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Accurate height estimation from monocular aerial imagery presents a significant challenge due to its inherently ill-posed nature. This limitation is rooted in the absence of adequate geometric constraints available to the model when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Xiaomou Hou , Wanshui Gan , Naoto Yokoya

We introduce the S-EO dataset: a large-scale, high-resolution dataset, designed to advance geometry-aware shadow detection. Collected from diverse public-domain sources, including challenge datasets and government providers such as USGS,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Elías Masquil , Roger Marí , Thibaud Ehret , Enric Meinhardt-Llopis , Pablo Musé , Gabriele Facciolo

Extracting building heights from satellite images is an active research area used in many fields such as telecommunications, city planning, etc. Many studies utilize DSM (Digital Surface Models) generated with lidars or stereo images for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Furkan Burak Bagci , Ahmet Alp Kindriroglu , Metehan Yalcin , Ufuk Uyan , Mahiye Uluyagmur Ozturk

Shadows cast by terrain and tall structures remain a major obstacle for high-resolution satellite image analysis, degrading classification, detection, and 3D reconstruction performance. Public resources offering geometry-consistent paired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Lorenzo Beltrame , Jules Salzinger , Filip Svoboda , Phillipp Fanta-Jende , Jasmin Lampert , Radu Timofte , Marco Körner

Large-scale analysis of pedestrian infrastructures, particularly sidewalks, is critical to human-centric urban planning and design. Benefiting from the rich data set of planimetric features and high-resolution orthoimages provided through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Maryam Hosseini , Iago B. Araujo , Hamed Yazdanpanah , Eric K. Tokuda , Fabio Miranda , Claudio T. Silva , Roberto M. Cesar

To meet the challenges of global urbanization, earth observation information is greatly needed. The lack of global three-dimensional (3D) urban structure data has been a major limiting factor in important urban applications such as…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-07-13 Panshi Wang , Chengquan Huang , James C. Tilton

Object retrieval and reconstruction from very high resolution (VHR) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are of great importance for urban SAR applications, yet highly challenging owing to the complexity of SAR data. This paper addresses…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-24 Yao Sun , Yuansheng Hua , Lichao Mou , Xiao Xiang Zhu

In the globalized economic world, it has become important to understand the purpose behind infrastructural and construction initiatives occurring within developing regions of the earth. This is critical when the financing for such projects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Kyle McCullough , Andrew Feng , Meida Chen , Ryan McAlinden

Building structures detection and information about these buildings in aerial images is an important solution for city planning and management, land use analysis. It can be the center piece to answer important questions such as planning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Sandeep Singh , Christian Wiles , Ahmed Bilal

The study and prediction of space weather entails the analysis of solar images showing structures of the Sun's atmosphere. When imaged from the Earth's ground, images may be polluted by terrestrial clouds which hinder the detection of solar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Amal Chaoui , Jay Paul Morgan , Adeline Paiement , Jean Aboudarham

Estimating building footprint maps from geospatial data is of paramount importance in urban planning, development, disaster management, and various other applications. Deep learning methodologies have gained prominence in building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Anuja Vats , David Völgyes , Martijn Vermeer , Marius Pedersen , Kiran Raja , Daniele S. M. Fantin , Jacob Alexander Hay

The goal of cross-view image based geo-localization is to determine the location of a given street view image by matching it against a collection of geo-tagged satellite images. This task is notoriously challenging due to the drastic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Aysim Toker , Qunjie Zhou , Maxim Maximov , Laura Leal-Taixé

Determining the exact latitude and longitude that a photo was taken is a useful and widely applicable task, yet it remains exceptionally difficult despite the accelerated progress of other computer vision tasks. Most previous approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Brandon Clark , Alec Kerrigan , Parth Parag Kulkarni , Vicente Vivanco Cepeda , Mubarak Shah

Cracks provide an essential indicator of infrastructure performance degradation, and achieving high-precision pixel-level crack segmentation is an issue of concern. Unlike the common research paradigms that adopt novel artificial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Zhili He , Wang Chen , Jian Zhang , Yu-Hsing Wang

Building coverage statistics provide crucial insights into the urbanization, infrastructure, and poverty level of a region, facilitating efforts towards alleviating poverty, building sustainable cities, and allocating infrastructure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Enci Liu , Chenlin Meng , Matthew Kolodner , Eun Jee Sung , Sihang Chen , Marshall Burke , David Lobell , Stefano Ermon

We address the problem of ground-to-satellite image geo-localization, that is, estimating the camera latitude, longitude and orientation (azimuth angle) by matching a query image captured at the ground level against a large-scale database…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yujiao Shi , Xin Yu , Liu Liu , Dylan Campbell , Piotr Koniusz , Hongdong Li

Medical ultrasound is widely used technique for diagnosing internal organs. As common artifacts, shadows often appear in ultrasound images. Detecting such shadows is curious because they prevent accurate diagnosis. In this paper, we propose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-08 Suguru Yasutomi , Tatsuya Arakaki , Ryuji Hamamoto

Accurate and robust localization is crucial for supporting high-level driving automation and safety. Modern localization solutions rely on various sensors, among which GPS has been and will continue to be essential. However, GPS can be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Feilong Wang , Yuan Hong , Jeff Ban

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a novel paradigm for 3D reconstruction from satellite imagery. However, in multi-temporal satellite images, prevalent shadows exhibit significant inconsistencies due to varying illumination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Feng Luo , Hongbo Pan , Xiang Yang , Baoyu Jiang , Fengqing Liu , Tao Huang

In the last several years, remote sensing technology has opened up the possibility of performing large scale building detection from satellite imagery. Our work is some of the first to create population density maps from building detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Amy Zhang , Xianming Liu , Andreas Gros , Tobias Tiecke