arXiv Computer Vision

SAR-FAH: A Frequency-Adaptive Hybrid Network based on Neural ODEs for Structural-Preserving SAR Despeckling

SAR-FAH is a Frequency‑Adaptive Hybrid network that uses Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (NODEs) to despeckle Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. It separates homogeneous and heterogeneous regions in the frequency domain via wavelet transform, then applies a NODE‑based module to low‑frequency sub‑bands for smooth denoising and an enhanced U‑Net with deformable convolutions to high‑frequency sub‑bands for edge and texture preservation. Experiments on synthetic and real SAR data show that SAR‑FAH outperforms current state‑of‑the‑art despeckling methods both quantitatively and qualitatively.

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 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
arXiv AI
Jul 31

PatchDenoiser: Parameter-efficient multi-scale patch learning and fusion denoiser for Low-dose CT imaging

arXiv:2602. 21987v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Low-dose CT images are essential for reducing radiation exposure in cancer screening, pediatric imaging, and longitudinal monitoring protocols, but their quality is often degraded by noise from low-dose acquisition, patient motion, or scanner limitations, affecting both clinical interpretation and downstream analysis.

By Jitindra Fartiyal, Pedro Freire, Sergei K. Turitsyn, Sergei G. Solovski
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3

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.

By Byoungwoo Kim, Munchurl Kim