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.
arXiv:2609.37496v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Paired synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and electro-optical (EO) imagery is increasingly available across sensors, resolutions, and geographic regions. Y...
arXiv:2609.00968v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: SAR-to-EO image translation aims to generate electro-optical (EO) imagery from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) observations. Existing latent diffusion a...
arXiv:2609.31378v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In recent years, diffusion models and GAN-based models have become the mainstream approaches for SAR-to-optical image translation, owing to their advan...
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.
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.
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.
arXiv:2510. 22665v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a critical imaging modality due to its all-weather operational capability.
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:2512.14235v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Automotive radar has shown promising developments in environment perception due to its cost-effectiveness and robustness in adverse weather conditi...
arXiv:2607.23238v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Masked image modeling has become a dominant paradigm for SAR pre-training, yet the design of the reconstruction target remains fundamentally unsett...
The paper introduces DiffPT, a diffusion‑based pretraining method for classifier backbones aimed at improving performance when training data is scarce. Experiments on time‑series, natural image, and medical imaging datasets show that DiffPT outperforms many self‑supervised baselines, especially in low‑data regimes for medical and time‑series tasks. While contrastive pretraining remains superior on CIFAR‑10 and Tiny ImageNet, DiffPT offers a simple and effective alternative across diverse modalities.
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...