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We propose a framework for global-scale canopy height estimation based on satellite data. Our model leverages advanced data preprocessing techniques, resorts to a novel loss function designed to counter geolocation inaccuracies inherent in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Jan Pauls , Max Zimmer , Una M. Kelly , Martin Schwartz , Sassan Saatchi , Philippe Ciais , Sebastian Pokutta , Martin Brandt , Fabian Gieseke

Urban environments are continuously mapped and modeled by various data collection platforms, including satellites, unmanned aerial vehicles and street cameras. The growing availability of 3D geospatial data from multiple modalities has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Bar Genossar , Sagi Dalyot , Roee Shraga , Avigdor Gal

An essential prerequisite for unleashing the potential of supervised deep learning algorithms in the area of 3D scene understanding is the availability of large-scale and richly annotated datasets. However, publicly available datasets are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Qingyong Hu , Bo Yang , Sheikh Khalid , Wen Xiao , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

The analysis of flow around buildings has gained significant research interest across various domains, including pedestrian safety, pollutant dispersion, natural ventilation, and building energy efficiency. While these domains frequently…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-18 Hojin Lee , Andreas Lintermann , Sangseung Lee , Mario Rüttgers

Geospatial applications are becoming indispensible part of information systems, they provides detailed informations regarding the attribute data of spatial objects in real world. Due to the rapid technological developments in web based…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-01-13 Adeyinka K. Akanbi , O. Y Agunbiade

In this work, we present a method for a probabilistic fusion of external depth and onboard proximity data to form a volumetric 3-D map of a robot's environment. We extend the Octomap framework to update a representation of the area around…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Matthew Strong , Caleb Escobedo , Alessandro Roncone

Building rooftop data are of importance in several urban applications and in natural disaster management. In contrast to traditional surveying and mapping, by using high spatial resolution aerial images, deep learning-based building…

Recently released open-source pre-trained foundational image segmentation and object detection models (SAM2+GroundingDINO) allow for geometrically consistent segmentation of objects of interest in multi-view 2D images. Users can use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Kyle Gao , Liangzhi Li , Hongjie He , Dening Lu , Linlin Xu , Jonathan Li

We present techniques to measure crop heights using a 3D Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensor mounted on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). Knowing the height of plants is crucial to monitor their overall health and growth cycles,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Harnaik Dhami , Kevin Yu , Tianshu Xu , Qian Zhu , Kshitiz Dhakal , James Friel , Song Li , Pratap Tokekar

Synthesizing large-scale, explorable, and geometrically accurate 3D urban scenes is a challenging yet valuable task for immersive and embodied applications. The challenge lies in the lack of large-scale and high-quality real-world 3D scans…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Jie-Ying Lee , Yi-Ruei Liu , Shr-Ruei Tsai , Wei-Cheng Chang , Chung-Ho Wu , Jiewen Chan , Zhenjun Zhao , Chieh Hubert Lin , Yu-Lun Liu

Current state-of-the-art 3D reconstruction models face limitations in building extra-large scale outdoor scenes, primarily due to the lack of sufficiently large-scale and detailed datasets. In this paper, we present a extra-large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Xinyi Zheng , Steve Zhang , Weizhe Lin , Aaron Zhang , Walterio W. Mayol-Cuevas , Yunze Liu , Junxiao Shen

Cities are structured by roads. Having up to date and detailed maps of these is thus an important challenge for urban planing, civil engineering and transportation. Those maps are traditionally created manually, which represents a massive…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Remi Cura , Julien Perret , Nicolas Paparoditis

To operate intelligently in domestic environments, robots require the ability to understand arbitrary spatial relations between objects and to generalize them to objects of varying sizes and shapes. In this work, we present a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Philipp Jund , Andreas Eitel , Nichola Abdo , Wolfram Burgard

We study the image-based geolocalization problem, aiming to localize ground-view query images on cartographic maps. Current methods often utilize cross-view localization techniques to match ground-view query images with 2D maps. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Mengjie Zhou , Liu Liu , Yiran Zhong , Andrew Calway

Elevation maps are commonly used to represent the environment of mobile robots and are instrumental for locomotion and navigation tasks. However, pure geometric information is insufficient for many field applications that require appearance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Gian Erni , Jonas Frey , Takahiro Miki , Matias Mattamala , Marco Hutter

Many aggregate distributions of urban activities such as city sizes reveal scaling but hardly any work exists on the properties of spatial distributions within individual cities, notwithstanding considerable knowledge about their fractal…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-09-29 Michael Batty , Rui Carvalho , Andy Hudson-Smith , Richard Milton , Duncan Smith , Philip Steadman

The efficient management and planning of urban energy systems require integrated three-dimensional (3D) models that accurately represent both consumption nodes and distribution networks. This paper introduces our developed approach and…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Shiliang Zhang , Sabita Maharjan

Supervised 3D Object Detection models have been displaying increasingly better performance in single-domain cases where the training data comes from the same environment and sensor as the testing data. However, in real-world scenarios data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Louis Soum-Fontez , Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud , François Goulette

This paper presents a simple yet very effective data-driven approach to fuse both low-level and high-level local geometric features for 3D rigid data matching. It is a common practice to generate distinctive geometric descriptors by fusing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Jiaqi Yang , Chen Zhao , Ke Xian , Angfan Zhu , Zhiguo Cao

In many applications, maintaining a consistent map of the environment is key to enabling robotic platforms to perform higher-level decision making. Detection of already visited locations is one of the primary ways in which map consistency…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Alexander Millane , Helen Oleynikova , Juan Nieto , Roland Siegwart , César Cadena