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Different empirical models have been developed for cloud detection. There is a growing interest in using the ground-based sky/cloud images for this purpose. Several methods exist that perform binary segmentation of clouds. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Soumyabrata Dev , Shilpa Manandhar , Yee Hui Lee , Stefan Winkler

Satellites equipped with optical sensors capture high-resolution imagery, providing valuable insights into various environmental phenomena. In recent years, there has been a surge of research focused on addressing some challenges in remote…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Loddo Fabio , Dario Piga , Michelucci Umberto , El Ghazouali Safouane

Existing fully-supervised point cloud segmentation methods suffer in the dynamic testing environment with emerging new classes. Few-shot point cloud segmentation algorithms address this problem by learning to adapt to new classes at the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Yating Xu , Conghui Hu , Na Zhao , Gim Hee Lee

The increasing penetration of photovoltaic systems in the power grid makes it vulnerable to cloud shadow projection. Real-time cloud segmentation in ground-based infrared images is important to reduce the noise in intra-hour global solar…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-28 Guillermo Terrén-Serrano , Manel Martínez-Ramón

A conditional random field (CRF) model for cloud detection in ground based sky images is presented. We show that very high cloud detection accuracy can be achieved by combining a discriminative classifier and a higher order clique potential…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-19 Vijai T. Jayadevan , Jeffrey J. Rodriguez , Alexander D. Cronin

Most ground-based observatories are equipped with wide-angle all-sky cameras to monitor the night sky conditions. Such camera systems can be used to provide early warning of incoming clouds that can pose a danger to the telescope equipment…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-26 Michael Mommert

The sky is a major component of the appearance of a photograph, and its color and tone can strongly influence the mood of a picture. In nighttime photography, the sky can also suffer from noise and color artifacts. For this reason, there is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Orly Liba , Longqi Cai , Yun-Ta Tsai , Elad Eban , Yair Movshovitz-Attias , Yael Pritch , Huizhong Chen , Jonathan T. Barron

In this study, we propose a novel parallel processing method for point cloud ground segmentation, aimed at the technology evolution from mechanical to solid-state Lidar (SSL). We first benchmark point-based, grid-based, and range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Xiao Zhang , Zhanhong Huang , Garcia Gonzalez Antony , Xinming Huang

Recent advancements in meteorology involve the use of ground-based sky cameras for cloud observation. Analyzing images from these cameras helps in calculating cloud coverage and understanding atmospheric phenomena. Traditionally, cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yijie Li , Hewei Wang , Shaofan Wang , Yee Hui Lee , Muhammad Salman Pathan , Soumyabrata Dev

In LiDAR-based environment perception systems, ground segmentation is a key preprocessing step supporting various applications such as mapping and navigation. Although extensively studied, problems such as reflection noise and isolated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yu Li , Volker Schwieger

In the field of SLAM (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping) for robot navigation, mapping the environment is an important task. In this regard the Lidar sensor can produce near accurate 3D map of the environment in the format of point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Aritra Mukherjee , Sourya Dipta Das , Jasorsi Ghosh , Ananda S. Chowdhury , Sanjoy Kumar Saha

This paper presents a novel method for real-time nighttime cloud detection, tracking, and prediction using all-sky cameras, aimed at enhancing the efficiency of ground-based robotic telescopes. Ground-based telescopes are vulnerable to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-30 Sebastian Buntin , Chris M. Copperwheat , Helen E. Jermak

Cloud segmentation is a critical challenge in remote sensing image interpretation, as its accuracy directly impacts the effectiveness of subsequent data processing and analysis. Recently, vision foundation models (VFM) have demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Xuechao Zou , Shun Zhang , Kai Li , Shiying Wang , Junliang Xing , Lei Jin , Congyan Lang , Pin Tao

Image processing is an important research area in computer vision. Image segmentation plays the vital rule in image processing research. There exist so many methods for image segmentation. Clustering is an unsupervised study. Clustering can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-07-31 Dibya Jyoti Bora , Anil Kumar Gupta

Computer vision techniques enable automated detection of sky pixels in outdoor imagery. In urban climate, sky detection is an important first step in gathering information about urban morphology and sky view factors. However, obtaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Kerry A. Nice , Jasper S. Wijnands , Ariane Middel , Jingcheng Wang , Yiming Qiu , Nan Zhao , Jason Thompson , Gideon D. P. A. Aschwanden , Haifeng Zhao , Mark Stevenson

Semantic segmentation by convolutional neural networks (CNN) has advanced the state of the art in pixel-level classification of remote sensing images. However, processing large images typically requires analyzing the image in small patches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Markku Luotamo , Sari Metsämäki , Arto Klami

We present PRISM, a novel color-guided stratified sampling method for RGB-LiDAR point clouds. Our approach is motivated by the observation that unique scene features often exhibit chromatic diversity while repetitive, redundant features are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Hansol Lim , Minhyeok Im , Jongseong Brad Choi

Ground-based sky imagers (GSIs) are increasingly becoming popular amongst the remote sensing analysts. This is because such imagers offer fantastic alternatives to satellite measurements for the purpose of earth observations. In this paper,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-14 Mayank Jain , Vishal Singh Sengar , Isabella Gollini , Michela Bertolotto , Gavin McArdle , Soumyabrata Dev

Clouds classification is a great challenge in meteorological research. The different types of clouds, currently known and present in our skies, can produce radioactive effects that impact on the variation of atmospheric conditions, with the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Mario Manzo , Simone Pellino

This paper revisits few-shot 3D point cloud semantic segmentation (FS-PCS), with a focus on two significant issues in the state-of-the-art: foreground leakage and sparse point distribution. The former arises from non-uniform point sampling,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Zhaochong An , Guolei Sun , Yun Liu , Fayao Liu , Zongwei Wu , Dan Wang , Luc Van Gool , Serge Belongie