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Clouds play a key role in regulating climate change but are difficult to simulate within Earth system models (ESMs). Improving the representation of clouds is one of the key tasks towards more robust climate change projections. This study…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 A. Kaps , A. Lauer , G. Camps-Valls , P. Gentine , L. Gómez-Chova , V. Eyring

Detecting and masking cloud and cloud shadow from satellite remote sensing images is a pervasive problem in the remote sensing community. Accurate and efficient detection of cloud and cloud shadow is an essential step to harness the value…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Ke Xu , Kaiyu Guan , Jian Peng , Yunan Luo , Sibo Wang

The complex background in the soil image collected in the field natural environment will affect the subsequent soil image recognition based on machine vision. Segmenting the soil center area from the soil image can eliminate the influence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Yida Chen , Kang Liu , Yi Xin , Xinru Zhao

Cloud detection plays a very important role in the process of remote sensing images. This paper designs a super-pixel level cloud detection method based on convolutional neural network (CNN) and deep forest. Firstly, remote sensing images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Han Liu , Dan Zeng , Qi Tian

Semantic segmentation of satellite imagery is a common approach to identify patterns and detect changes around the planet. Most of the state-of-the-art semantic segmentation models are trained in a fully supervised way using Convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Aditya Kulkarni , Tharun Mohandoss , Daniel Northrup , Ernest Mwebaze , Hamed Alemohammad

For satellite images, the presence of clouds presents a problem as clouds obscure more than half to two-thirds of the ground information. This problem causes many issues for reliability in a noise-free environment to communicate data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Dale Chen-Song , Erfan Khalaji , Vaishali Rani

Ground segmentation is an important preprocessing task for autonomous vehicles (AVs) with 3D LiDARs. To solve the problem of existing ground segmentation methods being very difficult to balance accuracy and computational complexity, a fast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Weixin Huang , Huawei Liang , Linglong Lin , Zhiling Wang , Shaobo Wang , Biao Yu , Runxin Niu

Horizon or skyline detection plays a vital role towards mountainous visual geo-localization, however most of the recently proposed visual geo-localization approaches rely on \textbf{user-in-the-loop} skyline detection methods. Detecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Touqeer Ahmad , Pavel Campr , Martin Čadík , George Bebis

Landmark recognition and matching is a critical step in many Image Navigation and Registration (INR) models for geostationary satellite services, as well as to maintain the geometric quality assessment (GQA) in the instrument data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Adrián Pérez-Suay , Julia Amorós-López , Luis Gómez-Chova , Jordi Muñoz-Marí , Dieter Just , Gustau Camps-Valls

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

Artifacts in imagery captured by remote sensing, such as clouds, snow, and shadows, present challenges for various tasks, including semantic segmentation and object detection. A primary challenge in developing algorithms for identifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Scott Workman , M. Usman Rafique , Hunter Blanton , Connor Greenwell , Nathan Jacobs

Rain streaks will inevitably be captured by some outdoor vision systems, which lowers the image visual quality and also interferes various computer vision applications. We present a novel rain removal method in this paper, which consists of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Yinglong Wang , Shuaicheng Liu , Chen Chen , Dehua Xie , Bing Zeng

LiDAR-based 3D object detection is an important task for autonomous driving and current approaches suffer from sparse and partial point clouds of distant and occluded objects. In this paper, we propose a novel two-stage approach, namely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Yanan Zhang , Di Huang , Yunhong Wang

Semantic segmentation for aerial imagery is a challenging and important problem in remotely sensed imagery analysis. In recent years, with the success of deep learning, various convolutional neural network (CNN) based models have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Panfeng Li , Youzuo Lin , Emily Schultz-Fellenz

Rain removal is important for improving the robustness of outdoor vision based systems. Current rain removal methods show limitations either for complex dynamic scenes shot from fast moving cameras, or under torrential rain fall with opaque…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Jie Chen , Cheen-Hau Tan , Junhui Hou , Lap-Pui Chau , He Li

Hypergraph spectral analysis has emerged as an effective tool processing complex data structures in data analysis. The surface of a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud and the multilateral relationship among their points can be naturally…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Songyang Zhang , Shuguang Cui , Zhi Ding

This paper proposes a novel point-cloud-based place recognition system that adopts a deep learning approach for feature extraction. By using a convolutional neural network pre-trained on color images to extract features from a range image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Ting Sun , Ming Liu , Haoyang Ye , Dit-Yan Yeung

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

Most advances in single image de-raining meet a key challenge, which is removing rain streaks with different scales and shapes while preserving image details. Existing single image de-raining approaches treat rain-streak removal as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Zhe Huang , Weijiang Yu , Wayne Zhang , Litong Feng , Nong Xiao

Given the prominence of current 3D sensors, a fine-grained analysis on the basic point cloud data is worthy of further investigation. Particularly, real point cloud scenes can intuitively capture complex surroundings in the real world, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Shi Qiu , Saeed Anwar , Nick Barnes