English
Related papers

Related papers: SOMA-1M: A Large-Scale SAR-Optical Multi-resolutio…

200 papers

Optical satellites, with their diverse band layouts and ground sampling distances, supply indispensable evidence for tasks ranging from ecosystem surveillance to emergency response. However, significant discrepancies in band composition and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Xuyang Li , Chenyu Li , Danfeng Hong

Robust and accurate segmentation of scenes has become one core functionality in various visual recognition and navigation tasks. This has inspired the recent development of Segment Anything Model (SAM), a foundation model for general mask…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Aoran Xiao , Weihao Xuan , Heli Qi , Yun Xing , Naoto Yokoya , Shijian Lu

Despite the recent success of Multimodal Foundation Models (FMs), their reliance on massive paired datasets limits their applicability in low-data and rare-scenario settings where aligned data is scarce and expensive. A key bottleneck is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Truong Pham , Anay Majee , Rishabh Iyer

The effective combination of the complementary information provided by the huge amount of unlabeled multi-sensor data (e.g., Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and optical images) is a critical topic in remote sensing. Recently, contrastive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-11 Yuxing Chen , Lorenzo Bruzzone

Utilizing the complementary strengths of wavelength-specific range or depth sensors is crucial for robust computer-assisted tasks such as autonomous driving. Despite this, there is still little research done at the intersection of optical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Vanessa Wirth , Johanna Bräunig , Nikolai Hofmann , Martin Vossiek , Tim Weyrich , Marc Stamminger

Multimodal remote sensing technology significantly enhances the understanding of surface semantics by integrating heterogeneous data such as optical images, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), and Digital Surface Models (DSM). However, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Tong Wang , Xiaodong Zhang , Guanzhou Chen , Jiaqi Wang , Chenxi Liu , Xiaoliang Tan , Wenchao Guo , Xuyang Li , Xuanrui Wang , Zifan Wang

High-resolution satellite imagery is essential for geospatial analysis, yet differences in spatial resolution across satellite sensors present challenges for data fusion and downstream applications. Super-resolution techniques can help…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Philip Wootaek Shin , Vishal Gaur , Rahul Ramachandran , Manil Maskey , Jack Sampson , Vijaykrishnan Narayanan , Sujit Roy

Remote sensing solutions for avalanche segmentation and mapping are key to supporting risk forecasting and mitigation in mountain regions. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery from Sentinel-1 can be effectively used for this task, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Riccardo Gelato , Carlo Sgaravatti , Jakob Grahn , Giacomo Boracchi , Filippo Maria Bianchi

Multimodal remote sensing image (MRSI) matching is pivotal for cross-modal fusion, localization, and object detection, but it faces severe challenges due to geometric, radiometric, and viewpoint discrepancies across imaging modalities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Peihao Wu , Yongxiang Yao , Wenfei Zhang , Dong Wei , Yi Wan , Yansheng Li , Yongjun Zhang

Given the limitations of satellite orbits and imaging conditions, multi-modal remote sensing (RS) data is crucial in enabling long-term earth observation. However, maritime surveillance remains challenging due to the complexity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Chen-Chen Fan , Peiyao Guo , Linping Zhang , Kehan Qi , Haolin Huang , Yong-Qiang Mao , Yuxi Suo , Zhizhuo Jiang , Yu Liu , You He

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-06 Pan Zhang , Baochai Peng , Chaoran Lu , Quanjin Huang

Foundation models like ChatGPT and Sora that are trained on a huge scale of data have made a revolutionary social impact. However, it is extremely challenging for sensors in many different fields to collect similar scales of natural images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Chenyang Lei , Liyi Chen , Jun Cen , Xiao Chen , Zhen Lei , Felix Heide , Qifeng Chen , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Despite remarkable progress in Single Image Super-Resolution (SISR), traditional models often struggle to generalize across varying scale factors, limiting their real-world applicability. To address this, we propose a plug-in Scale-Aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Dongsik Yoon , Jongeun Kim

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

Remote Sensing Image-Text Retrieval (RSITR) is pivotal for knowledge services and data mining in the remote sensing (RS) domain. Considering the multi-scale representations in image content and text vocabulary can enable the models to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Rui Yang , Shuang Wang , Yingping Han , Yuanheng Li , Dong Zhao , Dou Quan , Yanhe Guo , Licheng Jiao

The joint interpretation of very high resolution SAR and optical images in dense urban area are not trivial due to the distinct imaging geometry of the two types of images. Especially, the inevitable layover caused by the side-looking SAR…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-24 Yuanyuan Wang , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Achieving pixel-level registration between SAR and optical images remains a challenging task due to their fundamentally different imaging mechanisms and visual characteristics. Although deep learning has achieved great success in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Haodong Wang , Tao Zhuo , Xiuwei Zhang , Hanlin Yin , Wencong Wu , Yanning Zhang

High-resolution aerial images have a wide range of applications, such as military exploration, and urban planning. Semantic segmentation is a fundamental method extensively used in the analysis of high-resolution aerial images. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Jingbo Lin , Weipeng Jing , Houbing Song

The Cerrado faces increasing environmental pressures, necessitating accurate land use and land cover (LULC) mapping despite challenges such as class imbalance and visually similar categories. To address this, we present CerraData-4MM, a…

Mapping land surface disturbances supports disaster response, resource and ecosystem management, and climate adaptation efforts. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is an invaluable tool for disturbance mapping, providing consistent time-series…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Harris Hardiman-Mostow , Charles Marshak , Alexander L. Handwerger