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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

We consider the problem in Synthetic Aperture RADAR (SAR) of identifying and classifying objects located on the ground by means of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Specifically, we adopt a single scattering approximation to classify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Romina Gaburro , Patrick Healy , Shraddha Naidu , Clifford Nolan

The advancement of multi-channel synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system is considered as an upgraded technology for surveillance activities. SAR sensors onboard provide data for coastal ocean surveillance and a view of the oceanic surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Surya Prakash Tiwari , Sudhir Kumar Chaturvedi , Subhrangshu Adhikary , Saikat Banerjee , Sourav Basu

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

This paper studies a practically meaningful ship detection problem from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images by the neural network. We broadly extract different types of SAR image features and raise the intriguing question that whether…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Yuwen Deng , Donghai Guan , Yanyu Chen , Weiwei Yuan , Jiemin Ji , Mingqiang Wei

Satellite-based onboard data processing is crucial for time-sensitive applications requiring timely and efficient rapid response. Advances in edge artificial intelligence are shifting computational power from ground-based centers to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Roberto Del Prete , Manuel Salvoldi , Domenico Barretta , Nicolas Longépé , Gabriele Meoni , Arnon Karnieli , Maria Daniela Graziano , Alfredo Renga

Recent advancements in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ship detection using deep learning have significantly improved accuracy and speed, yet effectively detecting small objects in complex backgrounds with fewer parameters remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Hongyu Chen , Chengcheng Chen , Fei Wang , Yuhu Shi , Weiming Zeng

Deep learning methods based synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image target recognition tasks have been widely studied currently. The existing deep methods are insufficient to perceive and mine the scattering information of SAR images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Chenxi Zhao , Daochang Wang , Siqian Zhang , Gangyao Kuang

Along with the improvement of radar technologies, Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Inverse SAR (ISAR) has come to be an active research area. SAR/ISAR are radar techniques to generate a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Carlos Pena-Caballero , Elifaleth Cantu , Jesus Rodriguez , Adolfo Gonzales , Osvaldo Castellanos , Angel Cantu , Megan Strait , Jae Son , Dongchul Kim

With the booming of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), CNNs such as VGG-16 and ResNet-50 widely serve as backbone in SAR ship detection. However, CNN based backbone is hard to model long-range dependencies, and causes the lack of enough…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Xiao Ke , Xiaoling Zhang , Tianwen Zhang , Jun Shi , Shunjun Wei

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

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR) is the key technique for remote-sensing image recognition. The state-of-the-art convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for SAR ATR suffer from \emph{high computation cost} and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Bingyi Zhang , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna , Carl Busart

Spaceborne synthetic aperture radar can provide meters scale images of the ocean surface roughness day or night in nearly all weather conditions. This makes it a unique asset for many geophysical applications. Sentinel 1 SAR wave mode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Nicolae-Catalin Ristea , Andrei Anghel , Mihai Datcu , Bertrand Chapron

In this paper, we present the optical image simulation from a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data using deep learning based methods. Two models, i.e., optical image simulation directly from the SAR data and from multi-temporal SARoptical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Wei He , Naoto Yokoya

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) imagery based on microwaves reflected off ground targets is becoming increasingly important in remote sensing for ground movement estimation. However, the reflections are contaminated by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Subhayan Mukherjee , Aaron Zimmer , Xinyao Sun , Parwant Ghuman , Irene Cheng

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging systems operate by emitting radar signals from a moving object, such as a satellite, towards the target of interest. Reflected radar echoes are received and later used by image formation algorithms to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-02 Andrew Rittenbach , John Paul Walters

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

Synthetic aperture imaging systems achieve constant azimuth resolution by coherently summating the observations acquired along the aperture path. At this aim, their locations have to be known with subwavelength accuracy. In underwater…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Salvatore Caporale , Yvan Petillot

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

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Chenwei Wang , Jifang Pei , Siyi Luo , Weibo Huo , Yulin Huang , Yin Zhang , Jianyu Yang
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