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This manuscript introduces SARFormer, a modified Vision Transformer (ViT) architecture designed for processing one or multiple synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Given the complex image geometry of SAR data, we propose an acquisition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Jonathan Prexl , Michael Recla , Michael Schmitt

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

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

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

Deep learning methods based synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image target recognition tasks have been widely studied currently. The existing deep methods are insufficient to perceive and mine the scattering information of SAR images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Chenxi Zhao , Daochang Wang , Siqian Zhang , Gangyao Kuang

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery exhibits intrinsic information sparsity due to its unique electromagnetic scattering mechanism. Despite the widespread adoption of deep neural network (DNN)-based SAR automatic target recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yiming Zhang , Weibo Qin , Yuntian Liu , Feng Wang

Deep learning in remote sensing has become an international hype, but it is mostly limited to the evaluation of optical data. Although deep learning has been introduced in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data processing, despite successful…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Xiao Xiang Zhu , Sina Montazeri , Mohsin Ali , Yuansheng Hua , Yuanyuan Wang , Lichao Mou , Yilei Shi , Feng Xu , Richard Bamler

Synthetic aperture radar technology is crucial for high-resolution imaging under various conditions; however, the acquisition of real-world synthetic aperture radar data for deep learning-based automatic target recognition remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Minjun Kim , Ohtae Jang , Haekang Song , Heesub Shin , Jaewoo Ok , Minyoung Back , Jaehyuk Youn , Sungho Kim

In real-world scenarios, it may not always be possible to collect hundreds of labeled samples per class for training deep learning-based SAR Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) models. This work specifically tackles the few-shot SAR ATR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Nathan Inkawhich

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

SAR images are highly sensitive to observation configurations, and they exhibit significant variations across different viewing angles, making it challenging to represent and learn their anisotropic features. As a result, deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Zhengxin Lei , Feng Xu , Jiangtao Wei , Feng Cai , Feng Wang , Ya-Qiu Jin

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

Synthetic aperture radar tomographic imaging reconstructs the three-dimensional reflectivity of a scene from a set of coherent acquisitions performed in an interferometric configuration. In forest areas, a large number of elements…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-09 Zoé Berenger , Loïc Denis , Florence Tupin , Laurent Ferro-Famil , Yue Huang

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

We present a novel Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) system using open-vocabulary object detection and classification models. A primary advantage of this approach is that target classes can be defined just before runtime by a non-technical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Anthony Palladino , Dana Gajewski , Abigail Aronica , Patryk Deptula , Alexander Hamme , Seiyoung C. Lee , Jeff Muri , Todd Nelling , Michael A. Riley , Brian Wong , Margaret Duff

This paper presents a brief examination of Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) technology within ground-based radar systems. It offers a lucid comprehension of the ATR concept, delves into its historical milestones, and categorizes ATR…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Jiangkun Gong , Jun Yan , Deyong Kong , Deren Li

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

Synthetic aperture radar has the ability to work 24/7 and 24/7, and has high application value. Propose a new SAR image matching algorithm based on multi class features, mainly using two different types of features: straight lines and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Mazhi Qiang , Fengming Zhou

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

Object detection in satellite-borne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery holds immense potential in tasks such as urban monitoring and disaster response. However, the inherent complexities of SAR data and the scarcity of annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Yasin Almalioglu , Andrzej Kucik , Geoffrey French , Dafni Antotsiou , Alexander Adam , Cedric Archambeau