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SAR Object Detection with Self-Supervised Pretraining and Curriculum-Aware Sampling

Apr 17, 2025

Small-object detection in spaceborne SAR imagery faces critical challenges including severe scarcity of annotated data, extreme scale imbalance, and poor model generalization. Method: This paper proposes TRANSAR, an end-to-end vision Transformer framework. It introduces (i) a novel mask image modeling (MIM)-based self-supervised pretraining paradigm leveraging over 25,700 km² of unlabeled SAR data; (ii) an auxiliary binary semantic segmentation head to improve small-object localization; and (iii) a curriculum-learning-driven dynamic class sampling scheduler to mitigate severe scale imbalance. Results: On multiple SAR benchmark datasets, TRANSAR consistently outperforms state-of-the-art models—including DeepLabv3, UNet, and SegFormer—with up to a 12.6% absolute gain in average precision (AP) for small objects. These results validate the effectiveness and advancement of the synergistic integration of self-supervised pretraining and curriculum-aware sampling.

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SAR Object Detection with Self-Supervised Pretraining and Curriculum-Aware Sampling

Apr 17, 2025

Small-object detection in spaceborne SAR imagery faces critical challenges including severe scarcity of annotated data, extreme scale imbalance, and poor model generalization. Method: This paper proposes TRANSAR, an end-to-end vision Transformer framework. It introduces (i) a novel mask image modeling (MIM)-based self-supervised pretraining paradigm leveraging over 25,700 km² of unlabeled SAR data; (ii) an auxiliary binary semantic segmentation head to improve small-object localization; and (iii) a curriculum-learning-driven dynamic class sampling scheduler to mitigate severe scale imbalance. Results: On multiple SAR benchmark datasets, TRANSAR consistently outperforms state-of-the-art models—including DeepLabv3, UNet, and SegFormer—with up to a 12.6% absolute gain in average precision (AP) for small objects. These results validate the effectiveness and advancement of the synergistic integration of self-supervised pretraining and curriculum-aware sampling.

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