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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Simon Vellas , Bill Psomas , Kalliopi Karadima , Dimitrios Danopoulos , Alexandros Paterakis , George Lentaris , Dimitrios Soudris , Konstantinos Karantzalos

This research paper presents an innovative ship detection system tailored for applications like maritime surveillance and ecological monitoring. The study employs YOLOv8 and repurposed U-Net, two advanced deep learning models, to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-20 Bibi Erum Ayesha , T. Satyanarayana Murthy , Palamakula Ramesh Babu , Ramu Kuchipudi

New UAV technologies and the NewSpace era are transforming Earth Observation missions and data acquisition. Numerous small platforms generate large data volume, straining bandwidth and requiring onboard decision-making to transmit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Cédric Léonard , Dirk Stober , Martin Schulz

Deep learning (DL) has emerged as a powerful tool for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) ship classification. This survey comprehensively analyzes the diverse DL techniques employed in this domain. We identify critical trends and challenges,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Ch Muhammad Awais , Marco Reggiannini , Davide Moroni , Emanuele Salerno

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) constitutes a fundamental asset for wide-areas monitoring with high-resolution requirements. The first SAR sensors have given rise to coarse coastal and maritime monitoring applications, including oil spill,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-15 Leonardo De Laurentiis , Andrea Pomente , Fabio Del Frate , Giovanni Schiavon

In this article, we introduce a novel algorithm for efficient near-field synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging for irregular scanning geometries. With the emergence of fifth-generation (5G) millimeter-wave (mmWave) devices, near-field SAR…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-04 Josiah Smith , Murat Torlak

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and optical image registration is essential for remote sensing data fusion, with applications in military reconnaissance, environmental monitoring, and disaster management. However, challenges arise from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Wenfei Zhang , Ruipeng Zhao , Yongxiang Yao , Yi Wan , Peihao Wu , Jiayuan Li , Yansheng Li , Yongjun Zhang

High-resolution imagery plays a critical role in improving the performance of visual recognition tasks such as classification, detection, and segmentation. In many domains, including remote sensing and surveillance, low-resolution images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Ch Muhammad Awais , Marco Reggiannini , Davide Moroni , Oktay Karakus

The current state of the art of Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping, or SLAM, on low power embedded systems is about sparse localisation and mapping with low resolution results in the name of efficiency. Meanwhile, research in this field…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Konstantinos Boikos , Christos-Savvas Bouganis

This paper introduces a software architecture for real-time object detection using machine learning (ML) in an augmented reality (AR) environment. Our approach uses the recent state-of-the-art YOLOv8 network that runs onboard on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Mikołaj Łysakowski , Kamil Żywanowski , Adam Banaszczyk , Michał R. Nowicki , Piotr Skrzypczyński , Sławomir K. Tadeja

Accurate sea ice mapping is essential for safe maritime navigation in polar regions, where rapidly changing ice conditions require timely and reliable information. While Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) provides high-resolution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Mhd Rashed Al Koutayni , Mohamed Selim , Gerd Reis , Alain Pagani , Didier Stricker

Ship target recognition is a vital task in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging applications. Although convolutional neural networks have been successfully employed for SAR image target recognition, surpassing traditional algorithms, most…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Dandan Zhao , Zhe Zhang , Dongdong Lu , Jian Kang , Xiaolan Qiu , Yirong Wu

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

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art accuracy in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Automatic Target Recognition (ATR). However, their high computational cost, latency, and memory footprint make its deployment…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Sachini Wickramasinghe , Tian Ye , Cauligi Raghavendra , Viktor Prasanna

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging, celebrated for its high resolution, all-weather capability, and day-night operability, is indispensable for maritime applications. However, ship detection in SAR imagery faces significant challenges,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Congxia Zhao , Xiongjun Fu , Jian Dong , Shen Cao , Chunyan Zhang

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image recognition is vital for disaster monitoring, military reconnaissance, and ocean observation. However, large SAR image sizes hinder deep learning deployment on resource-constrained edge devices, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Pan Yi , Weijie Li , Xiaodong Chen , Jiehua Zhang , Li Liu , Yongxiang Liu

Ship detection in remote sensing imagery is a critical task with wide-ranging applications, such as maritime activity monitoring, shipping logistics, and environmental studies. However, existing methods often struggle to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Jiahao Li , Jiancheng Pan , Yuze Sun , Xiaomeng Huang

Navigation and trajectorial estimation of maritime vessels are contingent upon the context of positional accuracy. Even the smallest deviations in the estimation of a given vessel may result in detrimental consequences in terms of economic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Atilla Alpay Nalcaci , Fidan Mehmeti , Wolfgang Kellerer , Florian Schiegg

For massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, linear minimum mean-square error (MMSE) detection has been shown to achieve near-optimal performance but suffers from excessively high complexity due to the large-scale matrix…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-19 Chuan Zhang , Zhizhen Wu , Christoph Studer , Zaichen Zhang , Xiaohu You

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) offers a unique capability for all-weather, space-based maritime activity monitoring by capturing and imaging strong reflections from ships at sea. A well-defined challenge in this domain is ship type…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Benyamin Hosseiny , Kamirul Kamirul , Odysseas Pappas , Alin Achim