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In this work we investigate the viability of foundational AI/ML models for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) object recognition tasks. We are inspired by the tremendous progress being made in the wider community, particularly in the natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Nathan Inkawhich

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) utilizes the movement of the radar antenna over a specific area of interest to achieve higher spatial resolution imaging. In this paper, we aim to investigate the realization of SAR imaging for a stationary…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Yifan Sun , Rang Liu , Zhiping Lu , Honghao Luo , Ming Li , Qian Liu

The screening of baggage using X-ray scanners is now routine in aviation security with automatic threat detection approaches, based on 3D X-ray computed tomography (CT) images, known as Automatic Threat Recognition (ATR) within the aviation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Qian Wang , Khalid N. Ismail , Toby P. Breckon

Automatic Target Detection (ATD) and Recognition (ATR) from Thermal Infrared (TI) imagery in the defense and surveillance domain is a challenging computer vision (CV) task in comparison to the commercial autonomous vehicle perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Aon Safdar , Usman Akram , Waseem Anwar , Basit Malik , Mian Ibad Ali

Due to its all-weather and day-and-night capabilities, Synthetic Aperture Radar imagery is essential for various applications such as disaster management, earth monitoring, change detection and target recognition. However, the scarcity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Max Muzeau , Joana Frontera-Pons , Chengfang Ren , Jean-Philippe Ovarlez

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

In this paper, to break the limit of the traditional linear models for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image despeckling, we propose a novel deep learning approach by learning a non-linear end-to-end mapping between the noisy and clean SAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Qiang Zhang , Qiangqiang Yuan , Jie Li , Zhen Yang , Xiaoshuang Ma

We present a framework for adapting a large pretrained latent diffusion model to high-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image generation. The approach enables controllable synthesis and the creation of rare or out-of-distribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Solène Debuysère , Nicolas Trouvé , Nathan Letheule , Olivier Lévêque , Elise Colin

Synthetic aperture radar automatic target recognition (SAR ATR) is of considerable importance in marine navigation and disaster monitoring. However, the coherent speckle noise inherent in SAR imagery often obscures salient target features,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yansong Lin , Zihan Cheng , Jielei Wang , Guoming Lua , Zongyong Cui

Automotive synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can achieve a significant angular resolution enhancement for detecting static objects, which is essential for automated driving. Obtaining high resolution SAR images requires precise ego vehicle…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-25 Oded Bialer , Tom Tirer

Recently, deep learning technology have been extensively used in the field of image recognition. However, its main application is the recognition and detection of ordinary pictures and common scenes. It is challenging to effectively and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Guangcun Shan , Hongyu Wang , Wei Liang , Congcong Liu , Qizi Ma , Quan Quan

Recently, an intriguing research trend for automatic target recognition (ATR) from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery has arisen: using simulated data to train ATR models is a feasible solution to the issue of inadequate measured data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Xinzheng Zhang , Hui Zhu , Hongqian Zhuang

Deep learning techniques have achieved significant success in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) target recognition using predefined datasets in static scenarios. However, real-world applications demand that models incrementally learn new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 George Karantaidis , Athanasios Pantsios , Ioannis Kompatsiaris , Symeon Papadopoulos

Single Image Super-Resolution is a classic computer vision problem that involves estimating high-resolution (HR) images from low-resolution (LR) ones. Although deep neural networks (DNNs), especially Transformers for super-resolution, have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Leheng Zhang , Yawei Li , Xingyu Zhou , Xiaorui Zhao , Shuhang Gu

Vision Transformer (ViT) has achieved remarkable results in object detection for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, owing to its exceptional ability to extract global features. However, it struggles with the extraction of multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Yang Zhang , Jingyi Cao , Yanan You , Yuanyuan Qiao

This work addresses the question whether it is possible to design a computer-vision based automatic threat recognition (ATR) system so that it can adapt to changing specifications of a threat without having to create a new ATR each time.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Ankit Manerikar , Tanmay Prakash , Avinash C. Kak

We consider how image super resolution (SR) can contribute to an object detection task in low-resolution images. Intuitively, SR gives a positive impact on the object detection task. While several previous works demonstrated that this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Muhammad Haris , Greg Shakhnarovich , Norimichi Ukita

Three-dimensional synthetic aperture radar (3D SAR) is an advanced active microwave imaging technology widely utilized in remote sensing area. To achieve high-resolution 3D imaging,3D SAR requires observations from multiple aspects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Da Li , Guoqiang Zhao , Chen Yao , Kaiqiang Zhu , Houjun Sun , Jiacheng Bao , Maokun Li

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery provides all-weather, all-day, and high-resolution imaging capabilities but its unique imaging mechanism makes interpretation heavily reliant on expert knowledge, limiting interpretability, especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Ruixi You , Hecheng Jia , Feng Xu

Deep neural networks have demonstrated prominent capacities for image classification tasks in a closed set setting, where the test data come from the same distribution as the training data. However, in a more realistic open set scenario,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Feiyang Cai , Zhenkai Zhang , Jie Liu , Xenofon Koutsoukos