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In recent years, semantic segmentation has become a pivotal tool in processing and interpreting satellite imagery. Yet, a prevalent limitation of supervised learning techniques remains the need for extensive manual annotations by experts.…

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This report presents design considerations for automatically generating satellite imagery datasets for training machine learning models with emphasis placed on dense classification tasks, e.g. semantic segmentation. The implementation…

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An in-depth comprehension of global land cover is essential in Earth observation, forming the foundation for a multitude of applications. Although remote sensing technology has advanced rapidly, leading to a proliferation of satellite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Zhenghang Yuan , Zhitong Xiong , Lichao Mou , Xiao Xiang Zhu

We present a new dataset, Functional Map of the World (fMoW), which aims to inspire the development of machine learning models capable of predicting the functional purpose of buildings and land use from temporal sequences of satellite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Gordon Christie , Neil Fendley , James Wilson , Ryan Mukherjee

Interpreting remote sensing imagery enables numerous downstream applications ranging from land-use planning to deforestation monitoring. Robustly classifying this data is challenging due to the Earth's geographic diversity. While many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Jonathan Roberts , Kai Han , Samuel Albanie

The abundance and richness of Internet photos of landmarks and cities has led to significant progress in 3D vision over the past two decades, including automated 3D reconstructions of the world's landmarks from tourist photos. However, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Xiaoshi Wu , Hadar Averbuch-Elor , Jin Sun , Noah Snavely

The ability to quickly recognize and learn new visual concepts from limited samples enables humans to swiftly adapt to new environments. This ability is enabled by semantic associations of novel concepts with those that have already been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Zitian Chen , Yanwei Fu , Yinda Zhang , Yu-Gang Jiang , Xiangyang Xue , Leonid Sigal

Remote sensing images are useful for a wide variety of planet monitoring applications, from tracking deforestation to tackling illegal fishing. The Earth is extremely diverse -- the amount of potential tasks in remote sensing images is…

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Maps are a key component in image-based camera localization and visual SLAM systems: they are used to establish geometric constraints between images, correct drift in relative pose estimation, and relocalize cameras after lost tracking. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Samarth Brahmbhatt , Jinwei Gu , Kihwan Kim , James Hays , Jan Kautz

Rendering Wikipedia content through mobile and augmented reality mediums can enable new forms of interaction in urban-focused user communities facilitating learning, communication and knowledge exchange. With this objective in mind, in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Jimin Tan , Anastasios Noulas , Diego Sáez , Rossano Schifanella

The ship-detection task in satellite imagery presents significant obstacles to even the most state of the art segmentation models due to lack of labelled dataset or approaches which are not able to generalize to unseen images. The most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Venkatesh R , Anand Metha

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has demonstrated significant potential in pre-training robust models with limited labeled data, making it particularly valuable for remote sensing (RS) tasks. A common assumption is that pre-training on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Saad Lahrichi , Zion Sheng , Shufan Xia , Kyle Bradbury , Jordan Malof

Recently, there has been significant interest in various supervised machine learning techniques that can help reduce the time and effort consumed by manual interpretation workflows. However, most successful supervised machine learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-17 Yazeed Alaudah , Motaz Alfarraj , Ghassan AlRegib

In Astronomy, a huge amount of image data is generated daily by photometric surveys, which scan the sky to collect data from stars, galaxies and other celestial objects. In this paper, we propose a technique to leverage unlabeled…

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Although large-scale labeled data are essential for deep convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) to learn high-level semantic visual representations, it is time-consuming and impractical to collect and annotate large-scale datasets. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Huili Huang , M. Mahdi Roozbahani

Automatic supervised classification with complex modelling such as deep neural networks requires the availability of representative training data sets. While there exists a plethora of data sets that can be used for this purpose, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Vasileios Syrris , Ondrej Pesek , Pierre Soille

Foundational mapping remains a challenge in many parts of the world, particularly in dynamic scenarios such as natural disasters when timely updates are critical. Updating maps is currently a highly manual process requiring a large number…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Adam Van Etten , Dave Lindenbaum , Todd M. Bacastow

Recent success of semantic segmentation approaches on demanding road driving datasets has spurred interest in many related application fields. Many of these applications involve real-time prediction on mobile platforms such as cars, drones…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Marin Oršić , Ivan Krešo , Petra Bevandić , Siniša Šegvić

Combining satellite imagery with machine learning (SIML) has the potential to address global challenges by remotely estimating socioeconomic and environmental conditions in data-poor regions, yet the resource requirements of SIML limit its…

Semantic segmentation of satellite imagery is crucial for Earth observation applications, but remains constrained by limited labelled training data. While self-supervised pretraining methods like Masked Autoencoders (MAE) have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 John Waithaka , Moise Busogi