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Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images have proven to be a valuable cue for multimodal Land Cover Classification (LCC) when combined with RGB images. Most existing studies on cross-modal fusion assume that consistent feature information is…

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Semantic segmentation of SAR images has garnered significant attention in remote sensing due to the immunity of SAR sensors to cloudy weather and light conditions. Nevertheless, SAR imagery lacks detailed information and is plagued by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Wang Liu , Zhiyu Wang , Xin Guo , Puhong Duan , Xudong Kang , Shutao Li

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

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging technology provides the unique advantage of being able to collect data regardless of weather conditions and time. However, SAR images exhibit complex backscatter patterns and speckle noise, which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-22 Seon-Hoon Kim , Dae-Won Chung

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is considered being a good option for earth observation with its unique advantages. In this paper, we proposed an adaptive ship detector using full-polarization SAR images. First, by thoroughly investigating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-08 Chuan Zhang , Gui Gao , Linlin Zhang , C. Chen , S. Gao , Libo Yao , Shiquan Gou

Remote sensing (RS) change detection is essential for interpreting surface dynamics. Semantic change detection (SCD) further enables pixel-level understanding of multi-class transitions, yet remains sensitive to pseudo-changes induced by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Hengtong Shen , Li Yan , Hong Xie , Yaxuan Wei , Xinhao Li , Wenfei Shen , Peixian Lv , Fei Tan

In this paper we discuss the potential and challenges regarding SAR-optical stereogrammetry for urban areas, using very-high-resolution (VHR) remote sensing imagery. Since we do this mainly from a geometrical point of view, we first analyze…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-27 Chunping Qiu , Michael Schmitt , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) fusion-based object detection has attracted significant research interest in remote sensing, as these modalities provide complementary information for all-weather monitoring. However, practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Zhicheng Zhao , Yuancheng Xu , Andong Lu , Chenglong Li , Jin Tang

Semi-supervised change detection (SSCD) aims to detect changes between bi-temporal remote sensing images by utilizing limited labeled data and abundant unlabeled data. Existing methods struggle in complex scenarios, exhibiting poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Qi'ao Xu , Pengfei Wang , Yanjun Li , Tianwen Qian , Xiaoling Wang

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

Although deep learning-based methods have achieved excellent performance on SAR ATR, the fact that it is difficult to acquire and label a lot of SAR images makes these methods, which originally performed well, perform weakly. This may be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-23 Chenwei Wang , Siyi Luo , Jifang Pei , Yulin Huang , Yin Zhang , Jianyu Yang

Advancing research in fields such as Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) and autonomous navigation critically depends on the availability of reliable and reproducible multimodal datasets. While several influential datasets have…

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery provides all-weather, all-day, and high-resolution imaging capabilities but its unique imaging mechanism makes interpretation heavily reliant on expert knowledge, limiting interpretability, especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Ruixi You , Hecheng Jia , Feng Xu

The condition monitoring (CM) of synthetic fibre ropes (SFRs) used in offshore, maritime, and industrial settings demands more than a classifier: inspectors need continuous severity estimates, maintenance recommendations, anomaly flags,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Anju Rani , Daniel Ortiz-Arroyo , Petar Durdevic

Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM) allow zero-shot or interactive segmentation of visual contents, thus they are quickly applied in a variety of visual scenes. However, their direct use in many Remote…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Lei Ding , Kun Zhu , Daifeng Peng , Hao Tang , Kuiwu Yang , Lorenzo Bruzzone

Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) in Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images becomes a very challenging problem owing to containing high level noise. In this study, a machine learning-based method is proposed to detect different moving and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Umut Özkaya

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) object detection has gained significant attention recently due to its irreplaceable all-weather imaging capabilities. However, this research field suffers from both limited public datasets (mostly comprising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yuxuan Li , Xiang Li , Weijie Li , Qibin Hou , Li Liu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jian Yang

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery provides robust environmental and temporal coverage (e.g., during clouds, seasons, day-night cycles), yet its noise and unique structural patterns pose interpretation challenges, especially for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Jeonghyeok Do , Jaehyup Lee , Munchurl Kim

Single-source remote sensing object detection using optical or SAR images struggles in complex environments. Optical images offer rich textural details but are often affected by low-light, cloud-obscured, or low-resolution conditions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Chao Wang , Wei Lu , Xiang Li , Jian Yang , Lei Luo

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Abu Md Niamul Taufique , Navya Nagananda , Andreas Savakis