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Most existing synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ship classification technologies heavily rely on correctly labeled data, ignoring the discriminative features of unlabeled SAR ship images. Even though researchers try to enrich CNN-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Xianting Feng , Hao zheng , Zhigang Hu , Liu Yang , Meiguang Zheng

Synthetic Aperture Radar has been extensively used in numerous fields and can gather a wealth of information about the area of interest. This large scene data intensive technology puts a high value on automatic target recognition which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Guibin Zhao , Pengfei Li , Zhibo Zhang , Fusen Guo , Xueting Huang , Wei Xu , Jinyin Wang , Jianlong Chen

Benefiting from a relatively larger aperture's angle, and in combination with a wide transmitting bandwidth, near-field synthetic aperture radar (SAR) provides a high-resolution image of a target's scattering distribution-hot spots.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Xu Zhan , Xiaoling Zhang , Wensi Zhang , Jun Shi , Shunjun Wei , Tianjiao Zeng

Target detection is the front-end stage in any automatic target recognition system for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery (SAR-ATR). The efficacy of the detector directly impacts the succeeding stages in the SAR-ATR processing chain.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-16 Khalid El-Darymli , Peter McGuire , Desmond Power , Cecilia Moloney

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data is becoming increasingly available to a wide range of users through commercial service providers with resolutions reaching 0.5m/px. Segmenting SAR data still requires skilled personnel, limiting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Xiaying Wang , Lukas Cavigelli , Manuel Eggimann , Michele Magno , Luca Benini

Synthetic Aperture RADAR is a radar imaging technique in which the relative motion of the sensor is used to synthesize a very long antenna and obtain high spatial resolution. The increasing interest of the scientific community to simplify…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-05 Cataldo Guaragnella , Tiziana D'Orazio

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

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

In recent years, deep learning has been widely used to solve the bottleneck problem of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR). However, most current methods rely heavily on a large number of training samples and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-11 Chenwei Wang , Siyi Luo , Lin Liu , Yin Zhang , Jifang Pei , Yulin Huang , Jianyu Yang

An algorithm based on compressive sensing (CS) is proposed for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging of moving targets. The received SAR echo is decomposed into the sum of basis sub-signals, which are generated by discretizing the target…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-04-07 Jun Wang , Gang Li , Hao Zhang , Xiqin Wang

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

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images contain a huge amount of information, however, the number of practical use-cases is limited due to the presence of speckle noise in them. In recent years, deep learning based techniques have brought…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-24 Shrey Dabhi , Kartavya Soni , Utkarsh Patel , Priyanka Sharma , Manojkumar Parmar

Deep learning in remote sensing has become an international hype, but it is mostly limited to the evaluation of optical data. Although deep learning has been introduced in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data processing, despite successful…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Xiao Xiang Zhu , Sina Montazeri , Mohsin Ali , Yuansheng Hua , Yuanyuan Wang , Lichao Mou , Yilei Shi , Feng Xu , Richard Bamler

We propose a deep learning framework to detect and categorize oil spills in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images at a large scale. By means of a carefully designed neural network model for image segmentation trained on an extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Filippo Maria Bianchi , Martine M. Espeseth , Njål Borch

Autonomous navigation in underwater environments presents challenges due to factors such as light absorption and water turbidity, limiting the effectiveness of optical sensors. Sonar systems are commonly used for perception in underwater…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Ivano Donadi , Emilio Olivastri , Daniel Fusaro , Wanmeng Li , Daniele Evangelista , Alberto Pretto

Small area change detection from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a highly challenging task. In this paper, a robust unsupervised approach is proposed for small area change detection from multi-temporal SAR images using deep learning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Xinzheng Zhang , Hang Su , Ce Zhang , Xiaowei Gu , Xiaoheng Tan , Peter M. Atkinson

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

This letter presents an effective method for assessing the feasibility of detecting ocean ships using spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR). The technique employs the minimum detectable radar cross-section criterion under specified…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-18 Anatolii Kononov

This paper presents a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) design of a segmentation algorithm based on convolutional neural network (CNN) that can process light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data in real-time. For autonomous vehicles,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-07 Yecheng Lyu , Lin Bai , Xinming Huang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved high performance in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR). However, the performance of CNNs depends heavily on a large amount of training data. The insufficiency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Chenwei Wang , Xiaoyu Liu , Yulin Huang , Siyi Luo , Jifang Pei , Jianyu Yang , Deqing Mao