English
Related papers

Related papers: A Deep Learning Iterative Framework for Sentinel-1…

200 papers

The speckle noise inherent in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery significantly degrades image quality and complicates subsequent analysis. Given that SAR speckle is multiplicative and Gamma-distributed, effectively despeckling SAR…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Junhyuk Heo

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are usually degraded by a multiplicative noise known as speckle which makes processing and interpretation of SAR images difficult. In this paper, we introduce a transformer-based network for SAR image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Malsha V. Perera , Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara , Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Vishal M. Patel

In Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging, despeckling is very important for image analysis,whereas speckle is known as a kind of multiplicative noise caused by the coherent imaging system. During the past three decades, various algorithms…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Qianqian Zhang , Ruizhi Sun

In this paper, we present strip-map mode spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging with the focus on Doppler centroid frequency estimation. The non-zero Doppler centroid frequency is the result of non-zero squint angle which if it…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-01 Shahrokh Hamidi

High-resolution satellite imagery is a key element for many Earth monitoring applications. Satellites such as Sentinel-2 feature characteristics that are favorable for super-resolution algorithms such as aliasing and band-misalignment.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Ngoc Long Nguyen , Jérémy Anger , Axel Davy , Pablo Arias , Gabriele Facciolo

Information extraction from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is heavily impaired by speckle noise, hence despeckling is a crucial preliminary step in scene analysis algorithms. The recent success of deep learning envisions a new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-07 Andrea Bordone Molini , Diego Valsesia , Giulia Fracastoro , Enrico Magli

High-resolution is a key trend in the development of synthetic aperture radar (SAR), which enables the capture of fine details and accurate representation of backscattering properties. However, traditional high-resolution SAR imaging…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-11 Guoru Zhou , Zhongqiu Xu , Yizhe Fan , Zhe Zhang , Xiaolan Qiu , Bingchen Zhang , Kun Fu , Yirong Wu

Benefiting from a relatively larger aperture's angle, and in combination with a wide transmitting bandwidth, near-field synthetic aperture radar (SAR) provides a high-resolution image of a target's scattering distribution-hot spots.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Xu Zhan , Xiaoling Zhang , Wensi Zhang , Jun Shi , Shunjun Wei , Tianjiao Zeng

Small area change detection from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a highly challenging task. In this paper, a robust unsupervised approach is proposed for small area change detection from multi-temporal SAR images using deep learning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Xinzheng Zhang , Hang Su , Ce Zhang , Xiaowei Gu , Xiaoheng Tan , Peter M. Atkinson

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

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) often suffers from low spatial and angular resolution due to inherent limitations in imaging hardware and system noise, adversely affecting the accurate estimation of microstructural parameters…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Ruoyou Wu , Jian Cheng , Cheng Li , Juan Zou , Wenxin Fan , Hua Guo , Yong Liang , Shanshan Wang

This letter presents a method of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image despeckling aimed to preserve the detail information while suppressing speckle noise. This method combines the nonlocal self-similarity partition and a proposed modified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Chengwei Sang , Hong Sun , Quisong Xia

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging plays a critical role in all-weather, day-and-night remote sensing, yet reconstruction is often challenged by noise, undersampling, and complex scattering scenarios. Conventional methods, including…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Hefei Gao , Tianyao Huang , Letian Guo , Jie He , Yonina C. Eldar

Learning-based single image super-resolution (SISR) methods are continuously showing superior effectiveness and efficiency over traditional model-based methods, largely due to the end-to-end training. However, different from model-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-24 Kai Zhang , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

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

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

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are inherently corrupted by speckle noise, limiting their utility in high-precision applications. While deep learning methods have shown promise in SAR despeckling, most methods employ a single unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ziqing Ma , Chang Yang , Zhichang Guo , Yao Li

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are often contaminated by a multiplicative noise known as speckle. Speckle makes the processing and interpretation of SAR images difficult. We propose a deep learning-based approach called, Image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Puyang Wang , He Zhang , Vishal M. Patel

Reducing speckle and limiting the variations of the physical parameters in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images is often a key-step to fully exploit the potential of such data. Nowadays, deep learning approaches produce state of the art…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-25 Inès Meraoumia , Emanuele Dalsasso , Loïc Denis , Florence Tupin

At present, the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image classification method based on convolution neural network (CNN) has faced some problems such as poor noise resistance and generalization ability. Spiking neural network (SNN) is one of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Jiankun Chen , Xiaolan Qiu , Chibiao Ding , Yirong Wu