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While deep learning-based general object detection has made significant strides in recent years, the effectiveness and efficiency of small object detection remain unsatisfactory. This is primarily attributed not only to the limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Zile Huang , Chong Zhang , Mingyu Jin , Fangyu Wu , Chengzhi Liu , Xiaobo Jin

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are crucial in Search and Rescue (SAR) missions due to their ability to monitor vast maritime areas. However, small objects often remain difficult to detect from high altitudes due to low object-to-background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Sakib Ahmed , Oscar Pizarro

Publicly available satellite imagery can be an ubiquitous, cheap, and powerful tool for vehicle localisation when a prior sensor map is unavailable. However, satellite images are not directly comparable to data from ground range sensors…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Tim Y. Tang , Daniele De Martini , Shangzhe Wu , Paul Newman

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has enabled the development of vision foundation models for Earth Observation (EO), demonstrating strong transferability across diverse remote sensing tasks. While prior work has focused on network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Thomas Kerdreux , Alexandre Tuel , Quentin Febvre , Alexis Mouche , Bertrand Chapron

Target detection is the front-end stage in any automatic target recognition system for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery (SAR-ATR). The efficacy of the detector directly impacts the succeeding stages in the SAR-ATR processing chain.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-16 Khalid El-Darymli , Peter McGuire , Desmond Power , Cecilia Moloney

The classification of large-scale high-resolution SAR land cover images acquired by satellites is a challenging task, facing several difficulties such as semantic annotation with expertise, changing data characteristics due to varying…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-09 Zhongling Huang , Corneliu Octavian Dumitru , Zongxu Pan , Bin Lei , Mihai Datcu

Urban material recognition in remote sensing imagery is a highly relevant, yet extremely challenging problem due to the difficulty of obtaining human annotations, especially on low resolution satellite images. To this end, we propose an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Arthita Ghosh , Max Ehrlich , Larry Davis , Rama Chellappa

An algorithm based on compressive sensing (CS) is proposed for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging of moving targets. The received SAR echo is decomposed into the sum of basis sub-signals, which are generated by discretizing the target…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-04-07 Jun Wang , Gang Li , Hao Zhang , Xiqin Wang

Moving object segmentation is a crucial task for safe and reliable autonomous mobile systems like self-driving cars, improving the reliability and robustness of subsequent tasks like SLAM or path planning. While the segmentation of camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Leon Schwarzer , Matthias Zeller , Daniel Casado Herraez , Simon Dierl , Michael Heidingsfeld , Cyrill Stachniss

The unsupervised 3D object detection is to accurately detect objects in unstructured environments with no explicit supervisory signals. This task, given sparse LiDAR point clouds, often results in compromised performance for detecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Ruiyang Zhang , Hu Zhang , Hang Yu , Zhedong Zheng

Despite radar's popularity in the automotive industry, for fusion-based 3D object detection, most existing works focus on LiDAR and camera fusion. In this paper, we propose TransCAR, a Transformer-based Camera-And-Radar fusion solution for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Su Pang , Daniel Morris , Hayder Radha

Symmetric objects are common in daily life and industry, yet their inherent orientation ambiguities that impede the training of deep learning networks for pose estimation are rarely discussed in the literature. To cope with these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Andreas Kriegler , Csaba Beleznai , Margrit Gelautz

Progress in self-supervised learning has brought strong general image representation learning methods. Yet so far, it has mostly focused on image-level learning. In turn, tasks such as unsupervised image segmentation have not benefited from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Adrian Ziegler , Yuki M. Asano

The log-ratio (LR) operator has been widely employed to generate the difference image for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image change detection. However, the difference image generated by this pixel-wise operator can be subject to SAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Rongfang Wang , Jia-Wei Chen , Yule Wang , Licheng Jiao , Mi Wang

Deep learning has driven significant progress in object detection using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery. Existing methods, while achieving promising results, often struggle to effectively integrate local and global information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Mingxiang Cao , Weiying Xie , Jie Lei , Jiaqing Zhang , Daixun Li , Yunsong Li

Underwater 3D object detection remains one of the most challenging frontiers in computer vision, where traditional approaches struggle with the harsh acoustic environment and scarcity of training data. While deep learning has revolutionized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 M. Salman Shaukat , Yannik Käckenmeister , Sebastian Bader , Thomas Kirste

LiDAR-based 3D object detectors have been largely utilized in various applications, including autonomous vehicles or mobile robots. However, LiDAR-based detectors often fail to adapt well to target domains with different sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Jiyun Jang , Mincheol Chang , Jongwon Park , Jinkyu Kim

Synthetic Aperture Radar SAR Automatic Target Recognition ATR is a key technique of remote-sensing image recognition which can be supported by deep neural networks The existing works of SAR ATR mostly focus on improving the accuracy of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Jacob Fein-Ashley , Tian Ye , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna , Carl Busart

Semi-supervised learning techniques are gaining popularity due to their capability of building models that are effective, even when scarce amounts of labeled data are available. In this paper, we present a framework and specific tasks for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-05 Antonio Montanaro , Diego Valsesia , Giulia Fracastoro , Enrico Magli

We consider the problem in Synthetic Aperture RADAR (SAR) of identifying and classifying objects located on the ground by means of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Specifically, we adopt a single scattering approximation to classify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Romina Gaburro , Patrick Healy , Shraddha Naidu , Clifford Nolan