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In this paper we analyze several strategies for the estimation of the roughness parameter of the $\mathcal G_I^0$ distribution. It has been shown that this distribution is able to characterize a large number of targets in monopolarized SAR…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Juliana Gambini , Julia Cassetti , María Magdalena Lucini , Alejandro C. Frery

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

Speckle noise poses a significant challenge in maintaining the quality of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, so SAR despeckling techniques have drawn increasing attention. Despite the tremendous advancements of deep learning in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Xuran Hu , Ziqiang Xu , Zhihan Chen , Zhengpeng Feng , Mingzhe Zhu , LJubisa Stankovic

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

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are often contaminated by a multiplicative noise known as speckle. Speckle makes the processing and interpretation of SAR images difficult. We propose a deep learning-based approach called, Image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Puyang Wang , He Zhang , Vishal M. Patel

The speckle noise inherent in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery significantly degrades image quality and complicates subsequent analysis. Given that SAR speckle is multiplicative and Gamma-distributed, effectively despeckling SAR…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Junhyuk Heo

Spectral methods have emerged as a simple yet surprisingly effective approach for extracting information from massive, noisy and incomplete data. In a nutshell, spectral methods refer to a collection of algorithms built upon the eigenvalues…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-26 Yuxin Chen , Yuejie Chi , Jianqing Fan , Cong Ma

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

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) offers all-weather, high-resolution imaging capabilities, but its complex imaging mechanism often poses challenges for interpretation. In response to these limitations, this paper introduces an innovative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Xinyu Bai , Feng Xu

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging plays a critical role in all-weather, day-and-night remote sensing, yet reconstruction is often challenged by noise, undersampling, and complex scattering scenarios. Conventional methods, including…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Hefei Gao , Tianyao Huang , Letian Guo , Jie He , Yonina C. Eldar

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are subject to prominent speckle noise, which is generally considered a purely multiplicative noise process. In theory, this multiplicative noise is that the ratio of the standard deviation to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Mario Mastriani , Alberto E. Giraldez

The inverse Gaussian (IG) is one of the most famous and considered distributions with positive support. We propose a convenient mode-based parameterization yielding the reparametrized IG (rIG) distribution; it allows/simplifies the use of…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-07-17 Antonio Punzo

Compressed sensing Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image formation, formulated as an inverse problem and solved with traditional iterative optimization methods can be very computationally expensive. We investigate the use of denoising…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-25 Odysseas Pappas , Perla Mayo , Andrew Austin , Alin Achim

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in learning representations on graphs in recent years. To generate ideal augmentation views, the augmentation generation methods should preserve essential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Kaiqi Yang , Haoyu Han , Wei Jin , Hui Liu

We study a multiple measurement vector (MMV) approach to synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging of scenes with direction dependent reflectivity and with polarization diverse measurements. The data are gathered by a moving transmit- receive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-08 Liliana Borcea , Ilker Kocyigit

Spectrum sharing is a new approach to solve the congestion problem in the RF spectrum. A spatial approach for spectrum sharing between a radar and a communication system was proposed, which mitigates the radar interference to communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Awais Khawar , Ahmed Abdelhadi , T. Charles Clancy

The $\mathcal{G}^0$ distribution is widely used for monopolarized SAR image modeling because it can characterize regions with different degree of texture accurately. It is indexed by three parameters: the number of looks (which can be…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-04-25 Alejandro C. Frery , Juliana Gambini

The INTEGRAL/SPI, X-gamma-ray spectrometer (20 keV - 8 MeV) is an instrument for which recovering source intensity variations is not straightforward and can constitute a difficulty for data analysis. In most cases, determining the source…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 L. Bouchet , P. -R Amestoy , A. Buttari , F. -H. Rouet , M. Chauvin

Speckle reduction is a longstanding topic in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Many different schemes have been proposed for the restoration of intensity SAR images. Among the different possible approaches, methods based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Emanuele Dalsasso , Xiangli Yang , Loïc Denis , Florence Tupin , Wen Yang

A class of robust estimators of scatter applied to information-plus-impulsive noise samples is studied, where the sample information matrix is assumed of low rank; this generalizes the study of (Couillet et al., 2013b) to spiked random…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-05-01 Romain Couillet