Physics-Informed Diffusion Models for SAR Ship Wake Generation from Text Prompts

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20241v1
• Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 20:21:05 GMT
• Title: Physics-Informed Diffusion Models for SAR Ship Wake Generation from Text Prompts
• Authors: Kamirul Kamirul, Odysseas Pappas, Alin Achim,
• Abstract summary: We develop a diffusion model trained on data generated by a physics-based simulator.<n>The model generates realistic Kelvin wake patterns and significantly achieves faster inference than the physics-based simulator.<n>These results highlight the potential of diffusion models for fast and controllable wake image generation.
• Score: 4.4173427917548524
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Detecting ship presence via wake signatures in SAR imagery is attracting considerable research interest, but limited annotated data availability poses significant challenges for supervised learning. Physics-based simulations are commonly used to address this data scarcity, although they are slow and constrain end-to-end learning. In this work, we explore a new direction for more efficient and end-to-end SAR ship wake simulation using a diffusion model trained on data generated by a physics-based simulator. The training dataset is built by pairing images produced by the simulator with text prompts derived from simulation parameters. Experimental result show that the model generates realistic Kelvin wake patterns and achieves significantly faster inference than the physics-based simulator. These results highlight the potential of diffusion models for fast and controllable wake image generation, opening new possibilities for end-to-end downstream tasks in maritime SAR analysis.

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