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Coherent imaging systems like synthetic aperture radar are susceptible to multiplicative noise that makes applications like automatic target recognition challenging. In this paper, NeighCNN, a deep learning-based speckle reduction algorithm…

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Satellite-based Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images can be used as a source of remote sensed imagery regardless of cloud cover and day-night cycle. However, the speckle noise and varying image acquisition conditions pose a challenge for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Janne Alatalo , Tuomo Sipola , Mika Rantonen

We present a novel ship wake simulation system for generating S-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images, and demonstrate the use of such imagery for the classification of ships based on their wake signatures via a deep learning approach.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-07 Kamirul Kamirul , Odysseas Pappas , Igor G. Rizaev , Alin Achim

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) enables submeter-resolution imaging and all-weather monitoring via active microwave and advanced signal processing. Currently, SAR has found extensive applications in critical maritime domains such as ship…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Liangjie Meng , Danxia Li , Jinrong He , Lili Ma , Zhixin Li

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,…

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A cost effective approach to remote monitoring of protected areas such as marine reserves and restricted naval waters is to use passive sonar to detect, classify, localize, and track marine vessel activity (including small boats and…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-10-30 Eric L. Ferguson , Rishi Ramakrishnan , Stefan B. Williams , Craig T. Jin

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) imagery for estimating ground movement, based on microwaves reflected off ground targets is gaining increasing importance in remote sensing. However, noise corrupts microwave reflections…

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

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging technology is commonly used to provide 24-hour all-weather earth observation. However, it still has some drawbacks in SAR target classification, especially in fine-grained classification of aircraft:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Bingying Yue , Jianhao Li , Hao Shi , Yupei Wang , Honghu Zhong

Recently, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image change detection has become an interesting yet challenging direction due to the presence of speckle noise. Although both traditional and modern learning-driven methods attempted to overcome…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Gong Chen , Yanan Zhao , Yi Wang , Kim-Hui Yap

We present a framework for simulating realistic inverse synthetic aperture radar images of automotive targets at millimeter wave frequencies. The model incorporates radar scattering phenomenology of commonly found vehicles along with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-19 Neeraj Pandey , Shobha Sundar Ram

In recent years, machine learning (ML) algorithms have become widespread in all the fields of remote sensing (RS) and earth observation (EO). This has allowed the rapid development of new procedures to solve problems affecting these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Alessandro Sebastianelli , Maria Pia Del Rosso , Silvia Liberata Ullo , Paolo Gamba

This report proposes a robust method for classifying oceanic and atmospheric phenomena using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery. Our proposed method leverages the powerful pre-trained model Swin Transformer v2 Large as the backbone and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Haonan Xu , Han Yinan , Haotian Si , Yang Yang

Change detection from satellite images typically incurs a delay ranging from several hours up to days because of latency in downlinking the acquired images and generating orthorectified image products at the ground stations; this may…

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Using low-frequency (UHF to L-band) ultra-wideband (UWB) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) technology for detecting buried and obscured targets, e.g. bomb or mine, has been successfully demonstrated recently. Despite promising recent progress,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-09 Tiep Vu , Lam Nguyen , Vishal Monga

Recently, many Convolution Neural Networks (CNN) have been successfully employed in bitemporal SAR image change detection. However, most of the existing networks are too heavy and occupy a large volume of memory for storage and calculation.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 Rongfang Wang , Fan Ding , Licheng Jiao , Jia-Wei Chen , Bo Liu , Wenping Ma , Mi Wang

There is an increasing demand for software that automatically detects and classifies mobile targets such as airplanes, cars, and ships in satellite imagery. Applications of such automated target recognition (ATR) software include economic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Mark Pritt

Synthetic aperture radar technology is crucial for high-resolution imaging under various conditions; however, the acquisition of real-world synthetic aperture radar data for deep learning-based automatic target recognition remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Minjun Kim , Ohtae Jang , Haekang Song , Heesub Shin , Jaewoo Ok , Minyoung Back , Jaehyuk Youn , Sungho Kim

With modern defense applications increasingly relying on inexpensive, small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), a major challenge lies in designing intelligent and computationally efficient onboard Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Conor Flynn , Radoslav Ivanov , Birsen Yazici

Radar sensors are crucial for environment perception of driver assistance systems as well as autonomous cars. Key performance factors are a fine range resolution and the possibility to directly measure velocity. With a rising number of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-07 Johanna Rock , Mate Toth , Paul Meissner , Franz Pernkopf