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A Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) sensor is able to collect images in different polarization states, making it a rich source of information for target characterization. PolSAR images are inherently affected by speckle.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-16 Adugna G. Mullissa , Claudio Persello , Johannes Reiche

Classification of polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) images is an active research area with a major role in environmental applications. The traditional Machine Learning (ML) methods proposed in this domain generally focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Mete Ahishali , Serkan Kiranyaz , Turker Ince , Moncef Gabbouj

PolSAR data presents unique challenges due to its rich and complex characteristics. Existing data representations, such as complex-valued data, polarimetric features, and amplitude images, are widely used. However, these formats often face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yuqing Wang , Zhongling Huang , Shuxin Yang , Hao Tang , Xiaolan Qiu , Junwei Han , Dingwen Zhang

Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) image interpretation is widely used in various fields. Recently, deep learning has made significant progress in PolSAR image classification. Supervised learning (SL) requires a large amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jianfeng Cai , Yue Ma , Zhixi Feng , Shuyuan Yang

Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) images encompass valuable information that can facilitate extensive land cover interpretation and generate diverse output products. Extracting meaningful features from PolSAR data poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Mohammed Q. Alkhatib , M. Sami Zitouni , Mina Al-Saad , Nour Aburaed , Hussain Al-Ahmad

For polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) image classification, it is a challenge to classify the aggregated terrain types, such as the urban area, into semantic homogenous regions due to sharp bright-dark variations in intensity. The aggregated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-02 Fang Liu , Junfei Shi , Licheng Jiao , Hongying Liu , Shuyuan Yang , Jie Wu , Hongxia Hao , Jialing Yuan

Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) image segmentation is currently of great importance in image processing for remote sensing applications. However, it is a challenging task due to two main reasons. Firstly, the label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Haixia Bi , Lin Xu , Xiangyong Cao , Yong Xue , Zongben Xu

Interpreting and explaining the behavior of deep neural networks is critical for many tasks. Explainable AI provides a way to address this challenge, mostly by providing per-pixel relevance to the decision. Yet, interpreting such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Bowen Wang , Liangzhi Li , Yuta Nakashima , Hajime Nagahara

Speckle suppression in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is a key processing step which continues to be a research topic. A wide variety of methods, using either spatially-based approaches or transform-based strategies, have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Alejandro Mestre-Quereda , Juan M. Lopez-Sanchez

Deep learning and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have made progress in polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) image classification over the past few years. However, a crucial issue has not been addressed, i.e., the requirement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Lamei Zhang , Siyu Zhang , Bin Zou , Hongwei Dong

Deep learning is an effective end-to-end method for Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar(PolSAR) image classification, but it lacks the guidance of related mathematical principle and is essentially a black-box model. In addition, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Junfei Shi , Mengmeng Nie , Weisi Lin , Haiyan Jin , Junhuai Li , Rui Wang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used to improve the accuracy of polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) image classification. However, in most studies, the difference between PolSAR images and optical images is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Lamei Zhang , Hongwei Dong , Bin Zou

The approaches for analyzing the polarimetric scattering matrix of polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) data have always been the focus of PolSAR image classification. Generally, the polarization coherent matrix and the covariance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Xu Liu , Licheng Jiao , Xu Tang , Qigong Sun , Dan Zhang

Deep learning has achieved remarkable success in image recognition, yet their inherent opacity poses challenges for deployment in critical domains. Concept-based interpretations aim to address this by explaining model reasoning through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shizhan Gong , Xiaofan Zhang , Qi Dou

Semantic segmentation plays a crucial role in remote sensing applications, where the accurate extraction and representation of features are essential for high-quality results. Despite the widespread use of encoder-decoder architectures,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Xianping Ma , Ziyao Wang , Yin Hu , Xiaokang Zhang , Man-On Pun

Deep learning has been extensively utilized for PolSAR image classification. However, most existing methods transform the polarimetric covariance matrix into a real- or complex-valued vector to comply with standard deep learning frameworks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Junfei Shi , Yuke Li , Mengmeng Nie , Fang Liu , Haiyan Jin , Junhuai Li , Weisi Lin

In this work, we exploit convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for the classification of very high resolution (VHR) polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) data. Due to the significant appearance of heterogeneous textures within these data, not only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Minh-Tan Pham , Sébastien Lefèvre

In traditional neural network architectures, a multilayer perceptron (MLP) is typically employed as a classification block following the feature extraction stage. However, the Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN) presents a promising alternative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Valeriy Lobanov , Nikita Firsov , Evgeny Myasnikov , Roman Khabibullin , Artem Nikonorov

Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) image classification has been investigated vigorously in various remote sensing applications. However, it is still a challenging task nowadays. One significant barrier lies in the speckle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Haixia Bi , Jing Yao , Zhiqiang Wei , Danfeng Hong , Jocelyn Chanussot

Nonlinear methods such as Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are the gold standard for various challenging machine learning problems, e.g., image classification, natural language processing or human action recognition. Although these methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Grégoire Montavon , Sebastian Bach , Alexander Binder , Wojciech Samek , Klaus-Robert Müller
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