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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved high performance in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR). However, the performance of CNNs depends heavily on a large amount of training data. The insufficiency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Chenwei Wang , Xiaoyu Liu , Yulin Huang , Siyi Luo , Jifang Pei , Jianyu Yang , Deqing Mao

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) object detection faces significant challenges from speckle noise, small target ambiguities, and on-board computational constraints. While existing approaches predominantly focus on SAR-specific architectural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Xinyi Yu , Zhiwei Lin , Yongtao Wang

The effective combination of the complementary information provided by the huge amount of unlabeled multi-sensor data (e.g., Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and optical images) is a critical topic in remote sensing. Recently, contrastive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-11 Yuxing Chen , Lorenzo Bruzzone

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery has diverse applications in land and marine surveillance. Unlike electro-optical (EO) systems, these systems are not affected by weather conditions and can be used in the day and night times. With the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Abu Md Niamul Taufique , Navya Nagananda , Andreas Savakis

It is challenging to train a robust object detector under the supervised learning setting when the annotated data are scarce. Thus, previous approaches tackling this problem are in two categories: semi-supervised learning models that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Guanghan Ning , Guang Chen , Chaowei Tan , Si Luo , Liefeng Bo , Heng Huang

In this paper, we proposed to investigate unsupervised anomaly detection in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. Our approach considers anomalies as abnormal patterns that deviate from their surroundings but without any prior knowledge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Max Muzeau , Chengfang Ren , Sébastien Angelliaume , Mihai Datcu , Jean-Philippe Ovarlez

Recently, despite the remarkable advancements in object detection, modern detectors still struggle to detect tiny objects in aerial images. One key reason is that tiny objects carry limited features that are inevitably degraded or lost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Jinfu Li , Yuqi Huang , Hong Song , Ting Wang , Jianghan Xia , Yucong Lin , Jingfan Fan , Jian Yang

Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) algorithms classify a given Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image into one of the known target classes using a set of training images available for each class. Recently, learning methods have shown to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Tushar Agarwal , Nithin Sugavanam , Emre Ertin

Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods such as masked language modeling have shown massive performance gains by pretraining transformer models for a variety of natural language processing tasks. The follow-up research adapted similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Gokul Karthik Kumar , Sahal Shaji Mullappilly , Abhishek Singh Gehlot

Training image-based object detectors presents formidable challenges, as it entails not only the complexities of object detection but also the added intricacies of precisely localizing objects within potentially diverse and noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Chandan Kumar , Jansel Herrera-Gerena , John Just , Matthew Darr , Ali Jannesari

The perception of transparent objects is one of the well-known challenges in computer vision. Conventional depth sensors have difficulty in sensing the depth of transparent objects due to refraction and reflection of light. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Xianghui Fan , Zhaoyu Chen , Mengyang Pan , Anping Deng , Hang Yang

A critical object detection task is finetuning an existing model to detect novel objects, but the standard workflow requires bounding box annotations which are time-consuming and expensive to collect. Weakly supervised object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Tyler LaBonte , Yale Song , Xin Wang , Vibhav Vineet , Neel Joshi

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have made great progress for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images change detection. However, sampling locations of traditional convolutional kernels are fixed and cannot be changed according to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Junjie Wang , Feng Gao , Junyu Dong

Benefiting from a relatively larger aperture's angle, and in combination with a wide transmitting bandwidth, near-field synthetic aperture radar (SAR) provides a high-resolution image of a target's scattering distribution-hot spots.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Xu Zhan , Xiaoling Zhang , Wensi Zhang , Jun Shi , Shunjun Wei , Tianjiao Zeng

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

Object detectors frequently encounter significant performance degradation when confronted with domain gaps between collected data (source domain) and data from real-world applications (target domain). To address this task, numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Jianhong Han , Liang Chen , Yupei Wang

Object detection is essential in space applications targeting Space Domain Awareness and also applications involving relative navigation scenarios. Current deep learning models for Object Detection in space applications are often trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Samet Hicsonmez , Abd El Rahman Shabayek , Arunkumar Rathinam , Djamila Aouada

In recent years, driven by the need for safer and more autonomous transport systems, the automotive industry has shifted toward integrating a growing number of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). Among the array of sensors employed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Colin Decourt , Rufin VanRullen , Didier Salle , Thomas Oberlin

In defense-related remote sensing applications, such as vehicle detection on satellite imagery, supervised learning requires a huge number of labeled examples to reach operational performances. Such data are challenging to obtain as it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Jules BOURCIER , Thomas Floquet , Gohar Dashyan , Tugdual Ceillier , Karteek Alahari , Jocelyn Chanussot

Mapping land surface disturbances supports disaster response, resource and ecosystem management, and climate adaptation efforts. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is an invaluable tool for disturbance mapping, providing consistent time-series…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Harris Hardiman-Mostow , Charles Marshak , Alexander L. Handwerger