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Synthetic Aperture RADAR is a radar imaging technique in which the relative motion of the sensor is used to synthesize a very long antenna and obtain high spatial resolution. The increasing interest of the scientific community to simplify…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-05 Cataldo Guaragnella , Tiziana D'Orazio

In the era of information explosion, efficiently leveraging large-scale unlabeled data while minimizing the reliance on high-quality pixel-level annotations remains a critical challenge in the field of medical imaging. Semi-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Hongjie Zhu , Xiwei Liu , Rundong Xue , Zeyu Zhang , Yong Xu , Daji Ergu , Ying Cai , Yang Zhao

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery enables all-weather, day-and-night Earth observation; however, it remains difficult to interpret due to speckle noise and other intrinsic imaging artifacts. Sentinel-1 (S1) constitutes one of the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Juan Francisco Amieva , Christian Ayala , Roberto Del Prete , Mikel Galar

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), with its all-weather and wide-area observation capabilities, serves as a crucial tool for wake detection. However, due to its complex imaging mechanism, wake features in SAR images often appear abstract and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 He Gao , Baoxiang Huang , Milena Radenkovic , Borui Li , Ge Chen

High-performance deep learning methods typically rely on large annotated training datasets, which are difficult to obtain in many clinical applications due to the high cost of medical image labeling. Existing data assessment methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Chun-Yin Huang , Qi Lei , Xiaoxiao Li

Sparse support vector machine (SVM) is a popular classification technique that can simultaneously learn a small set of the most interpretable features and identify the support vectors. It has achieved great successes in many real-world…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-19 Weizhong Zhang , Bin Hong , Wei Liu , Jieping Ye , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He , Jie Wang

Optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image registration is crucial for multi-modal image fusion and applications. However, several challenges limit the performance of existing deep learning-based methods in cross-modal image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Wei Wang , Dou Quan , Ning Huyan , Chonghua Lv , Shuang Wang , Yunan Li , Licheng Jiao

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations, limiting deployment in safety-critical applications such as synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR). Randomized smoothing improves robustness by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Daniel Brignac , Fengwei Tian , Banafsheh Latibari , Abhijit Mahalanobis , Ravi Tandon

In this paper, we propose a novel writer-independent global feature extraction framework for the task of automatic signature verification which aims to make robust systems for automatically distinguishing negative and positive samples. Our…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Kian Ahrabian , Bagher Babaali

Panoramic X-ray is a simple and effective tool for diagnosing dental diseases in clinical practice. When deep learning models are developed to assist dentist in interpreting panoramic X-rays, most of their performance suffers from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Zijian Cai , Xinquan Yang , Xuguang Li , Xiaoling Luo , Xuechen Li , Linlin Shen , He Meng , Yongqiang Deng

The unsupervised 3D object detection is to accurately detect objects in unstructured environments with no explicit supervisory signals. This task, given sparse LiDAR point clouds, often results in compromised performance for detecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Ruiyang Zhang , Hu Zhang , Hang Yu , Zhedong Zheng

Masked auto-encoders (MAE) and related approaches have shown promise for satellite imagery, but their application to synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remains limited due to challenges in semantic labeling and high noise levels. Building on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Nevrez Imamoglu , Ali Caglayan , Toru Kouyama

Face morphing attack detection is challenging and presents a concrete and severe threat for face verification systems. Reliable detection mechanisms for such attacks, which have been tested with a robust cross-database protocol and unknown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Juan Tapia , Daniel Schulz , Christoph Busch

Recently, self-supervised Masked Autoencoders (MAE) have attracted unprecedented attention for their impressive representation learning ability. However, the pretext task, Masked Image Modeling (MIM), reconstructs the missing local patches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Feng Liang , Yangguang Li , Diana Marculescu

Depth completion is an important vision task, and many efforts have been made to enhance the quality of depth maps from sparse depth measurements. Despite significant advances, training these models to recover dense depth from sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Rizhao Fan , Zhigen Li , Heping Li , Ning An

A new line of research for feature selection based on neural networks has recently emerged. Despite its superiority to classical methods, it requires many training iterations to converge and detect informative features. The computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Ghada Sokar , Zahra Atashgahi , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Decebal Constantin Mocanu

Few-shot learning (FSL) is one of the significant and hard problems in the field of image classification. However, in contrast to the rapid development of the visible light dataset, the progress in SAR target image classification is much…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Rui Zhang , Ziqi Wang , Yang Li , Jiabao Wang , Zhiteng Wang

Understanding dynamic 3D scenes is crucial for extended reality (XR) and autonomous driving. Incorporating semantic information into 3D reconstruction enables holistic scene representations, unlocking immersive and interactive applications.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Yun-Jin Li , Mariia Gladkova , Yan Xia , Daniel Cremers

Recently, anomaly detection and localization in multimedia data have received significant attention among the machine learning community. In real-world applications such as medical diagnosis and industrial defect detection, anomalies only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Chaoqin Huang , Qinwei Xu , Yanfeng Wang , Yu Wang , Ya Zhang

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) enables submeter-resolution imaging and all-weather monitoring via active microwave and advanced signal processing. Currently, SAR has found extensive applications in critical maritime domains such as ship…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Liangjie Meng , Danxia Li , Jinrong He , Lili Ma , Zhixin Li