arXiv:2411.10788v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery provides robust environmental and temporal coverage (e.g., during clouds, seasons, day-night cycles), yet it...
arXiv:2608.28517v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-modal image translation in remote sensing must preserve source-observed content while matching the target-domain distribution. Existing methods j...
arXiv:2510. 22665v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a critical imaging modality due to its all-weather operational capability.
Pixel-space generative models bypass lossy latent compression, yet necessitate joint learning of global structure and fine-grained details in a high-dimensional space. Standard flow matching interpolates noise toward a fixed clean-image endpoint, leaving the spectral evolution to be learned implicitly.
arXiv:2608. 15694v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conditional image-to-image generators are single-shot: they map input features to an output in one forward pass and treat it as final, with no opportunity to improve on it.
The paper presents a lightweight method to adapt general‑purpose vision‑language models (VLMs) for multispectral and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image understanding. By rendering each observation as five optical views and one SAR view, naming them in the prompt, and applying LoRA to the language network and selected visual transformer blocks, the authors enable VLMs to process band composites, spectral indices, and radar backscatter without retraining a new foundation model. On a balanced six‑class land‑cover benchmark from BigEarthNet‑v2, the adapted Qwen3‑VL achieves a micro F1 of 0.8275, and the same protocol improves four other VLMs and transfers to flood verification and captioning tasks. "whyItMatters":"The study shows that existing VLMs can be repurposed for multispectral and SAR tasks through simple input rendering and compact LoRA adaptation, avoiding the need for dedicated encoders and domain pretraining."
arXiv:2603.20186v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this work, we propose Image-to-Image Rectified Flow Reformulation (I2I-RFR), a practical plug-in reformulation that recasts standard I2I regress...
arXiv:2606. 20523v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal foundation models have advanced rapidly thanks to large optical benchmarks, but comparable resources for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remain limited.
SIMPLER is a pre‑fine‑tuning method that reduces inference and deployment costs for Earth Observation foundation models by pruning redundant layers. It uses layer‑wise representation similarity on unlabeled task data to identify and remove up to 79% of parameters without requiring gradients, magnitude heuristics, or hyperparameter tuning. Experiments on Prithvi‑EO‑2, TerraMind, and ImageNet‑pretrained ViT‑MAE show that SIMPLER retains 94% of baseline performance while achieving 2.1× faster training and 2.6× faster inference.
arXiv:2608. 11271v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Next-generation Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) missions will generate data far faster than they can downlink, making onboard data reduction essential for near-real-time Earth observation.
arXiv:2606. 28896v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data augmentation is important for improving the generalization of data-driven SAR interpretation models, yet practical augmentation workflows are often hindered by heterogeneous dataset formats, task-dependent metadata requirements, diverse generation methods, and weak validation of generated samples.
arXiv:2608.21300v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation models for medical image segmentation, like prompt-based MedSAM, generalize well across domains and modalities, often in zero or few-shot se...