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Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) is the key technique for remote sensing image recognition. The state-of-the-art works exploit the deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for SAR ATR, leading to high…

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Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery has diverse applications in land and marine surveillance. Unlike electro-optical (EO) systems, these systems are not affected by weather conditions and can be used in the day and night times. With the…

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In this letter, we propose a pseudo-siamese convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture that enables to solve the task of identifying corresponding patches in very-high-resolution (VHR) optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote…

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The detection and prevention of illegal fishing is critical to maintaining a healthy and functional ecosystem. Recent research on ship detection in satellite imagery has focused exclusively on performance improvements, disregarding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Arthur Van Meerbeeck , Jordy Van Landeghem , Ruben Cartuyvels , Marie-Francine Moens

Effective oil spill segmentation in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images is critical for marine oil pollution cleanup, and proper image representation is helpful for accurate image segmentation. In this paper, we propose an effective oil…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Fang Chen , Heiko Balzter , Peng Ren , Huiyu Zhou

Images generated by high-resolution SAR have vast areas of application as they can work better in adverse light and weather conditions. One such area of application is in the military systems. This study is an attempt to explore the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-29 Aakash Singh , Vivek Kumar Singh

Recently, change detection methods for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) have gained increasing research attention. However, existing CNN-based methods neglect the interactions among…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-05 Desen Meng , Feng Gao , Junyu Dong , Qian Du , Heng-Chao Li

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are prone to be contaminated by noise, which makes it very difficult to perform target recognition in SAR images. Inspired by great success of very deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Moussa Amrani , Abdelatif Bey , Abdenour Amamra

Unsustainable fishing practices worldwide pose a major threat to marine resources and ecosystems. Identifying vessels that do not show up in conventional monitoring systems -- known as ``dark vessels'' -- is key to managing and securing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Fernando Paolo , Tsu-ting Tim Lin , Ritwik Gupta , Bryce Goodman , Nirav Patel , Daniel Kuster , David Kroodsma , Jared Dunnmon

Deep learning technologies have significantly improved performance in the field of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image target recognition compared to traditional methods. However, the inherent ``black box" property of deep learning models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Zhuoxuan Li , Xu Zhang , Shumeng Yu , Haipeng Wang

We present the first theoretical framework for applying spiking neural networks (SNNs) to synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometric phase unwrapping. Despite extensive research in both domains, our comprehensive literature review…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Marc Bara

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) despeckling is an important problem in remote sensing as speckle degrades SAR images, affecting downstream tasks like detection and segmentation. Recent studies show that convolutional neural networks(CNNs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Malsha V. Perera , Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara , Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Vishal M. Patel

Maritime surveillance is not only necessary for every country, such as in maritime safeguarding and fishing controls, but also plays an essential role in international fields, such as in rescue support and illegal immigration control. Most…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-09 Chenwei Wang , Siyi Luo , Jifang Pei , Yulin Huang , Yin Zhang , Jianyu Yang

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…

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Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing causes global economic losses of 10-25 billion USD annually and undermines marine sustainability and governance. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) provides reliable maritime surveillance under…

This article is written to serve as an introduction and survey of imaging with synthetic aperture radar (SAR). The reader will benefit from having some familiarity with harmonic analysis, electromagnetic radiation, and inverse problems.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-24 Toby Sanders , Christian Dwyer , Rodrigo B. Platte

We propose a new convolutional neural network (CNN) which performs coarse and fine segmentation for end-to-end synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR) system. In recent years, many CNNs for SAR ATR using deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Hidetoshi Furukawa

Optical remote sensing and Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) remote sensing are crucial for earth observation, offering complementary capabilities. While optical sensors provide high-quality images, they are limited by weather and lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Hannuo Zhang , Huihui Li , Jiarui Lin , Yujie Zhang , Jianghua Fan , Hang Liu

Driver assistance systems as well as autonomous cars have to rely on sensors to perceive their environment. A heterogeneous set of sensors is used to perform this task robustly. Among them, radar sensors are indispensable because of their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-26 Johanna Rock , Mate Toth , Elmar Messner , Paul Meissner , Franz Pernkopf

Camera-based Deep Learning algorithms are increasingly needed for perception in Automated Driving systems. However, constraints from the automotive industry challenge the deployment of CNNs by imposing embedded systems with limited…

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