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This work introduces a new framework, named SAFFIRE, to automatically extract a dominant recurrent image pattern from a set of image samples. Such a pattern shall be used to eliminate pose variations between samples, which is a common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Marco Boschi , Luigi Di Stefano , Martino Alessandrini

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

Benefiting from a relatively larger aperture's angle, and in combination with a wide transmitting bandwidth, near-field synthetic aperture radar (SAR) provides a high-resolution image of a target's scattering distribution-hot spots.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Xu Zhan , Xiaoling Zhang , Wensi Zhang , Jun Shi , Shunjun Wei , Tianjiao Zeng

Optical image data have been used by the Remote Sensing workforce to study land use and cover since such data is easily interpretable. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has the characteristic of obtaining images during all-day, all-weather and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-04 Battula Balnarsaiah , G Rajitha

Speckle noise is generated along with the SAR imaging mechanism and degrades the quality of SAR images, leading to difficult interpretation. Hence, despeckling is an indispensable step in SAR pre-processing. Fortunately, supervised learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-26 Liang Chen , Yifei Yin , Hao Shi , Jingfei He , Wei Li

An algorithm based on compressive sensing (CS) is proposed for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging of moving targets. The received SAR echo is decomposed into the sum of basis sub-signals, which are generated by discretizing the target…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-04-07 Jun Wang , Gang Li , Hao Zhang , Xiqin Wang

In recent years, compressed sensing (CS) has been applied in the field of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging and shows great potential. The existing models are, however, based on application of the sensing matrix acquired by the exact…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-23 Jian Fang , Zongben Xu , Bingchen Zhang , Wen Hong , Yirong Wu

Information extraction from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is heavily impaired by speckle noise, hence despeckling is a crucial preliminary step in scene analysis algorithms. The recent success of deep learning envisions a new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-07 Andrea Bordone Molini , Diego Valsesia , Giulia Fracastoro , Enrico Magli

Recent work has made significant progress in learning object meshes with weak supervision. Soft Rasterization methods have achieved accurate 3D reconstruction from 2D images with viewpoint supervision only. In this work, we further reduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Issam Laradji , Pau Rodríguez , David Vazquez , Derek Nowrouzezahrai

Without sufficient data, the quantity of information available for supervised training is constrained, as obtaining sufficient synthetic aperture radar (SAR) training data in practice is frequently challenging. Therefore, current SAR…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-04 Chenwei Wang , Siyi Luo , Yulin Huang , Jifang Pei , Yin Zhang , Jianyu Yang

In the realm of artificial intelligence, the emergence of foundation models, backed by high computing capabilities and extensive data, has been revolutionary. Segment Anything Model (SAM), built on the Vision Transformer (ViT) model with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Xinyang Pu , Hecheng Jia , Linghao Zheng , Feng Wang , Feng Xu

In zero-resource settings where transcribed speech audio is unavailable, unsupervised feature learning is essential for downstream speech processing tasks. Here we compare two recent methods for frame-level acoustic feature learning. For…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Petri-Johan Last , Herman A. Engelbrecht , Herman Kamper

Sparse learning techniques have been routinely used for feature selection as the resulting model usually has a small number of non-zero entries. Safe screening, which eliminates the features that are guaranteed to have zero coefficients for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-05-13 Jun Liu , Zheng Zhao , Jie Wang , Jieping Ye

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has achieved significant progress by leveraging both labeled data and unlabeled data. Existing SSL methods overlook a common real-world scenario when labeled data is extremely scarce, potentially as limited as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Hezhao Liu , Yang Lu , Mengke Li , Yiqun Zhang , Shreyank N Gowda , Chen Gong , Hanzi Wang

We propose a new strategy to improve the accuracy and robustness of image classification. First, we train a baseline CNN model. Then, we identify challenging regions in the feature space by identifying all misclassified samples, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Fadoua Khmaissia , Hichem Frigui

Synthetic Aperture Radar has been extensively used in numerous fields and can gather a wealth of information about the area of interest. This large scene data intensive technology puts a high value on automatic target recognition which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Guibin Zhao , Pengfei Li , Zhibo Zhang , Fusen Guo , Xueting Huang , Wei Xu , Jinyin Wang , Jianlong Chen

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

As in many fields of medical research, survival analysis has witnessed a growing interest in the application of deep learning techniques to model complex, high-dimensional, heterogeneous, incomplete, and censored medical data. Current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Patricia A. Apellániz , Juan Parras , Santiago Zazo

The segmentation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is a longstanding yet challenging task, not only because of the presence of speckle, but also due to the variations of surface backscattering properties in the images. Tremendous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Gui-Song Xia , Gang Liu , Wen Yang

Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) imaging has become a crucial technology for underwater exploration because of its unique ability to maintain resolution at increasing ranges, a characteristic absent in conventional sonar techniques. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-24 Brandon Sheffield , Frank E. Bobe , Bradley Marchand , Matthew S. Emigh