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Wide field interferometry has become a subject of increasing interest in the recent years. New methods have been suggested in order to avoid the drawbacks of the standard wide-field method (homothetic mapping) which is not applicable when…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Montilla , J. Sellos , S. F. Pereira , J. J. M. Braat

Spectral imaging enables the analysis of optical material properties that are invisible to the human eye. Different spectral capturing setups, e.g., based on filter-wheel, push-broom, line-scanning, or mosaic cameras, have been introduced…

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Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) offer the potential to benefit 3D reconstruction tasks, including aerial photogrammetry. However, the scalability and accuracy of the inferred geometry are not well-documented for large-scale aerial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Ningli Xu , Rongjun Qin , Debao Huang , Fabio Remondino

This paper aims to develop an accurate 3D geometry representation of satellite images using satellite-ground image pairs. Our focus is on the challenging problem of 3D-aware ground-views synthesis from a satellite image. We draw inspiration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Ming Qian , Jincheng Xiong , Gui-Song Xia , Nan Xue

This technical report summarizes the analysis and approach on the image-to-image translation task in the Multimodal Learning for Earth and Environment Challenge (MultiEarth 2022). In terms of strategy optimization, cloud classification is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Fujian Cheng , Yashu Kang , Chunlei Chen , Kezhao Jiang

Understanding the 3D geometric structure of the Earth's surface has been an active research topic in photogrammetry and remote sensing community for decades, serving as an essential building block for various applications such as 3D digital…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Xiang Li , Mingyang Wang , Yi Fang

Multilook coherent imaging is a widely used technique in applications such as digital holography, ultrasound imaging, and synthetic aperture radar. A central challenge in these systems is the presence of multiplicative noise, commonly known…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-30 Xi Chen , Soham Jana , Christopher A. Metzler , Arian Maleki , Shirin Jalali

Scene depth estimation from stereo and monocular imagery is critical for extracting 3D information for downstream tasks such as scene understanding. Recently, learning-based methods for depth estimation have received much attention due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Zhaoshuo Li , Nathan Drenkow , Hao Ding , Andy S. Ding , Alexander Lu , Francis X. Creighton , Russell H. Taylor , Mathias Unberath

Complex blur such as the mixup of space-variant and space-invariant blur, which is hard to model mathematically, widely exists in real images. In this paper, we propose a novel image deblurring method that does not need to estimate blur…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Chunzhi Gu , Xuequan Lu , Ying He , Chao Zhang

We consider the problem of high-dimensional light field reconstruction and develop a learning-based framework for spatial and angular super-resolution. Many current approaches either require disparity clues or restore the spatial and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-18 Nan Meng , Hayden K. -H. So , Xing Sun , Edmund Y. Lam

Light field cameras have been proved to be powerful tools for 3D reconstruction and virtual reality applications. However, the limited resolution of light field images brings a lot of difficulties for further information display and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-27 Qingyan Sun , Shuo Zhang , Song Chang , Lixi Zhu , Youfang Lin

Landslide monitoring is essential for understanding geohazards and mitigating associated risks. Existing point cloud-based methods, however, typically rely on either geometric or radiometric information and often yield sparse or non-3D…

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We present a method to capture both 3D shape and spatially varying reflectance with a multi-view photometric stereo (MVPS) technique that works for general isotropic materials. Our algorithm is suitable for perspective cameras and nearby…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Min Li , Zhenglong Zhou , Zhe Wu , Boxin Shi , Changyu Diao , Ping Tan

This study investigates the problem of angle-based localization of multiple targets using a multistatic OFDM radar. Although the maximum likelihood (ML) approach can be employed to merge data from different radar pairs, this method requires…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Martin Willame , Hasan Can Yildirim , Laurent Storrer , François Horlin , Jérôme Louveaux

Cloud formations often obscure optical satellite-based monitoring of the Earth's surface, thus limiting Earth observation (EO) activities such as land cover mapping, ocean color analysis, and cropland monitoring. The integration of machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Aleksis Pirinen , Nosheen Abid , Nuria Agues Paszkowsky , Thomas Ohlson Timoudas , Ronald Scheirer , Chiara Ceccobello , György Kovács , Anders Persson

Passive depth estimation is among the most long-studied fields in computer vision. The most common methods for passive depth estimation are either a stereo or a monocular system. Using the former requires an accurate calibration process,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Yotam Gil , Shay Elmalem , Harel Haim , Emanuel Marom , Raja Giryes

3D urban reconstruction of buildings from remotely sensed imagery has drawn significant attention during the past two decades. While aerial imagery and LiDAR provide higher resolution, satellite imagery is cheaper and more efficient to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Bo Xu , Xu Zhang , Zhixin Li , Matt Leotta , Shih-Fu Chang , Jie Shan

Image retrieval enables an efficient search through vast amounts of satellite imagery and returns similar images to a query. Deep learning models can identify images across various semantic concepts without the need for annotations. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Benedikt Blumenstiel , Viktoria Moor , Romeo Kienzler , Thomas Brunschwiler

We use the ultra-violet (UV) spectra in the range 230--300 nm from the SCanning Imaging Absorption spectroMeter for Atmospheric CHartographY (SCIAMACHY) to retrieve the nitric oxide (NO) number densities from atmospheric emissions in the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2018-08-08 Stefan Bender , Miriam Sinnhuber , John P. Burrows , Martin Langowski , Bernd Funke , Manuel López-Puertas