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Deep unfolding networks have recently emerged as a promising approach for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging. However, baseline unfolding networks, typically derived from iterative reconstruction algorithms such as the alternating…

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This paper presents two approaches for filter design based on stochastic distances for intensity speckle reduction. A window is defined around each pixel, overlapping samples are compared and only those which pass a goodness-of-fit test are…

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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…

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Synthetic aperture radar automatic target recognition (SAR ATR) is of considerable importance in marine navigation and disaster monitoring. However, the coherent speckle noise inherent in SAR imagery often obscures salient target features,…

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Change detection is one of the fundamental applications of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. However, speckle noise presented in SAR images has a much negative effect on change detection. In this research, a novel two-phase…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Xinzheng Zhang , Guo Liu , Ce Zhang , Peter M Atkinson , Xiaoheng Tan , Xin Jian , Xichuan Zhou , Yongming Li

Speckle noise is a fundamental challenge in coherent imaging systems, significantly degrading image quality. Over the past decades, numerous despeckling algorithms have been developed for applications such as Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Ali Zafari , Shirin Jalali

Benefited from the rapid and sustainable development of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors, change detection from SAR images has received increasing attentions over the past few years. Existing unsupervised deep learning-based methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-15 Junjie Wang , Feng Gao , Junyu Dong , Qian Du , Heng-Chao Li

Incoherent processing for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a promising approach that enables low implementation costs, simplified hardware designs and operations in high frequency spectrum compared to the conventional imaging methods using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-30 Samia Kazemi , Bariscan Yonel , Birsen Yazici

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

Solving variational image segmentation problems with hidden physics is often expensive and requires different algorithms and manually tunes model parameter. The deep learning methods based on the U-Net structure have obtained outstanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Hui Zhu , Shi Shu , Jianping Zhang

Deepfake (DF) audio detectors still struggle to generalize to out of distribution inputs. A central reason is spectral bias, the tendency of neural networks to learn low-frequency structure before high-frequency (HF) details, which both…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Ido Nitzan HIdekel , Gal lifshitz , Khen Cohen , Dan Raviv

Supervised learning-based methods yield robust denoising results, yet they are inherently limited by the need for large-scale clean/noisy paired datasets. The use of unsupervised denoisers, on the other hand, necessitates a more detailed…

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Pansharpening aims to generate high-resolution multispectral (HRMS) images by fusing low-resolution multispectral (LRMS) and high-resolution panchromatic (PAN) images. Although deep learning has advanced this field, mainstream…

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Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery enables all-weather, day-and-night Earth observation; however, it remains difficult to interpret due to speckle noise and other intrinsic imaging artifacts. Sentinel-1 (S1) constitutes one of the most…

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In this paper, we propose a novel locally statistical variational active contour model based on I-divergence-TV denoising model, which hybrides geodesic active contour (GAC) model with active contours without edges (ACWE) model, and can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Guangming Liu

The segmentation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is a longstanding yet challenging task, not only because of the presence of speckle, but also due to the variations of surface backscattering properties in the images. Tremendous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Gui-Song Xia , Gang Liu , Wen Yang

The process of fusing a high spatial resolution (HR) panchromatic (PAN) image and a low spatial resolution (LR) multispectral (MS) image to obtain an HRMS image is known as pansharpening. With the development of convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-05 Yinghui Xing , Yan Zhang , Houjun He , Xiuwei Zhang , Yanning Zhang

Despeckling is a key and indispensable step in SAR image preprocessing, existing deep learning-based methods achieve SAR despeckling by learning some mappings between speckled (different looks) and clean images. However, there exist no…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-14 Ye Yuan , Jian Guan , Jianguo Sun

Array synthetic aperture radar (Array-SAR), also known as tomographic SAR (TomoSAR), has demonstrated significant potential for high-quality 3D mapping, particularly in urban areas.While deep learning (DL) methods have recently shown…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-24 Yu Ren , Xu Zhan , Yunqiao Hu , Xiangdong Ma , Liang Liu , Mou Wang , Jun Shi , Shunjun Wei , Tianjiao Zeng , Xiaoling Zhang

A Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) sensor is able to collect images in different polarization states, making it a rich source of information for target characterization. PolSAR images are inherently affected by speckle.…

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