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The semantic segmentation of nighttime scenes is a challenging problem that is key to impactful applications like self-driving cars. Yet, it has received little attention compared to its daytime counterpart. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Xueqing Deng , Peng Wang , Xiaochen Lian , Shawn Newsam

Ground segmentation of point clouds remains challenging because of the sparse and unordered data structure. This paper proposes the GSECnet - Ground Segmentation network for Edge Computing, an efficient ground segmentation framework of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Dong He , Jie Cheng , Jong-Hwan Kim

Cloud detection in remote sensing imagery is a fundamental, critical, and highly challenging problem. Existing deep learning-based cloud detection methods generally formulate it as a single-stage pixel-wise binary segmentation task with one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Jiajun Yang , Keyan Chen , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Shi

Automatic detection of shadow regions in an image is a difficult task due to the lack of prior information about the illumination source and the dynamic of the scene objects. To address this problem, in this paper, a deep-learning based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Sorour Mohajerani , Parvaneh Saeedi

Point cloud segmentation is one of the most important tasks in computer vision with widespread scientific, industrial, and commercial applications. The research thereof has resulted in many breakthroughs in 3D object and scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Dening Lu , Jun Zhou , Kyle Yilin Gao , Dilong Li , Jing Du , Linlin Xu , Jonathan Li

In recent years, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have proven to be efficient analysis tools for processing point clouds, e.g., for reconstruction, segmentation and classification. In this paper, we focus on the classification of edges…

Image segmentation is a key topic in image processing and computer vision with applications such as scene understanding, medical image analysis, robotic perception, video surveillance, augmented reality, and image compression, among many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Shervin Minaee , Yuri Boykov , Fatih Porikli , Antonio Plaza , Nasser Kehtarnavaz , Demetri Terzopoulos

Point cloud analysis is attracting attention from Artificial Intelligence research since it can be widely used in applications such as robotics, Augmented Reality, self-driving. However, it is always challenging due to irregularities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Shi Qiu , Saeed Anwar , Nick Barnes

As the basic task of point cloud analysis, classification is fundamental but always challenging. To address some unsolved problems of existing methods, we propose a network that captures geometric features of point clouds for better…

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

In this article we describe a new convolutional neural network (CNN) to classify 3D point clouds of urban or indoor scenes. Solutions are given to the problems encountered working on scene point clouds, and a network is described that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Xavier Roynard , Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud , François Goulette

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

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

Image segmentation, the process of partitioning an image into meaningful regions, plays a pivotal role in computer vision and medical imaging applications. Unsupervised segmentation, particularly in the absence of labeled data, remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Kovvuri Sai Gopal Reddy , Bodduluri Saran , A. Mudit Adityaja , Saurabh J. Shigwan , Nitin Kumar

Accurate identification of unobservable regions in nighttime is essential for autonomous scheduling and data quality control in observations.Traditional methods-such as infrared sensing or photometric extinction-provide only…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-23 Jian Cui , Guo-Wang Du , Xin-Zhong Er , Chu-Xiang Li , Jun-Fan Hou , Yu-Xin Xin , Xiang-kun Liu , Xiao-Wei Liu

Cloud detection from remotely observed data is a critical pre-processing step for various remote sensing applications. In particular, this problem becomes even harder for RGB color images, since there is no distinct spectral pattern for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Savas Ozkan , Mehmet Efendioglu , Caner Demirpolat

Clouds are a common phenomenon that distorts optical satellite imagery, which poses a challenge for remote sensing. However, in the literature cloudless analysis is often performed where cloudy images are excluded from machine learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Marco Stricker , Masakazu Iwamura , Koichi Kise

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown outstanding performance in the task of semantically segmenting images. Applying the same methods on 3D data still poses challenges due to the heavy memory requirements and the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Radu Alexandru Rosu , Peer Schütt , Jan Quenzel , Sven Behnke

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

Extracting information related to weather and visual conditions at a given time and space is indispensable for scene awareness, which strongly impacts our behaviours, from simply walking in a city to riding a bike, driving a car, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Mohamed R. Ibrahim , James Haworth , Tao Cheng

Buildings' segmentation is a fundamental task in the field of earth observation and aerial imagery analysis. Most existing deep learning-based methods in the literature can be applied to a fixed or narrow-range spatial resolution imagery.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Hasan Nasrallah , Mustafa Shukor , Ali J. Ghandour