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The detection of early signs of volcanic unrest preceding an eruption, in the form of ground deformation in Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data is critical for assessing volcanic hazard. In this work we treat this as a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-17 Nikolaos Ioannis Bountos , Dimitrios Michail , Ioannis Papoutsis

Deep learning (DL) has emerged as a powerful tool for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) ship classification. This survey comprehensively analyzes the diverse DL techniques employed in this domain. We identify critical trends and challenges,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Ch Muhammad Awais , Marco Reggiannini , Davide Moroni , Emanuele Salerno

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

Simulating high-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images in complex scenes has consistently presented a significant research challenge. The development of a microwave-domain surface scattering model and its reversibility are poised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Jiangtao Wei , Yixiang Luomei , Xu Zhang , Feng Xu

Semi-supervised learning techniques are gaining popularity due to their capability of building models that are effective, even when scarce amounts of labeled data are available. In this paper, we present a framework and specific tasks for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-05 Antonio Montanaro , Diego Valsesia , Giulia Fracastoro , Enrico Magli

The performance of Automated Recognition (ATR) algorithms on side-scan sonar imagery has shown to degrade rapidly when deployed on non benign environments. Complex seafloors and acoustic artefacts constitute distractors in the form of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Thomas Guerneve , Stephanos Loizou , Andrea Munafo , Pierre-Yves Mignotte

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are commonly utilized in military applications for automatic target recognition (ATR). Machine learning (ML) methods, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Graph Neural Networks (GNN), are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Sasindu Wijeratne , Bingyi Zhang , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna , Carl Busart

We consider a synthetic aperture imaging configuration, such as synthetic aperture radar (SAR), where we want to first separate reflections from moving targets from those coming from a stationary background, and then to image separately the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-14 Matan Leibovich , George Papanicolaou , Chrysoula Tsogka

Object classification in synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) imagery is usually a data starved and class imbalanced problem. There are few objects of interest present among much benign seafloor. Despite these problems, current classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Isaac Gerg , David Williams

Existing synthetic aperture radar automatic target recognition (SAR ATR) methods have been effective for the classification of seen target classes. However, it is more meaningful and challenging to distinguish the unseen target classes,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Chenwei Wang , Siyi Luo , Jifang Pei , Xiaoyu Liu , Yulin Huang , Yin Zhang , Jianyu Yang

High resolution automotive radar sensors are required in order to meet the high bar of autonomous vehicles needs and regulations. However, current radar systems are limited in their angular resolution causing a technological gap. An…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Itai Orr , Moshik Cohen , Harel Damari , Meir Halachmi , Zeev Zalevsky

In recent years, deep learning has been widely used to solve the bottleneck problem of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR). However, most current methods rely heavily on a large number of training samples and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-11 Chenwei Wang , Siyi Luo , Lin Liu , Yin Zhang , Jifang Pei , Yulin Huang , Jianyu Yang

Recently, methods based on deep learning have been successfully applied to ship detection for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Despite the development of numerous ship detection methodologies, detecting small and coastal ships remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Xiaolin Ma , Junkai Cheng , Aihua Li , Yuhua Zhang , Zhilong Lin

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) offers a unique capability for all-weather, space-based maritime activity monitoring by capturing and imaging strong reflections from ships at sea. A well-defined challenge in this domain is ship type…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Benyamin Hosseiny , Kamirul Kamirul , Odysseas Pappas , Alin Achim

Recently, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image change detection has become an interesting yet challenging direction due to the presence of speckle noise. Although both traditional and modern learning-driven methods attempted to overcome…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Gong Chen , Yanan Zhao , Yi Wang , Kim-Hui Yap

We consider synthetic aperture radar imaging of a region containing point-like targets. Measurements are the set of frequency responses to scattering by the targets taken over a collection of individual spatial locations along the flight…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Arnold D. Kim , Chrysoula Tsogka

The outstanding pattern recognition performance of deep learning brings new vitality to the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR). However, there is a limitation in current deep learning based ATR solution that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Fan Zhang , Chen Hu , Qiang Yin , Wei Li , Hengchao Li , Wen Hong

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

Change detection from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery is a critical yet challenging task. Existing methods mainly focus on feature extraction in spatial domain, and little attention has been paid to frequency domain. Furthermore, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Xiaofan Qu , Feng Gao , Junyu Dong , Qian Du , Heng-Chao Li

Benefited from the rapid and sustainable development of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors, change detection from SAR images has received increasing attentions over the past few years. Existing unsupervised deep learning-based methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-15 Junjie Wang , Feng Gao , Junyu Dong , Qian Du , Heng-Chao Li