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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

Deep models trained on source domain lack generalization when evaluated on unseen target domains with different data distributions. The problem becomes even more pronounced when we have no access to target domain samples for adaptation. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Duo Peng , Yinjie Lei , Munawar Hayat , Yulan Guo , Wen Li

The paper defines a new coordinate system that was developed in 1977-78 for the world's first digital synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ground processor for images from the Seasat-A satellite. The coordinate system is for the range-Doppler…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2018-08-21 P. H. Robert Orth

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and optical imagery provide complementary strengths that constitute the critical foundation for transcending single-modality constraints and facilitating cross-modal collaborative processing and intelligent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Peihao Wu , Yongxiang Yao , Yi Wan , Wenfei Zhang , Ruipeng Zhao , Jiayuan Li , Yongjun Zhang

Spaceborne synthetic aperture radar can provide meters scale images of the ocean surface roughness day or night in nearly all weather conditions. This makes it a unique asset for many geophysical applications. Sentinel 1 SAR wave mode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Nicolae-Catalin Ristea , Andrei Anghel , Mihai Datcu , Bertrand Chapron

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have achieved realistic super-resolution (SR) of images however, they lack semantic consistency and per-pixel confidence, limiting their credibility in critical remote sensing applications such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Prerana Ramkumar

Anomaly detection is a key research challenge in computer vision and machine learning with applications in many fields from quality control to radar imaging. In radar imaging, specifically synthetic aperture radar (SAR), anomaly detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Lucian Chauvin , Somil Gupta , Angelina Ibarra , Joshua Peeples

Remote sensing visual grounding (RSVG) aims to localize specific targets in remote sensing images using natural language expressions. However, existing methods are restricted to single-sensor domains, i.e., either optical or synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Xiaoyu Tang , Jun Dong , Jintao Cheng , Rui Fan

The availability of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite imagery has increased considerably in recent years, with datasets commercially available. However, the acquisition of high-resolution SAR images in airborne configurations,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Solene Debuysere , Nicolas Trouve , Nathan Letheule , Olivier Leveque , Elise Colin

While semantic segmentation has seen tremendous improvements in the past, there are still significant labeling efforts necessary and the problem of limited generalization to classes that have not been present during training. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Benedikt Blumenstiel , Johannes Jakubik , Hilde Kühne , Michael Vössing

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image captioning enables scene-level semantic understanding and plays a crucial role in applications such as military intelligence and urban planning, but its development is limited by the scarcity of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Jinqi Zhang , Lamei Zhang , Bin Zou

Research on the intelligent interpretation of all-weather, all-time Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is crucial for advancing remote sensing applications. In recent years, although Visual Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Xiaokun Zhang , Yi Yang , Ziqi Ye , Baiyun , Xiaorong Guo , Qingchen Fang , Ruyi Zhang , Xinpeng Zhou , Haipeng Wang

Satellite-based remote sensing is instrumental in the monitoring and mitigation of the effects of anthropogenic climate change. Large scale, high resolution data derived from these sensors can be used to inform intervention and policy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Matt Allen , Francisco Dorr , Joseph A. Gallego-Mejia , Laura Martínez-Ferrer , Anna Jungbluth , Freddie Kalaitzis , Raúl Ramos-Pollán

Image registration under domain shift remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision and medical imaging: when source and target images exhibit systematic intensity differences, the brightness constancy assumption underlying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Jiahao Qin , Yiwen Wang

Within the remote sensing domain, a diverse set of acquisition modalities exist, each with their own unique strengths and weaknesses. Yet, most of the current literature and open datasets only deal with electro-optical (optical) data for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-15 Jacob Shermeyer , Daniel Hogan , Jason Brown , Adam Van Etten , Nicholas Weir , Fabio Pacifici , Ronny Haensch , Alexei Bastidas , Scott Soenen , Todd Bacastow , Ryan Lewis

Existing deep learning-based methods can capture shared features from optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images for spatial alignment. However, optical-SAR registration remains challenging under large geometric deformations, because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Zhuoyu Cai , Dou Quan , Ning Huyan , Pei He , Shuang Wang , Licheng Jiao

In synthetic aperture radar (SAR), images are formed by focusing the response of stationary objects to a single spatial location. On the other hand, moving targets cause phase errors in the standard formation of SAR images that cause…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-20 Gregory E. Newstadt , Edmund G. Zelnio , Alfred O. Hero

In this work we investigate the viability of foundational AI/ML models for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) object recognition tasks. We are inspired by the tremendous progress being made in the wider community, particularly in the natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Nathan Inkawhich

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 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