A Note on Visual Semantics in SAR 3D Imaging

Abstract

Conceptually speaking, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) microwave vision 3D imaging refers to fusing visual semantics into the SAR 3D imaging process to enhance the 3D imaging quality. For SAR Tomography (TomoSAR), it specifically means to reduce the needed observations by fully exploiting SAR visual semantics. However, what does it mean by visual semantics? From the viewpoint of visual perception, 3D structural information could be perceived from either monocular image or binocular images and the same scene could be perceived differently by different people. From the viewpoint of neurophysiology, depth perception from binocular or monocular vision has fundamentally different mechanism. Besides visual illusion phenomenon is omnipresent in daily life. Hence what kinds of visual semantics could be helpful for SAR 3D imaging from the computational point of view? What could be learnt from computer vision community to extract useful visual semantics from SAR images? This short note presents some preliminary discussions on such issues, a purely personal view on such vast topics.

Keywords

• visual pathway
• microwave vision
• tomosar