arXiv Computer Vision

ProSR: Semantic-Prototype-Guided Discrete Modeling for Physically Consistent SAR Super-Resolution

ProSR is a new method for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) super‑resolution that treats the task as a discrete token prediction problem in a quantized latent space. By mapping SAR signal features to discrete scattering primitives and using a self‑supervised backbone to extract label‑free semantic priors, ProSR preserves the impulsive, physically consistent scattering statistics of SAR images. The approach includes Semantic‑Aligned Detail Encoding and a Prototype‑Map‑Guided Attention mechanism, and it has been validated on a large‑scale 0.25 m resolution benchmark from the Umbra Open Dataset, achieving superior visual quality while maintaining essential scattering characteristics.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 2

C-DiffSET: Leveraging Latent Diffusion for SAR-to-EO Image Translation with Confidence-Guided Reliable Object Generation

C‑DiffSET is a SAR‑to‑EO image translation framework that uses a pretrained Latent Diffusion Model to adapt SAR imagery to the EO domain. The method exploits the pretrained VAE encoder’s ability to map SAR and EO images into a shared latent space, even when SAR inputs contain varying noise levels. A confidence‑guided diffusion loss further improves pixel‑wise fidelity by reducing artifacts such as appearing or disappearing objects, leading to state‑of‑the‑art results across multiple datasets.

By Jeonghyeok Do, Jaehyup Lee, Munchurl Kim
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 8

SAREO-FM: Decoupled Semantic Supervision for SAR-EO Foundation Models

SAREO‑FM is a foundation model that separates semantic supervision from reconstruction supervision in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and electro‑optical (EO) imagery. It uses modality tokens for masked reconstruction and learnable semantic queries guided by a pretrained vision foundation model to capture scene content. Trained on the million‑scale SAR‑1M corpus, the model shows strong unimodal transfer for SAR and EO alone and significant improvements when both modalities are combined.

By Jeonghyeok Do, Munchurl Kim
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 7

Bridging Modalities and Tasks: A Unified Hierarchical ViT for SAR-to-Optical Translation and Semantic Segmentation

The paper introduces BMT, a unified hierarchical Vision Transformer that jointly performs SAR-to-optical image translation and semantic segmentation. It incorporates a LocalViTBlock, an enhanced output module, a ControlNet-style conditional injection, and a bounded Kendall uncertainty weighting scheme to balance the two tasks. Experiments on paired and unpaired datasets demonstrate competitive performance in both translation quality and segmentation accuracy.

By Siyuan Liu, Xuze Zhang, Yongshun Wang, Licong Pan, Hang Liu, Huihui Li
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 10

Cross-modal learning for SAR target recognition using optical vision foundation models

The paper proposes a cross‑modal framework that uses a frozen DINOv3 optical vision foundation model to create class‑level prototypes for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) target recognition. By aligning SAR embeddings to these optical prototypes, the SAR model learns to classify SAR images without needing paired optical data. Experiments on the UNICORNv2 dataset show that this prototype alignment improves SAR classification accuracy compared to baseline methods and yields clearer class separation in the embedding space.

By Lucas Hirsch, James R. Hopgood, Javid Khan, Yoann Altmann, Mike E. Davies
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 21

SARES-DEIM: Sparse Mixture-of-Experts Meets DETR for Clutter-Aware SAR Ship Detection

SARES-DEIM is a SAR ship detection framework that builds on the DETR architecture. It introduces a sparse mixture‑of‑experts module, SARESMoE, which routes features to wavelet, spatial, and frequency experts, and a Space‑to‑Depth Enhancement Pyramid (SDEP) neck that preserves high‑resolution cues for small targets. The method achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on HRSID and SAR‑Ship‑Dataset, delivering 76.4% mAP50:95 and 93.8% mAP50 while maintaining efficient inference at 136.5 FPS on an NVIDIA A40 GPU.

By Fenghao Song, Shaojing Yang, Xi Zhou
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 11

SAR2Agri: Learning SAR Intensity Representations for Agricultural Monitoring

Agricultural monitoring faces unique challenges, arising from the landscape's complex temporal, phenological, and climate dynamics, yet monitoring them is critical for ensuring food security. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites offer all-weather day-night imaging capability supporting key monitoring tasks including crop type mapping, yield prediction and phenological event detection.

arXiv AI
Jul 23

Physics-Aware Complex-Valued State Space Model with Scattering-Prior Feature Modulation for PolSAR Image Classification

arXiv:2607. 19787v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) image classification is a representative task for physics-aware GeoAI, where land-cover semantics are closely coupled with electromagnetic scattering mechanisms.

By Fangyan Zhang, Fan Zhang, Shiqi Zhou, Jun Ni, Carlos L\'opez-Mart\'inez, Qiang Yin