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This paper discusses the challenges of detecting and categorizing small drones with radar automatic target recognition (ATR) technology. The authors suggest integrating ATR capabilities into drone detection radar systems to improve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-21 Jiangkun Gong , Jun Yan , Deyong Kong , Deren Li

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

Forward modeling of wave scattering and radar imaging mechanisms is the key to information extraction from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Like inverse graphics in optical domain, an inherently-integrated forward-inverse approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Shilei Fu , Feng Xu

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

With modern defense applications increasingly relying on inexpensive, small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), a major challenge lies in designing intelligent and computationally efficient onboard Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Conor Flynn , Radoslav Ivanov , Birsen Yazici

Maritime surveillance is indispensable for civilian fields, including national maritime safeguarding, channel monitoring, and so on, in which synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ship target recognition is a crucial research field. The core…

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

The analysis of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery is an important step in remote sensing applications, and it is a challenging problem due to its inherent speckle noise. One typical solution is to model the data using the $G_I^0$…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Li Fan , Jeova Farias Sales Rocha Neto

Small area change detection from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a highly challenging task. In this paper, a robust unsupervised approach is proposed for small area change detection from multi-temporal SAR images using deep learning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Xinzheng Zhang , Hang Su , Ce Zhang , Xiaowei Gu , Xiaoheng Tan , Peter M. Atkinson

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have dominated the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR) for years. However, under the limited SAR images, the width and depth of the CNN-based models are limited, and the…

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

The increased availability of SAR data has raised a growing interest in applying deep learning algorithms. However, the limited availability of labeled data poses a significant challenge for supervised training. This article introduces a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-04 M. Muzeau , J. Frontera-Pons , Chengfang Ren , J. -P. Ovarlez

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data enables large-scale surveillance of maritime vessels. However, near-real-time monitoring is currently constrained by the need to downlink all raw data, perform image focusing, and subsequently analyze it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Fabian Kresse , Georgios Pilikos , Mario Azcueta , Nicolas Floury

We introduce a deep learning (DL) framework for inverse problems in imaging, and demonstrate the advantages and applicability of this approach in passive synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image reconstruction. We interpret image recon-…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Bariscan Yonel , Eric Mason , Birsen Yazıcı

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are prone to be contaminated by noise, which makes it very difficult to perform target recognition in SAR images. Inspired by great success of very deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Moussa Amrani , Abdelatif Bey , Abdenour Amamra

In this paper, we develop a novel super-resolution algorithm for near-field synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) under irregular scanning geometries. As fifth-generation (5G) millimeter-wave (mmWave) devices are becoming increasingly affordable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Josiah Smith , Yusef Alimam , Geetika Vedula , Murat Torlak

We present a framework for simulating realistic inverse synthetic aperture radar images of automotive targets at millimeter wave frequencies. The model incorporates radar scattering phenomenology of commonly found vehicles along with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-19 Neeraj Pandey , Shobha Sundar Ram

Deep learning based semantic segmentation is one of the popular methods in remote sensing image segmentation. In this paper, a network based on the widely used encoderdecoder architecture is proposed to accomplish the synthetic aperture…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-03 Donghui Li , Jia Liu , Fang Liu , Wenhua Zhang , Andi Zhang , Wenfei Gao , Jiao Shi

Deep unfolding networks have recently emerged as a promising approach for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging. However, baseline unfolding networks, typically derived from iterative reconstruction algorithms such as the alternating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-27 Shiping Fu , Yufan Chen , Zhe Zhang , Xiaolan Qiu , Qixiang Ye

Deploying deep learning on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data is becoming more common for mapping purposes. One such case is sea ice, which is highly dynamic and rapidly changes as a result of the combined effect of wind, temperature, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Morteza Karimzadeh , Rafael Pires de Lima

High-resolution imagery plays a critical role in improving the performance of visual recognition tasks such as classification, detection, and segmentation. In many domains, including remote sensing and surveillance, low-resolution images…

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

In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved significant success in various synthetic aperture radar (SAR) tasks. However, the complexity and opacity of their internal mechanisms hinder the fulfillment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Siyuan Sun , Yongping Zhang , Hongcheng Zeng , Yamin Wang , Wei Yang , Wanting Yang , Jie Chen