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Maritime surveillance is indispensable for civilian fields, including national maritime safeguarding, channel monitoring, and so on, in which synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ship target recognition is a crucial research field. The core…

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In this paper, we introduce an innovative super resolution approach to emerging modes of near-field synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging. Recent research extends convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures from the optical to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Christos Vasileiou , Josiah W. Smith , Shiva Thiagarajan , Matthew Nigh , Yiorgos Makris , Murat Torlak

Conventional focusing methods for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) employ block processing efficiently but remain latency-heavy processes that prevent the realisation of a closed-loop cognitive SAR vision system. We present the first Online…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Sebastian Fieldhouse , Roberto Del Prete , Gabriele Daga , Nathaniel Rensly , Gabriele Meoni , Kea-Tiong Tang

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) increasingly rely on on-board computer-vision systems for tasks such as habitat mapping, ecological monitoring, and infrastructure inspection. However, underwater imagery is hindered by light…

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Indonesia's marine ecosystems, part of the globally recognized Coral Triangle, are among the richest in biodiversity, requiring efficient monitoring tools to support conservation. Traditional fish detection methods are time-consuming and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jonathan Wuntu , Muhamad Dwisnanto Putro , Rendy Syahputra

The visual-based SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) is a technology widely used in applications such as robotic navigation and virtual reality, which primarily focuses on detecting feature points from visual images to construct an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Qiong Chang , Xinyuan Chen , Xiang Li , Weimin Wang , Jun Miyazaki

The analysis of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery is an important step in remote sensing applications, and it is a challenging problem due to its inherent speckle noise. One typical solution is to model the data using the $G_I^0$…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Li Fan , Jeova Farias Sales Rocha Neto

Non-Maximum Suppression (NMS) remains a key post-processing step in many real-time object detection pipelines, but it can introduce latency variation and deployment complexity in resource-constrained settings. Recent NMS-free designs such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Chidera G. Oguine , Kanyifeechukwu J. Oguine , Obiozor M. Oguine , Ozioma C. Oguine

Small targets are particularly difficult to detect due to their low pixel count, complex backgrounds, and varying shooting angles, which make it hard for models to extract effective features. While some large-scale models offer high…

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We explore the "hidden" ability of large-scale pre-trained image generation models, such as Stable Diffusion and Imagen, in non-visible light domains, taking Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data for a case study. Due to the inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Zichen Tian , Zhaozheng Chen , Qianru Sun

Maritime object detection is critical for the safe navigation of unmanned surface vessels (USVs), requiring accurate recognition of obstacles from small buoys to large vessels. Real-time detection is challenging due to long distances, small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Tinsae Yehuala , Hao Cheng , Ville Lehtola

The effective use of computer vision and machine learning for on-orbit applications has been hampered by limited computing capabilities, and therefore limited performance. While embedded systems utilizing ARM processors have been shown to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Andrew Ekblad , Trupti Mahendrakar , Ryan T. White , Markus Wilde , Isaac Silver , Brooke Wheeler

Object detection is one of the fundamental objectives in Applied Computer Vision. In some of the applications, object detection becomes very challenging such as in the case of satellite image processing. Satellite image processing has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Arsalan Tahir , Muhammad Adil , Arslan Ali

The increasing integration of sensors in autonomous maritime navigation has led to large-scale multimodal datasets, raising challenges in achieving efficient real-time perception. In such systems, object detection and trajectory perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Grigorios Papanikolaou , Ioannis Kontopoulos , Giannis Spiliopoulos , Dimitris Zissis , Konstantinos Tserpes

With climate change predicted to increase the likelihood of landslide events, there is a growing need for rapid landslide detection technologies that help inform emergency responses. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a remote sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-08 Vanessa Boehm , Wei Ji Leong , Ragini Bal Mahesh , Ioannis Prapas , Edoardo Nemni , Freddie Kalaitzis , Siddha Ganju , Raul Ramos-Pollan

Efficient structural perception is essential for mapping and autonomous navigation on resource-constrained robots. Existing 3D methods are computationally prohibitive, while traditional 2D geometric approaches lack robustness. This paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Guanliang Li , Pedro Espinosa-Angulo , David Perez-Saura , Santiago Tapia-Fernandez

Underwater robotic vision encounters significant challenges, necessitating advanced solutions to enhance performance and adaptability. This paper presents MARS (Multi-Scale Adaptive Robotics Vision), a novel approach to underwater object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Lyes Saad Saoud , Lakmal Seneviratne , Irfan Hussain

This paper presents the first demonstration of a viable, ultra-fast, radiation-hard machine learning (ML) application on FPGAs, which could be used in future high-energy physics experiments. We present a three-fold contribution, with the…

The accurate and efficient vessel draft reading (VDR) is an important component of intelligent maritime surveillance, which could be exploited to assist in judging whether the vessel is normally loaded or overloaded. The computer vision…

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