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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

In this paper, we propose a novel concept of cross-learning, in order to improve SAR images by learning from the camera images. We use a multi-level abstraction approach to materialise knowledge transfer between the two modalities. We also…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-13 Shahzad Gishkori , David Wright , Liam Daniel , Marina Gashinova , Bernard Mulgrew

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are affected by a spatially-correlated and signal-dependent noise called speckle, which is very severe and may hinder image exploitation. Despeckling is an important task that aims at removing such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Giulia Fracastoro , Enrico Magli , Giovanni Poggi , Giuseppe Scarpa , Diego Valsesia , Luisa Verdoliva

Aiming at answering questions based on the content of remotely sensed images, visual question answering for remote sensing data (RSVQA) has attracted much attention nowadays. However, previous works in RSVQA have focused little on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Zhenghang Yuan , Lichao Mou , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Speckle noise, inherent in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, degrades the performance of the various SAR image analysis tasks. Thus, speckle noise reduction is a critical preprocessing step for smoothing homogeneous regions while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Fatih Nar

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a day or night any-weather imaging modality that is an important tool in remote sensing. Most existing SAR image formation methods result in a maximum a posteriori image which approximates the reflectivity…

Applications · Statistics 2020-07-14 Victor Churchill , Anne Gelb

In this paper we discuss the potential and challenges regarding SAR-optical stereogrammetry for urban areas, using very-high-resolution (VHR) remote sensing imagery. Since we do this mainly from a geometrical point of view, we first analyze…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-27 Chunping Qiu , Michael Schmitt , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Despite the advantages of all-weather and all-day high-resolution imaging, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are much less viewed and used by general people because human vision is not adapted to microwave scattering phenomenon.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Shilei Fu , Feng Xu , Ya-Qiu Jin

Current visual question answering (VQA) tasks often require constructing multimodal datasets and fine-tuning visual language models, which demands significant time and resources. This has greatly hindered the application of VQA to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Fei Wang , Chengcheng Chen , Hongyu Chen , Yugang Chang , Weiming Zeng

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

This article is written to serve as an introduction and survey of imaging with synthetic aperture radar (SAR). The reader will benefit from having some familiarity with harmonic analysis, electromagnetic radiation, and inverse problems.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-24 Toby Sanders , Christian Dwyer , Rodrigo B. Platte

Speckle reduction is a key step in many remote sensing applications. By strongly affecting synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, it makes them difficult to analyse. Due to the difficulty to model the spatial correlation of speckle, a deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-14 Emanuele Dalsasso , Loïc Denis , Florence Tupin

With the rapid development of remote sensing image archives, asking questions about images has become an effective way of gathering specific information or performing image retrieval. However, automatically generated image-based questions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Siran Li , Li Mi , Javiera Castillo-Navarro , Devis Tuia

Visual question answering (VQA) for remote sensing scene has great potential in intelligent human-computer interaction system. Although VQA in computer vision has been widely researched, VQA for remote sensing data (RSVQA) is still in its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Zhenghang Yuan , Lichao Mou , Qi Wang , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Despite the advantages of all-weather and all-day high-resolution imaging, SAR remote sensing images are much less viewed and used by general people because human vision is not adapted to microwave scattering phenomenon. However, expert…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Shilei Fu , Feng Xu , Ya-Qiu Jin

Frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar is emerging as a trendy radar system for synthetic aperture radar (SAR). This letter proposes a novel method for the extraction of the SAR image with the FMCW radar. The proposed method can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-01 Junhyeong Park , Dae-Hwan Jung , Seong-Ook Park

This paper revisits visual representation in knowledge-based visual question answering (VQA) and demonstrates that using regional information in a better way can significantly improve the performance. While visual representation is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yuanze Lin , Yujia Xie , Dongdong Chen , Yichong Xu , Chenguang Zhu , Lu Yuan

Question answering (QA) systems are designed to answer natural language questions. Visual QA (VQA) and Spoken QA (SQA) systems extend the textual QA system to accept visual and spoken input respectively. This work aims to create a system…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Nimrod Shabtay , Zvi Kons , Avihu Dekel , Hagai Aronowitz , Ron Hoory , Assaf Arbelle

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

Currently, numerous remote sensing satellites provide a huge volume of diverse earth observation data. As these data show different features regarding resolution, accuracy, coverage, and spectral imaging ability, fusion techniques are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-29 Hossein Bagheri , Michael Schmitt , Pablo d'Angelo , Xiao Xiang Zhu