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Underwater sonar imaging plays a crucial role in various applications, including autonomous navigation in murky water, marine archaeology, and environmental monitoring. However, the unique characteristics of sonar images, such as complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Shida Xu , Jingqi Jiang , Jonatan Scharff Willners , Sen Wang

We propose a novel method to generate underwater object imagery that is acoustically compliant with that generated by side-scan sonar using the Unreal Engine. We describe the process to develop, tune, and generate imagery to provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Jaejeong Shin , Shi Chang , Matthew Bays , Joshua Weaver , Tom Wettergren , Silvia Ferrari

Enhancing forward-looking sonar images is critical for accurate underwater target detection. Current deep learning methods mainly rely on supervised training with simulated data, but the difficulty in obtaining high-quality real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Zhisheng Zhang , Peng Zhang , Fengxiang Wang , Liangli Ma , Fuchun Sun

Although point-based networks are demonstrated to be accurate for 3D point cloud modeling, they are still falling behind their voxel-based competitors in 3D detection. We observe that the prevailing set abstraction design for down-sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Chen Chen , Zhe Chen , Jing Zhang , Dacheng Tao

Sonar imaging is fundamental to underwater exploration, with critical applications in defense, navigation, and marine research. Shadow regions, in particular, provide essential cues for object detection and classification, yet existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Kamal Basha S , Anukul Kiran B , Athira Nambiar , Suresh Rajendran

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) provides valuable information about the Earth's surface under all weather and illumination conditions. However, the inherent phenomenon of speckle and the presence of sidelobes around bright targets pose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Antoine De Paepe , Pascal Nguyen , Michael Mabelle , Cédric Saleun , Antoine Jouadé , Jean-Christophe Louvigne

Advances in unmanned synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) imaging platforms allow for the simultaneous collection of multiband SAS imagery. The imagery is collected over several octaves and the phenomenology's interactions with the sea floor vary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Isaac D Gerg

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can measure the phase with antenna and microwave, which cannot be directly extended to visible light imaging due to phase lost. In this letter, we reported an active remote sensing with visible light via…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-26 Meng Xiang , An Pan , Yiyi Zhao , Xuewu Fan , Hui Zhao , Chuang Li , Baoli Yao

The MARS scanner is designed for the x-ray spectroscopic study of samples with the aid of computer tomography methods. Computer tomography allows the reconstruction of slices of an investigated sample using a set of shadow projections…

Radar Cross Section measurement data is often analyzed using Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar images. This paper compares backprojection and iterative smooth reweighted $\ell_1$-minimization as methods to analyze radar cross section…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-15 Christer Larsson

Video synthetic aperture radar (ViSAR) has attracted substantial attention in the moving target detection (MTD) field due to its ability to continuously monitor changes in the target area. In ViSAR, the moving targets' shadows will not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Shangqu Yan , Chenyang Luo , Yaowen Fu , Wenpeng Zhang , Wei Yang , Ruofeng Yu

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

To translate synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image into interpretable forms for human understanding is the ultimate goal of SAR advanced information retrieval. Existing methods mainly focus on 3D surface reconstruction or local geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Ziyu Yue , Ruixi You , Feng Xu

Sonar images are relevant for advancing underwater exploration, autonomous navigation, and ecosystem monitoring. However, the progress depends on data availability. The scarcity of publicly available, well-annotated sonar image datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Larissa S. Gomes , Gustavo P. Almeida , Bryan U. Moreira , Marco Quiroz , Breno Xavier , Lucas Soares , Stephanie L. Brião , Felipe G. Oliveira , Paulo L. J. Drews-Jr

In this paper, we address the challenging problem of data association for underwater SLAM through a novel method for sonar image correspondence using learned features. We introduce SONIC (SONar Image Correspondence), a pose-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Samiran Gode , Akshay Hinduja , Michael Kaess

Multibeam forward-looking sonar (MFLS) plays an important role in underwater detection. There are several challenges to the research on underwater object detection with MFLS. Firstly, the research is lack of available dataset. Secondly, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Kaibing Xie , Jian Yang , Kang Qiu

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

Shadows are often under-considered or even ignored in image editing applications, limiting the realism of the edited results. In this paper, we introduce MetaShadow, a three-in-one versatile framework that enables detection, removal, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Tianyu Wang , Jianming Zhang , Haitian Zheng , Zhihong Ding , Scott Cohen , Zhe Lin , Wei Xiong , Chi-Wing Fu , Luis Figueroa , Soo Ye Kim

Reconstructing three-dimensional (3D) structures from two-dimensional (2D) X-ray images is a valuable and efficient technique in medical applications that requires less radiation exposure than computed tomography scans. Recent approaches…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Chengrui Zhu , Ryoichi Ishikawa , Masataka Kagesawa , Tomohisa Yuzawa , Toru Watsuji , Takeshi Oishi

Three-dimensional synthetic aperture radar (3D SAR) is an advanced active microwave imaging technology widely utilized in remote sensing area. To achieve high-resolution 3D imaging,3D SAR requires observations from multiple aspects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Da Li , Guoqiang Zhao , Chen Yao , Kaiqiang Zhu , Houjun Sun , Jiacheng Bao , Maokun Li