cs.CVMar 13, 2026

Analytical Logit Scaling for High-Resolution Sea Ice Topology Retrieval from Weakly Labeled SAR Imagery

Authors: Reda Elwaradi, Julien Gimenez, Stéphane Hordoir, Mehdi Ait Hamma, Adrien Chan-Hon-Tong, Flora Weissgerber

Organizations: Mastère Spécialisé IA Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris Palaiseau, France · DTIS ONERA, Université Paris-Saclay 91120, Palaiseau, France

Abstract

High-resolution sea ice mapping using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is crucial for Arctic navigation and climate monitoring. However, operational ice charts provide only coarse, region-level polygons (weak labels), forcing automated segmentation models to struggle with pixel-level accuracy and often yielding under-confident, blurred concentration maps. In this paper, we propose a weakly supervised deep learning pipeline that fuses Sentinel-1 SAR and AMSR-2 radiometry data using a U-Net architecture trained with a region-based loss. To overcome the severe under-confidence caused by weak labels, we introduce an Analytical Logit Scaling method applied post-inference. By dynamically calculating the temperature and bias based on the latent space percentiles (2% and 98%) of each scene, we force a physical binarization of the predictions. This adaptive scaling acts as a topological extractor, successfully revealing fine-grained sea ice fractures (leads) at a 40-meter resolution without requiring any manual pixel-level annotations. Our approach not only resolves local topology but also perfectly preserves regional macroscopic concentrations, achieving a 78% accuracy on highly fragmented summer scenes, thereby bridging the gap between weakly supervised learning and high-resolution physical segmentation.

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