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:2510. 22665v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a critical imaging modality due to its all-weather operational capability.
By Qiwei Ma, Xukun Lu, Wang Liu, Puhong Duan, Xudong Kang, Shutao Li
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...
By Weijie Li, Yafei Song, Yongxiang Liu, Bowen Peng, Jie Zhou, Jingyuan Xia, Wei Yang, Tianpeng Liu, Zhen Liu, Li Liu
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...
By Jeonghyeok Do, Seungchul Lee, Munchurl Kim
arXiv:2608.29384v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: The growing availability of dense commercial Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) time series enables temporal Interferometric SAR (InSAR) analysis, but fi...
By Getnet Demil, Muhammad Farhan Humayun, Tomi Westerlund, Jukka Heikkonen, Mourad Oussalah
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...
By Jeonghyeok Do, Munchurl Kim