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Despite the advantages of all-weather and all-day high-resolution imaging, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are much less viewed and used by general people because human vision is not adapted to microwave scattering phenomenon.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Shilei Fu , Feng Xu , Ya-Qiu Jin

Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining (CLAP) models have demonstrated unprecedented performance in various acoustic signal recognition tasks. Fiber-optic-based acoustic recognition is one of the most important downstream tasks and plays a…

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Image-to-point cloud cross-modal Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is a challenging task where the query is an RGB image, and the database samples are LiDAR point clouds. Compared to single-modal VPR, this approach benefits from the widespread…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Jianyi Peng , Fan Lu , Bin Li , Yuan Huang , Sanqing Qu , Guang Chen

This paper addresses the highly challenging problem of automatically detecting man-made structures especially buildings in very high resolution (VHR) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. In this context, the paper has two major…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-27 Muhammad Shahzad , Michael Maurer , Friedrich Fraundorfer , Yuanyuan Wang , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Point cloud segmentation is central to autonomous driving and 3D scene understanding. While voxel- and point-based methods dominate recent research due to their compatibility with deep architectures and ability to capture fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Paul Julius Kühn , Duc Anh Nguyen , Arjan Kuijper , Saptarshi Neil Sinha

Leaf wetness detection is a crucial task in agricultural monitoring, as it directly impacts the prediction and protection of plant diseases. However, existing sensing systems suffer from limitations in robustness, accuracy, and…

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Change detection (CD) is a critical task to observe and analyze dynamic processes of land cover. Although numerous deep learning-based CD models have performed excellently, their further performance improvements are constrained by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Kaiyu Li , Xiangyong Cao , Deyu Meng

The detection of early signs of volcanic unrest preceding an eruption, in the form of ground deformation in Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data is critical for assessing volcanic hazard. In this work we treat this as a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-17 Nikolaos Ioannis Bountos , Dimitrios Michail , Ioannis Papoutsis

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been applied to learn spatial features for high-resolution (HR) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image classification. However, there has been little work on integrating the unique statistical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Wenkai Liang , Yan Wu , Ming Li , Peng Zhang , Yice Cao , Xin Hu

In this paper the Modified Fractal Signature method is applied to real Synthetic Aperture Radar images provided to our research group by SET 163 Working Group on SAR radar techniques. This method uses the blanket technique to provide useful…

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Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a critical sensing technology that is notably independent of the sensor-to-target distance and has numerous cross-cutting applications, e.g., target recognition, mapping, surveillance, oceanography,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-25 Andrew R. Willis , Md Sajjad Hossain , Jamie Godwin

A realistic view of the vehicle's surroundings is generally offered by camera sensors, which is crucial for environmental perception. Affordable radar sensors, on the other hand, are becoming invaluable due to their robustness in variable…

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As a cost-effective and robust technology, automotive radar has seen steady improvement during the last years, making it an appealing complement to commonly used sensors like camera and LiDAR in autonomous driving. Radio frequency data with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Yuzhi Wu , Jun Liu , Guangfeng Jiang , Weijian Liu , Danilo Orlando

With the unprecedented photometric precision of the Kepler Spacecraft, significant systematic and stochastic errors on transit signal levels are observable in the Kepler photometric data. These errors, which include discontinuities,…

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

As a powerful all-weather Earth observation tool, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote sensing enables critical military reconnaissance, maritime surveillance, and infrastructure monitoring. Although Vision language models (VLMs) have made…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Zhiming Ma , Xiayang Xiao , Sihao Dong , Peidong Wang , HaiPeng Wang , Qingyun Pan

Cameras can be used to perceive the environment around the vehicle, while affordable radar sensors are popular in autonomous driving systems as they can withstand adverse weather conditions unlike cameras. However, radar point clouds are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Kavin Chandrasekaran , Sorin Grigorescu , Gijs Dubbelman , Pavol Jancura

Very-High Resolution (VHR) remote sensing imagery is increasingly accessible, but often lacks annotations for effective machine learning applications. Recent foundation models like GroundingDINO and Segment Anything (SAM) provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Edoardo Arnaudo , Jacopo Lungo Vaschetti , Lorenzo Innocenti , Luca Barco , Davide Lisi , Vanina Fissore , Claudio Rossi

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) fuse data from multiple sensors and sensing modalities to impart a measure of robustness when operating in adverse conditions. Radars and cameras are popular choices for use in sensor fusion; although radar…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Emmett Wise , Qilong Cheng , Jonathan Kelly

Existing pedestrian attribute recognition (PAR) algorithms are mainly developed based on a static image, however, the performance is unreliable in challenging scenarios, such as heavy occlusion, motion blur, etc. In this work, we propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Xiao Wang , Qian Zhu , Jiandong Jin , Jun Zhu , Futian Wang , Bo Jiang , Yaowei Wang , Yonghong Tian