Generating High Quality Visible Images from SAR Images Using CNNs
This addresses a domain-specific problem for remote sensing and image analysis, with incremental improvements in quality and training convergence.
The paper tackles the problem of generating high-quality visible images from SAR images by proposing a cascaded CNN-based GAN approach for despeckling and colorization, achieving better results than recent state-of-the-art deep learning methods.
We propose a novel approach for generating high quality visible-like images from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images using Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) architectures. The proposed approach is based on a cascaded network of convolutional neural nets (CNNs) for despeckling and image colorization. The cascaded structure results in faster convergence during training and produces high quality visible images from the corresponding SAR images. Experimental results on both simulated and real SAR images show that the proposed method can produce visible-like images better compared to the recent state-of-the-art deep learning-based methods.