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The performance of neural network models is often limited by the availability of big data sets. To treat this problem, we survey and develop novel synthetic data generation and augmentation techniques for enhancing low/zero-sample learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Nathan Clement , Alan Schoen , Arnold Boedihardjo , Andrew Jenkins

Rotating Synthetic Aperture Radar (ROSAR) can generate a 360$^\circ$ image of its surrounding environment using the collected data from a single moving track. Due to its non-linear track, the Back-Projection Algorithm (BPA) is commonly used…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Wei Zhao , Cai Wen , Quan Yuan , Rong Zheng

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a tomographic sensor that measures 2D slices of the 3D spatial Fourier transform of the scene. In many operational scenarios, the measured set of 2D slices does not fill the 3D space in the Fourier domain,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Nithin Sugavanam , Emre Ertin

Object detection in satellite-borne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery holds immense potential in tasks such as urban monitoring and disaster response. However, the inherent complexities of SAR data and the scarcity of annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Yasin Almalioglu , Andrzej Kucik , Geoffrey French , Dafni Antotsiou , Alexander Adam , Cedric Archambeau

Generative deep learning architectures can produce realistic, high-resolution fake imagery -- with potentially drastic societal implications. A key question in this context is: How easy is it to generate realistic imagery, in particular for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Tuong Vy Nguyen , Johannes Hoster , Alexander Glaser , Kristian Hildebrand , Felix Biessmann

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image change detection is a critical yet challenging task in the field of remote sensing image analysis. The task is non-trivial due to the following challenges: Firstly, intrinsic speckle noise of SAR images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-19 Yunhao Gao , Feng Gao , Junyu Dong , Qian Du , Heng-Chao Li

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) Imaging methods are usually based on algorithms of match-filtering type, without considering the scene's characteristic, which causes limited imaging quality. Besides, post-processing steps…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-07 Xu Zhan , Xiaoling Zhang , Shunjun Wei , Jun Shi

High-resolution satellite imagery has proven useful for a broad range of tasks, including measurement of global human population, local economic livelihoods, and biodiversity, among many others. Unfortunately, high-resolution imagery is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Yutong He , Dingjie Wang , Nicholas Lai , William Zhang , Chenlin Meng , Marshall Burke , David B. Lobell , Stefano Ermon

Recent advances in synthetic imaging open up opportunities for obtaining additional data in the field of surgical imaging. This data can provide reliable supplements supporting surgical applications and decision-making through computer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-07 Simeon Allmendinger , Patrick Hemmer , Moritz Queisner , Igor Sauer , Leopold Müller , Johannes Jakubik , Michael Vössing , Niklas Kühl

Due to the reduction of technological costs and the increase of satellites launches, satellite images are becoming more popular and easier to obtain. Besides serving benevolent purposes, satellite data can also be used for malicious reasons…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Lydia Abady , Edoardo Daniele Cannas , Paolo Bestagini , Benedetta Tondi , Stefano Tubaro , Mauro Barni

A technique is presented for producing synthetic images from numerical simulations whereby the image resolution is adapted around prominent features. In so doing, adaptive image ray-tracing (AIR) improves the efficiency of a calculation by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 E. R. Parkin

This paper investigates signle-antenna radar imaging with a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). Configuring phase shifts in a RIS-aided radar system can be thought as synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging with a moving virtual…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-19 Furkan H. Ilgac , Mounia Bouabdellah , Aydin Sezgin

Automotive synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems are rapidly emerging as a candidate technological solution to enable a high-resolution environment mapping for autonomous driving. Compared to lidars and cameras, automotive-legacy radars…

We present a simple and efficient method to leverage emerging text-to-image generative models in creating large-scale synthetic supervision for the task of damage assessment from aerial images. While significant recent advances have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Tarun Kalluri , Jihyeon Lee , Kihyuk Sohn , Sahil Singla , Manmohan Chandraker , Joseph Xu , Jeremiah Liu

Aerial-to-ground image synthesis is an emerging and challenging problem that aims to synthesize a ground image from an aerial image. Due to the highly different layout and object representation between the aerial and ground images, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Jinhyun Jang , Taeyong Song , Kwanghoon Sohn

Tremendous variations coupled with large degrees of freedom in UAV-based imaging conditions lead to a significant lack of data in adequately learning UAV-based perception models. Using various synthetic renderers in conjunction with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Christopher Maxey , Jaehoon Choi , Hyungtae Lee , Dinesh Manocha , Heesung Kwon

Object detection and classification for aircraft are the most important tasks in the satellite image analysis. The success of modern detection and classification methods has been based on machine learning and deep learning. One of the key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Junghoon Seo , Seunghyun Jeon , Taegyun Jeon

Synthetic aperture radar technology is crucial for high-resolution imaging under various conditions; however, the acquisition of real-world synthetic aperture radar data for deep learning-based automatic target recognition remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Minjun Kim , Ohtae Jang , Haekang Song , Heesub Shin , Jaewoo Ok , Minyoung Back , Jaehyuk Youn , Sungho Kim

Remote sensing solutions for avalanche segmentation and mapping are key to supporting risk forecasting and mitigation in mountain regions. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery from Sentinel-1 can be effectively used for this task, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Riccardo Gelato , Carlo Sgaravatti , Jakob Grahn , Giacomo Boracchi , Filippo Maria Bianchi

In recent years, compressed sensing (CS) has been applied in the field of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging and shows great potential. The existing models are, however, based on application of the sensing matrix acquired by the exact…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-23 Jian Fang , Zongben Xu , Bingchen Zhang , Wen Hong , Yirong Wu