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Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging is capable of observing objects in nearly all weather and illumination conditions and has become an indispensable means of information acquisition for analysis and recognition of objects and scenes.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Jie Zhou , Yongxiang Liu , Li Liu , Weijie Li , Bowen Peng , Yafei Song , Gangyao Kuang , Xiang Li

It is a challenging problem to detect and recognize targets on complex large-scene Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. Recently developed deep learning algorithms can automatically learn the intrinsic features of SAR images, but still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Siyan Li , Yue Xiao , Yuhang Zhang , Lei Chu , Robert C. Qiu

Despite the remarkable progress in synthetic aperture radar automatic target recognition (SAR ATR), recent efforts have concentrated on detecting and classifying a specific category, e.g., vehicles, ships, airplanes, or buildings. One of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Weijie Li , Wei Yang , Yuenan Hou , Li Liu , Yongxiang Liu , Xiang Li

Automatic target recognition (ATR) based on inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) images, which is extensively utilized to surveil environment in military and civil fields, must be high-precision and reliable. Photonic technologies'…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-06 Xiuting Zou , Anyi Deng , Yiheng Hu , Shiyu Hua , Linbo Zhang , Shaofu Xu , Weiwen Zou

Deep learning technologies have significantly improved performance in the field of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image target recognition compared to traditional methods. However, the inherent ``black box" property of deep learning models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Zhuoxuan Li , Xu Zhang , Shumeng Yu , Haipeng Wang

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

Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) is a category of computer vision algorithms which attempts to recognize targets on data obtained from different sensors. ATR algorithms are extensively used in real-world scenarios such as military and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Bardia Safaei , Vibashan VS , Celso M. de Melo , Shuowen Hu , Vishal M. Patel

This report deals with translation invariance of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for automatic target recognition (ATR) from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery. In particular, the translation invariance of CNNs for SAR ATR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Hidetoshi Furukawa

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging systems operate by emitting radar signals from a moving object, such as a satellite, towards the target of interest. Reflected radar echoes are received and later used by image formation algorithms to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-02 Andrew Rittenbach , John Paul Walters

Rapid assessment after a natural disaster is key for prioritizing emergency resources. In the case of landslides, rapid assessment involves determining the extent of the area affected and measuring the size and location of individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Vanessa Böhm , Wei Ji Leong , Ragini Bal Mahesh , Ioannis Prapas , Edoardo Nemni , Freddie Kalaitzis , Siddha Ganju , Raul Ramos-Pollan

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

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and optical image registration is essential for remote sensing data fusion, with applications in military reconnaissance, environmental monitoring, and disaster management. However, challenges arise from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Wenfei Zhang , Ruipeng Zhao , Yongxiang Yao , Yi Wan , Peihao Wu , Jiayuan Li , Yansheng Li , Yongjun Zhang

Reliable automatic target segmentation in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery has played an important role in the SAR fields. Different from the traditional methods, Spectral Residual (SR) and CFAR detector, with the recent adavance in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-16 Chenwei Wang , Jifang Pei , Yulin Huang , Jianyu Yang

This work aims to train Deep Learning models to perform Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. To circumvent the lack of real labelled measurements, we resort to synthetic data produced by SAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Benjamin Camus , Julien Houssay , Corentin Le Barbu , Eric Monteux , Cédric Saleun , Christian Cochin

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) is a key technique used in military applications like remote-sensing image recognition. Vision Transformers (ViTs) are the current state-of-the-art in various computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Sachini Wickramasinghe , Dhruv Parikh , Bingyi Zhang , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna , Carl Busart

At present, the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image classification method based on convolution neural network (CNN) has faced some problems such as poor noise resistance and generalization ability. Spiking neural network (SNN) is one of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Jiankun Chen , Xiaolan Qiu , Chibiao Ding , Yirong Wu

We consider the problem in Synthetic Aperture RADAR (SAR) of identifying and classifying objects located on the ground by means of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Specifically, we adopt a single scattering approximation to classify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Romina Gaburro , Patrick Healy , Shraddha Naidu , Clifford Nolan

Satellite-based Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images can be used as a source of remote sensed imagery regardless of cloud cover and day-night cycle. However, the speckle noise and varying image acquisition conditions pose a challenge for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Janne Alatalo , Tuomo Sipola , Mika Rantonen

Attention mechanisms are critically important in the advancement of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR) systems. Traditional SAR ATR models often struggle with the noisy nature of the SAR data, frequently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Jacob Fein-Ashley , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna

Utilizing electromagnetic scattering information for SAR data interpretation is currently a prominent research focus in the SAR interpretation domain. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) can effectively integrate domain-specific physical knowledge…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-14 Xuying Xiong , Xinyu Zhang , Weidong Jiang , Li Liu , Yongxiang Liu , Tianpeng Liu