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Sonar imaging has seen vast improvements over the last few decades due in part to advances in synthetic aperture Sonar (SAS). Sophisticated classification techniques can now be used in Sonar automatic target recognition (ATR) to locate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-22 John McKay , Vishal Monga , Raghu G. Raj

Space-time adaptive processing (STAP) algorithms with coprime arrays can provide good clutter suppression potential with low cost in airborne radar systems as compared with their uniform linear arrays counterparts. However, the performance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-07 X. Wang , Z. Yang , J. Huang , R. C. de Lamare

The design of image reconstruction algorithms for near-range handheld synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems has gained increasing popularity due to the promising performance of portable millimeter-wave (MMW) imaging devices in various…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Lei Wang , Xianxun Yao , Tiancheng Song , Guolin Sun

Synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) requires precise time-of-flight measurements of the transmitted/received waveform to produce well-focused imagery. It is not uncommon for errors in these measurements to be present resulting in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Isaac D. Gerg , Vishal Monga

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery can provide useful information in a multitude of applications, including climate change, environmental monitoring, meteorology, high dimensional mapping, ship monitoring, or planetary exploration. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Oktay Karakuş , Alin Achim

This paper addresses the problem of single snapshot Direction-of-Arrival (DOA) estimation, which is of great importance in a wide-range of applications including automotive radar. A popular approach to achieving high angular resolution when…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Yinyan Bu , Robin Rajamäki , Anand Dabak , Rajan Narasimha , Anil Mani , Piya Pal

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

Synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) measures a scene from multiple views in order to increase the resolution of reconstructed imagery. Image reconstruction methods for SAS coherently combine measurements to focus acoustic energy onto the scene.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-19 Albert W. Reed , Juhyeon Kim , Thomas Blanford , Adithya Pediredla , Daniel C. Brown , Suren Jayasuriya

A ray-tracing (RT) enhanced back-projection algorithm (RT-BPA) for microwave imaging in multipath environments is presented. By tightly incorporating the concept of ray-tracing into a generalized version of traditional BPA, this method…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Han Na , Quanfeng Wang , Matthias Saurer , Meisong Tong , Thomas F. Eibert

In Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR), random missing entries of the received radar echo matrix deteriorate the imaging quality, compromising target distinction from the background. Compressive sensing techniques or matrix completion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Necmettin Bayar , Isin Erer , Deniz Kumlu

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) provides all-weather, high-resolution imaging capabilities, but its unique imaging mechanism often requires expert interpretation, limiting its widespread applicability. Translating SAR images into more easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Xinyu Bai , Feng Xu

With modern defense applications increasingly relying on inexpensive, autonomous drones, lies the major challenge of designing computationally and memory-efficient onboard algorithms to fulfill mission objectives. This challenge is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Conor Flynn , Radoslav Ivanov , Birsen Yazici

This paper investigates the joint optimization of trajectory planning and resource allocation for a high-altitude platform stations synthetic aperture radar (HAPs-SAR) system. To support real-time sensing and conserve the limited energy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Bang Huang , Kihong Park , Xiaowei Pang , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Conventional focusing methods for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) employ block processing efficiently but remain latency-heavy processes that prevent the realisation of a closed-loop cognitive SAR vision system. We present the first Online…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Sebastian Fieldhouse , Roberto Del Prete , Gabriele Daga , Nathaniel Rensly , Gabriele Meoni , Kea-Tiong Tang

Reconfigurable distributed antennas and reflecting surface (RDARS) has emerged as a promising architecture for communication and sensing performance enhancement. In particular, the new selection gain can be achieved by leveraging the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Chengwang Ji , Haiquan Lu , Qiaoyan Peng , Jintao Wang , Shaodan Ma

Image super-resolution (SR) is an underdetermined inverse problem, where a large number of plausible high-resolution images can explain the same downsampled image. Most current single image SR methods use empirical risk minimisation, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Casper Kaae Sønderby , Jose Caballero , Lucas Theis , Wenzhe Shi , Ferenc Huszár

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

Conventional Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems are limited in their ability to satisfy the increasing requirement for improved spatial resolution and wider coverage. The demand for high resolution requires high sampling rates, while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Kfir Aberman , Yonina C. Eldar

Synthetic aperture radar tomography (TomoSAR) baseline optimization technique is capable of reducing system complexity and improving the temporal coherence of data, which has become an important research in the field of TomoSAR. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-02 Pengyu Jiang , Zhe Zhang , Bingchen Zhang , Zhongqiu Xu

Automotive targets undergoing turns in road junctions offer large synthetic apertures over short dwell times to automotive radars that can be exploited for obtaining fine cross-range resolution. Likewise, the wide bandwidths of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-28 Shobha Sundar Ram