Microwave photonic (MWP) SAR technology can realize large bandwidth even across multiple wavebands and therefore improves the imaging resolution significantly. However, when targets are illuminated by the electromagne...
Microwave photonic (MWP) SAR technology can realize large bandwidth even across multiple wavebands and therefore improves the imaging resolution significantly. However, when targets are illuminated by the electromagnetic wave with such an across-band bandwidth, their scattering characteristics will change with signal frequency, which is not taken into consideration for conventional SAR imaging. In this paper, in order to investigate the resolution and optimize the imaging of MWP SAR, we first design several typical structures and conduct electromagnetic simulations on them, from which, we obtain the variation of scattering characteristics within an across-band bandwidth. Then, we use different focusing approaches for one-dimensional imaging processing and adopt different evaluation indicators to evaluate the performance of these methods comprehensively. Finally, with detailed analysis, we give suggestions on the selection of compression methods for different structures at different SNRs.
Applying deep learning to video compression has attracted increasing attention in recent few years. In this work, we address end-to-end learned video compression with a special focus on better learning and utilizing t...
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Deep learning algorithms are widely used in SAR target detection. At present, most detection methods based on neural networks treat SAR images as optical images for processing, and do not fully exploit the characteris...
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SAR image understanding is a significant but also challenging issue in practice. In order to detect the difference between single-polarized and polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) data and explore more information from the pre ...
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SAR image understanding is a significant but also challenging issue in practice. In order to detect the difference between single-polarized and polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) data and explore more information from the pre one, we use GF3 data for experiments and adopt the Deep Clustering with Convolutional Autoencoders (DCEC) algorithm for single-polarized SAR image unsupervised classification. Using both the Kappa coefficient and mutual information derived from the confusion matrix, the results of single-polarized SAR data and PolSAR data are compared. It shows that the classification results of single-polarized SAR data match with the polarimetric ones to some extent, and their results are comparable in some specific applications. This paper presents the potential of information mining from single-polarized SAR images, as well as gives some references for the selection and trade-off between single- and full-polarized SAR data.
Compressed sensing technique is widely used in the field of multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radar imaging to suppress sidelobes and noise, bringing better imaging performance. However, many constraints are intro...
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Compressed sensing technique is widely used in the field of multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radar imaging to suppress sidelobes and noise, bringing better imaging performance. However, many constraints are introduced to the sparse reconstruction model, current sparse microwave imaging model is based on several assumptions, such as far field assumption, which might not hold in some circumstances. In this paper, a novel two-dimensional sparse reconstruction method based on approximated observation is proposed. First, we obtain the measurement matrix by the inverse back-projection operator, and construct a two-dimensional sparse reconstruction model. Then, we adopt the minimax concave constraint as the regularization term and use the iterative soft threshold algorithm (ISTA) for sparse reconstruction. The method retains the advantages of the BP algorithm and the sparse reconstruction algorithm at the same time, and the distance between the target and the antenna array is not constrained by image reconstruction performance of the sparse reconstruction algorithm. Simulations and experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
360-degree/omnidirectional images (OIs) have achieved remarkable attentions due to the increasing applications of virtual reality (VR). Compared to conventional 2D images, OIs can provide more immersive experience to ...
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360-degree/omnidirectional images (OIs) have achieved remarkable attentions due to the increasing applications of virtual reality (VR). Compared to conventional 2D images, OIs can provide more immersive experience to consumers, benefitting from the higher resolution and plentiful field of views (FoVs). Moreover, observing OIs is usually in the head mounted display (HMD) without references. Therefore, an efficient blind quality assessment method, which is specifically designed for 360-degree images, is urgently desired. In this paper, motivated by the characteristics of the human visual system (HVS) and the viewing process of VR visual contents, we propose a novel and effective no-reference omnidirectional image quality assessment (NR OIQA) algorithm by Multi-Frequency information and Local-Global Naturalness (MFILGN). Specifically, inspired by the frequency-dependent property of visual cortex, we first decompose the projected equirectangular projection (ERP) maps into wavelet subbands by using discrete Haar wavelet transform (DHWT). Then, the entropy intensities of low-frequency and high-frequency subbands are exploited to measure the multi-frequency information of OIs. Besides, except for considering the global naturalness of ERP maps, owing to the browsed FoVs, we extract the natural scene statistics (NSS) features from each viewport image as the measure of local naturalness. With the proposed multi-frequency information measurement and local-global naturalness measurement, we utilize support vector regression (SVR) as the final image quality regressor to train the quality evaluation model from visual quality-related features to human ratings. To our knowledge, the proposed model is the first no-reference quality assessment method for 360-degreee images that combines multi-frequency information and image naturalness. Experimental results on two publicly available OIQA databases demonstrate that our proposed MFILGN outperforms state-of-the-art full-reference (FR) a
Tomographic SAR technique has attracted remarkable interest for its ability of three-dimensional resolving along the elevation direction via a stack of SAR images collected from different cross-track angles. The emerg...
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Classification of intertidal area in synthetic aperture radar(SAR) images is an important yet challenging issue when considering the complicatedly and dramatically changing features of tidal fluctuation. The difficult...
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Classification of intertidal area in synthetic aperture radar(SAR) images is an important yet challenging issue when considering the complicatedly and dramatically changing features of tidal fluctuation. The difficulty of intertidal area classification is compounded because a high proportion of this area is frequently flooded by water, making statistical modeling methods with spatial contextual information often ineffective. Because polarimetric entropy and anisotropy play significant roles in characterizing intertidal areas, in this paper we propose a novel unsupervised contextual classification algorithm. The key point of the method is to combine the generalized extreme value(GEV) statistical model of the polarization features and the Markov random field(MRF) for contextual smoothing. A goodness-of-fit test is added to determine the significance of the components of the statistical model. The final classification results are obtained by effectively combining the results of polarimetric entropy and anisotropy. Experimental results of the polarimetric data obtained by the Chinese Gaofen-3 SAR satellite demonstrate the feasibility and superiority of the proposed classification algorithm.
Collecting amounts of distorted/clean image pairs in the real world is non-trivial, which seriously limits the practical applications of these supervised learning-based methods on real-world image super-resolution (Re...
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Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) tomography (TomoSAR) enables the reconstruction and three-dimensional (3D) localization of targets based on multiple two-dimensional (2D) observations of the same scene. The resolving al...
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