wang

Aircraft target detection in SAR images is a challenging task due to the discrete scattering points and severe background clutter interference. Currently, methods with convolution-based or transformer-based paradigms cannot adequately…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-18 Zhou Jie , Xiao Chao , Peng Bo , Liu Zhen , Liu Li , Liu Yongxiang , Li Xiang

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) constitutes a fundamental asset for wide-areas monitoring with high-resolution requirements. The first SAR sensors have given rise to coarse coastal and maritime monitoring applications, including oil spill,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-15 Leonardo De Laurentiis , Andrea Pomente , Fabio Del Frate , Giovanni Schiavon

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is considered being a good option for earth observation with its unique advantages. In this paper, we proposed an adaptive ship detector using full-polarization SAR images. First, by thoroughly investigating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-08 Chuan Zhang , Gui Gao , Linlin Zhang , C. Chen , S. Gao , Libo Yao , Shiquan Gou

We propose a new convolutional neural network (CNN) which performs coarse and fine segmentation for end-to-end synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR) system. In recent years, many CNNs for SAR ATR using deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Hidetoshi Furukawa

There have been intensive research interests in ship detection and segmentation due to high demands on a wide range of civil applications in the last two decades. However, existing approaches, which are mainly based on statistical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Alexander Kadyrov , Hui Yu , Honghai Liu