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Fall detection, particularly critical for high-risk demographics like the elderly, is a key public health concern where timely detection can greatly minimize harm. With the advancements in radio frequency technology, radar has emerged as a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Shuting Hu , Siyang Cao , Nima Toosizadeh , Jennifer Barton , Melvin G. Hector , Mindy J. Fain

Hydrometric forecasting is crucial for managing water resources, flood prediction, and environmental protection. Water stations are interconnected, and this connectivity influences the measurements at other stations. However, the dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Naghmeh Shafiee Roudbari , Ursula Eicker , Charalambos Poullis , Zachary Patterson

With the goal of making high-resolution forecasts of regional rainfall, precipitation nowcasting has become an important and fundamental technology underlying various public services ranging from rainstorm warnings to flight safety.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Xingjian Shi , Zhihan Gao , Leonard Lausen , Hao Wang , Dit-Yan Yeung , Wai-kin Wong , Wang-chun Woo

This study evaluates the effectiveness of three-dimensional variational (3D-Var) data assimilation coupled with a Rapid Update Cycle (RUC) framework for improving short-range precipitation forecasts over the Indonesian Maritime Continent…

Accurate and timely rain prediction is crucial for decision making and is also a challenging task. This paper presents a solution which won the 2 nd prize in the Weather4cast 2022 NeurIPS competition using 3D U-Nets and EarthFormers for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Yang Li , Haiyu Dong , Zuliang Fang , Jonathan Weyn , Pete Luferenko

The accuracy and explainability of data-driven nowcasting models are of great importance in many socio-economic sectors reliant on weather-dependent decision making. This paper proposes a novel architecture called Small Attention Residual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Mathieu Renault , Siamak Mehrkanoon

Atmospheric visibility is a critical variable for transportation safety and air quality management, however, accurate prediction remains challenging due to the complex interactions between meteorological conditions and air pollutants, as…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Bong Gyun Shin , Chan Sik Lee , Hyesun Suh

We applied a variety of parametric and non-parametric machine learning models to predict the probability distribution of rainfall based on 1M training examples over a single year across several U.S. states. Our top performing model based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Adam Lesnikowski

Short-term water demand forecasting (StWDF) is the foundation stone in the derivation of an optimal plan for controlling water supply systems. Deep learning (DL) approaches provide the most accurate solutions for this purpose. However, they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Tony Salloom , Okyay Kaynak , Wei He

This paper presents an innovative approach to extreme precipitation nowcasting by employing Transformer-based generative models, namely NowcastingGPT with Extreme Value Loss (EVL) regularization. Leveraging a comprehensive dataset from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Cristian Meo , Ankush Roy , Mircea Lică , Junzhe Yin , Zeineb Bou Che , Yanbo Wang , Ruben Imhoff , Remko Uijlenhoet , Justin Dauwels

Varying weather conditions, including rainfall and snowfall, are generally regarded as a challenge for computer vision algorithms. One proposed solution to the challenges induced by rain and snowfall is to artificially remove the rain from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Chris H. Bahnsen , Thomas B. Moeslund

Robust sensing and perception in adverse weather conditions remain one of the biggest challenges for realizing reliable autonomous vehicle mobility services. Prior work has established that rainfall rate is a useful measure for the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-26 Robin Karlsson , David Robert Wong , Kazunari Kawabata , Simon Thompson , Naoki Sakai

In this technical report we compare different deep learning models for prediction of water depth rasters at high spatial resolution. Efficient, accurate, and fast methods for water depth prediction are nowadays important as urban floods are…

Changing climate signals and the continuous world population growth requires proper hydrologic risk analysis to build and operate water resource infrastructures in a sustainable way. Although modernized computational facilities are becoming…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-08-30 Victor Peñaranda , David Serrano , Mahesh Maskey

We present, motivate, and evaluate Radar Maxima, a calibrated area-based probabilistic forecast product for heavy precipitation. It is designed to overcome inherent limitations of point-based forecasts, which often yield low probabilities…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 Reinhold Hess

Weather forecasting is essential for facilitating diverse socio-economic activity and environmental conservation initiatives. Deep learning techniques are increasingly being explored as complementary approaches to Numerical Weather…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Marco Turzi , Siamak Mehrkanoon

When providing the boundary conditions for hydrological flood models and estimating the associated risk, interpolating precipitation at very high temporal resolutions (e.g. 5 minutes) is essential not to miss the cause of flooding in local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Michiaki Tatsubori , Takao Moriyama , Tatsuya Ishikawa , Paolo Fraccaro , Anne Jones , Blair Edwards , Julian Kuehnert , Sekou L. Remy

Ensemble data assimilation in flood forecasting depends strongly on the density, frequency and statistics of errors associated with the observation network. This work focuses on the assimilation of 2D flood extent data, expressed in terms…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-24 Thanh Huy Nguyen , Sophie Ricci , Andrea Piacentini , Raquel Rodriguez Suquet , Gwendoline Blanchet , Santiago Pena Luque , Peter Kettig

This work addresses the challenge of short-term precipitation forecasting by applying Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory (ConvLSTM) neural networks to weather radar data from the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI). The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Petros Demetrakopoulos

In computer vision applications, the visibility of the video content is crucial to perform analysis for better accuracy. The visibility can be affected by several atmospheric interferences in challenging weather-one of them is the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-13 Muhammad Rafiqul Islam , Manoranjan Paul