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The goal of field boundary delineation is to predict the polygonal boundaries and interiors of individual crop fields in overhead remotely sensed images (e.g., from satellites or drones). Automatic delineation of field boundaries is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Hannah Kerner , Saketh Sundar , Mathan Satish

Transfer Learning methods are widely used in satellite image segmentation problems and improve performance upon classical supervised learning methods. In this study, we present a semantic segmentation method that allows us to make land…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Metehan Yalçın , Ahmet Alp Kındıroğlu , Furkan Burak Bağcı , Ufuk Uyan , Mahiye Uluyağmur Öztürk

Object detection is essential in space applications targeting Space Domain Awareness and also applications involving relative navigation scenarios. Current deep learning models for Object Detection in space applications are often trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Samet Hicsonmez , Abd El Rahman Shabayek , Arunkumar Rathinam , Djamila Aouada

Domain shift caused by, e.g., different geographical regions or acquisition conditions is a common issue in machine learning for global scale satellite image processing. A promising method to address this problem is domain adaptation, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Fahong Zhang , Yilei Shi , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Land Cover (LC) mapping using satellite imagery is critical for environmental monitoring and management. Deep Learning (DL), particularly Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs), have revolutionized this field by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Luigi Russo , Antonietta Sorriso , Silvia Liberata Ullo , Paolo Gamba

Most contemporary robots have depth sensors, and research on semantic segmentation with RGBD images has shown that depth images boost the accuracy of segmentation. Since it is time-consuming to annotate images with semantic labels per…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Kohei Watanabe , Kuniaki Saito , Yoshitaka Ushiku , Tatsuya Harada

The classification of large-scale high-resolution SAR land cover images acquired by satellites is a challenging task, facing several difficulties such as semantic annotation with expertise, changing data characteristics due to varying…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-09 Zhongling Huang , Corneliu Octavian Dumitru , Zongxu Pan , Bin Lei , Mihai Datcu

The interest for change detection in the field of remote sensing has increased in the last few years. Searching for changes in satellite images has many useful applications, ranging from land cover and land use analysis to anomaly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Antonio Di Pilato , Nicolò Taggio , Alexis Pompili , Michele Iacobellis , Adriano Di Florio , Davide Passarelli , Sergio Samarelli

This paper presents a change detection method that identifies land cover changes from aerial imagery, using semantic segmentation, a machine learning approach. We present a land cover classification training pipeline with Deeplab v3+,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Renee Su , Rong Chen

Estimating the number of buildings in any geographical region is a vital component of urban analysis, disaster management, and public policy decision. Deep learning methods for building localization and counting in satellite imagery, can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Muaaz Zakria , Hamza Rawal , Waqas Sultani , Mohsen Ali

Despite their success in many computer vision tasks, convolutional networks tend to require large amounts of labeled data to achieve generalization. Furthermore, the performance is not guaranteed on a sample from an unseen domain at test…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Ozan Ciga , Jianan Chen , Anne Martel

In astronomy, neural networks are often trained on simulation data with the prospect of being used on telescope observations. Unfortunately, training a model on simulation data and then applying it to instrument data leads to a substantial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-16 A. Ćiprijanović , D. Kafkes , K. Downey , S. Jenkins , G. N. Perdue , S. Madireddy , T. Johnston , G. F. Snyder , B. Nord

Deep learning has become one of remote sensing scientists' most efficient computer vision tools in recent years. However, the lack of training labels for the remote sensing datasets means that scientists need to solve the domain adaptation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Mikhail Sokolov , Christopher Henry , Joni Storie , Christopher Storie , Victor Alhassan , Mathieu Turgeon-Pelchat

Recent work has shown that deep learning models can be used to classify land-use data from geospatial satellite imagery. We show that when these deep learning models are trained on data from specific continents/seasons, there is a high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Lucas Hu , Caleb Robinson , Bistra Dilkina

Geographic variance in satellite imagery impacts the ability of machine learning models to generalise to new regions. In this paper, we model geographic generalisation in medium resolution Landsat-8 satellite imagery as a continuous domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Samar Khanna , Bram Wallace , Kavita Bala , Bharath Hariharan

This paper presents the preliminary findings of a semi-supervised segmentation method for extracting roads from sattelite images. Artificial Neural Networks and image segmentation methods are among the most successful methods for extracting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Ahmet Alp Kindiroglu , Metehan Yalçın , Furkan Burak Bağcı , Mahiye Uluyağmur Öztürk

In training machine learning models for land cover semantic segmentation there is a stark contrast between the availability of satellite imagery to be used as inputs and ground truth data to enable supervised learning. While thousands of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Michail Tarasiou , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Recent deep learning methods for object detection rely on a large amount of bounding box annotations. Collecting these annotations is laborious and costly, yet supervised models do not generalize well when testing on images from a different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Han-Kai Hsu , Chun-Han Yao , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Wei-Chih Hung , Hung-Yu Tseng , Maneesh Singh , Ming-Hsuan Yang

The domain adaptation of satellite images has recently gained an increasing attention to overcome the limited generalization abilities of machine learning models when segmenting large-scale satellite images. Most of the existing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Onur Tasar , Alain Giros , Yuliya Tarabalka , Pierre Alliez , Sébastien Clerc

Getting precise aspects of road through segmentation from remote sensing imagery is useful for many real-world applications such as autonomous vehicles, urban development and planning, and achieving sustainable development goals. Roads are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Javed Iqbal , Aliza Masood , Waqas Sultani , Mohsen Ali