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Cloud removal is a relevant topic in Remote Sensing as it fosters the usability of high-resolution optical images for Earth monitoring and study. Related techniques have been analyzed for years with a progressively clearer view of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Alessandro Sebastianelli , Artur Nowakowski , Erika Puglisi , Maria Pia Del Rosso , Jamila Mifdal , Fiora Pirri , Pierre Philippe Mathieu , Silvia Liberata Ullo

The challenge of the cloud removal task can be alleviated with the aid of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images that can penetrate cloud cover. However, the large domain gap between optical and SAR images as well as the severe speckle noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Fang Xu , Yilei Shi , Patrick Ebel , Lei Yu , Gui-Song Xia , Wen Yang , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) fusion-based object detection has attracted significant research interest in remote sensing, as these modalities provide complementary information for all-weather monitoring. However, practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Zhicheng Zhao , Yuancheng Xu , Andong Lu , Chenglong Li , Jin Tang

Deep learning has achieved some success in addressing the challenge of cloud removal in optical satellite images, by fusing with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Recently, diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Yuyang Hu , Suhas Lohit , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Tim K. Marks

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

Cloud contamination severely degrades the usability of remote sensing imagery and poses a fundamental challenge for downstream Earth observation tasks. Recently, diffusion-based models have emerged as a dominant paradigm for remote sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yifan Zhang , Qian Chen , Yi Liu , Wengen Li , Jihong Guan

Neural surface reconstruction (NSR) has recently shown strong potential for urban 3D reconstruction from multi-view aerial imagery. However, existing NSR methods often suffer from geometric ambiguity and instability, particularly under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Da Li , Chen Yao , Tong Mao , Jiacheng Bao , Houjun Sun

Addressing gaps caused by cloud cover and the long revisit cycle of satellites is vital for providing essential data to support remote sensing applications. This paper tackles the challenges of missing optical data synthesis, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Chenxi Duan

Sensor fusion of camera, LiDAR, and 4-dimensional (4D) Radar has brought a significant performance improvement in autonomous driving. However, there still exist fundamental challenges: deeply coupled fusion methods assume continuous sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Dong-Hee Paek , Seung-Hyun Kong

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

State-of-the-art LiDAR-camera 3D object detectors usually focus on feature fusion. However, they neglect the factor of depth while designing the fusion strategy. In this work, we are the first to observe that different modalities play…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Mingqian Ji , Jian Yang , Shanshan Zhang

Accurate land cover classification from satellite imagery is crucial in environmental monitoring and sustainable resource management. However, it remains challenging due to the complexity of natural landscapes, the visual similarity between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Debopom Sutradhar , Arefin Ittesafun Abian , Mohaimenul Azam Khan Raiaan , Reem E. Mohamed , Sheikh Izzal Azid , Sami Azam

With the increasing availability of optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images thanks to the Sentinel constellation, and the explosion of deep learning, new methods have emerged in recent years to tackle the reconstruction of optical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Rémi Cresson , Nicolas Narçon , Raffaele Gaetano , Aurore Dupuis , Yannick Tanguy , Stéphane May , Benjamin Commandre

Radar and camera fusion yields robustness in perception tasks by leveraging the strength of both sensors. The typical extracted radar point cloud is 2D without height information due to insufficient antennas along the elevation axis, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Huawei Sun , Hao Feng , Gianfranco Mauro , Julius Ott , Georg Stettinger , Lorenzo Servadei , Robert Wille

In this paper, we attempt to address the challenging problem of counting built-structures in the satellite imagery. Building density is a more accurate estimate of the population density, urban area expansion and its impact on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Anza Shakeel , Waqas Sultani , Mohsen Ali

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

Underwater images suffer from severe degradations, including color distortions, reduced visibility, and loss of structural details due to wavelength-dependent attenuation and scattering. Existing enhancement methods primarily focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jaskaran Singh Walia , Shravan Venkatraman , Pavithra LK

Pansharpening aims to generate high-resolution multispectral (HRMS) images by fusing low-resolution multispectral (LRMS) and high-resolution panchromatic (PAN) images. Although deep learning has advanced this field, mainstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Jianing Zhang , Zijian Zhou , Kai Sun

The objective of pansharpening and hypersharpening is to accurately combine a high-resolution panchromatic (PAN) image with a low-resolution multispectral (MS) or hyperspectral (HS) image, respectively. Unfolding fusion methods integrate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-05 Ivan Pereira-Sánchez , Eloi Sans , Julia Navarro , Joan Duran

Cloud occlusion severely degrades the semantic integrity of optical remote sensing imagery. While incorporating Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) provides complementary observations, achieving efficient global modeling and reliable cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Chenxing Meng , Wuzhou Quan , Yingjie Cai , Liqun Cao , Liyan Zhang , Mingqiang Wei
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