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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

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

Detecting and tracking objects is a crucial component of any autonomous navigation method. For the past decades, object detection has yielded promising results using neural networks on various datasets. While many methods focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Mathis Morales , Golnaz Habibi

Synthetic Aperture Radar SAR Automatic Target Recognition ATR is a key technique of remote-sensing image recognition which can be supported by deep neural networks The existing works of SAR ATR mostly focus on improving the accuracy of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Jacob Fein-Ashley , Tian Ye , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna , Carl Busart

Detecting and tracking ground objects using earth observation imagery remains a significant challenge in the field of remote sensing. Continuous maritime ship tracking is crucial for applications such as maritime search and rescue, law…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Han Wang , Shengyang Li , Jian Yang , Yuxuan Liu , Yixuan Lv , Zhuang Zhou

Availability of domain-specific datasets is an essential problem in object detection. Maritime vessel detection of inshore and offshore datasets is no exception, there is a limited number of studies addressing this need. For that reason, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Bogdan Iancu , Valentin Soloviev , Luca Zelioli , Johan Lilius

Real-time detection of radar signals in a wideband radio frequency spectrum is a critical situational assessment function in electronic warfare. Compute-efficient detection models have shown great promise in recent years, providing an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Zi Huang , Simon Denman , Akila Pemasiri , Terrence Martin , Clinton Fookes

Ship target recognition is a vital task in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging applications. Although convolutional neural networks have been successfully employed for SAR image target recognition, surpassing traditional algorithms, most…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Dandan Zhao , Zhe Zhang , Dongdong Lu , Jian Kang , Xiaolan Qiu , Yirong Wu

Airports have an important role in both military and civilian domains. The synthetic aperture radar (SAR) based airport detection has received increasing attention in recent years. However, due to the high cost of SAR imaging and annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Daochang Wang , Fan Zhang , Fei Ma , Wei Hu , Yu Tang , Yongsheng Zhou

Deep Learning is gaining traction with geophysics community to understand subsurface structures, such as fault detection or salt body in seismic data. This study describes using deep learning method for iceberg or ship recognition with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Cheng Zhan , Licheng Zhang , Zhenzhen Zhong , Sher Didi-Ooi , Youzuo Lin , Yunxi Zhang , Shujiao Huang , Changchun Wang

In this work a novel ships dataset is proposed consisting of more than 56k images of marine vessels collected by means of web-scraping and including 12 ship categories. A YOLOv3 single-stage detector based on Keras API is built on top of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Alessandro Betti , Benedetto Michelozzi , Andrea Bracci , Andrea Masini

Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) algorithms classify a given Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image into one of the known target classes using a set of training images available for each class. Recently, learning methods have shown to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Tushar Agarwal , Nithin Sugavanam , Emre Ertin

Deep learning techniques have achieved significant success in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) target recognition using predefined datasets in static scenarios. However, real-world applications demand that models incrementally learn new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 George Karantaidis , Athanasios Pantsios , Ioannis Kompatsiaris , Symeon Papadopoulos

We consider the problem in Synthetic Aperture RADAR (SAR) of identifying and classifying objects located on the ground by means of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Specifically, we adopt a single scattering approximation to classify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Romina Gaburro , Patrick Healy , Shraddha Naidu , Clifford Nolan

This paper introduces the Maritime Ship Navigation Behavior Dataset (MID), designed to address challenges in ship detection within complex maritime environments using Oriented Bounding Boxes (OBB). MID contains 5,673 images with 135,884…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Yugang Chang , Hongyu Chen , Fei Wang , Chengcheng Chen , Weiming Zeng

This research paper presents an innovative ship detection system tailored for applications like maritime surveillance and ecological monitoring. The study employs YOLOv8 and repurposed U-Net, two advanced deep learning models, to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-20 Bibi Erum Ayesha , T. Satyanarayana Murthy , Palamakula Ramesh Babu , Ramu Kuchipudi

Spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can provide accurate images of the ocean surface roughness day-or-night in nearly all weather conditions, being an unique asset for many geophysical applications. Considering the huge amount of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Nicolae-Cătălin Ristea , Andrei Anghel , Mihai Datcu , Bertrand Chapron

The maritime shipping industry is undergoing rapid evolution driven by advancements in computer vision artificial intelligence (AI). Consequently, research on AI-based object recognition models for maritime transportation is steadily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Yongjin Kim , Jinbum Park , Sanha Kang , Hanguen Kim

Most existing synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ship classification technologies heavily rely on correctly labeled data, ignoring the discriminative features of unlabeled SAR ship images. Even though researchers try to enrich CNN-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Xianting Feng , Hao zheng , Zhigang Hu , Liu Yang , Meiguang Zheng

This letter presents an effective method for assessing the feasibility of detecting ocean ships using spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR). The technique employs the minimum detectable radar cross-section criterion under specified…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-18 Anatolii Kononov