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Detecting clouds and snow in remote sensing images is an essential preprocessing task for remote sensing imagery. Previous works draw inspiration from semantic segmentation models in computer vision, with most research focusing on improving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Zili Liu , Hao Chen , Wenyuan Li , Keyan Chen , Zipeng Qi , Chenyang Liu , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Shi

Shadows are a common factor degrading image quality. Single-image shadow removal (SR), particularly under challenging indirect illumination, is hampered by non-uniform content degradation and inherent ambiguity. Consequently, traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Yu-Fan Lin , Chia-Ming Lee , Chih-Chung Hsu

For passive satellite imagers, current retrievals of cloud optical thickness and effective particle size fail for convective clouds with 3D morphology. Indeed, being based on 1D radiative transfer (RT) theory, they work well only for…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-07-13 Linda Forster , Anthony B. Davis , David J. Diner , Bernhard Mayer

This paper proposes a spatiotemporal (ST) fusion framework robust against diverse noise for satellite images, named Temporally-Similar Structure-Aware ST fusion (TSSTF). ST fusion is a promising approach to address the trade-off between the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Ryosuke Isono , Shunsuke Ono

Robust semantic segmentation of VHR remote sensing images from UAV sensors is critical for earth observation, land use, land cover or mapping applications. Several factors such as shadows, weather disruption and camera shakes making this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Yi Peng , Shihao Sun , Zheng Wang , Yining Pan , Ruirui Li

This paper presents a novel method for real-time nighttime cloud detection, tracking, and prediction using all-sky cameras, aimed at enhancing the efficiency of ground-based robotic telescopes. Ground-based telescopes are vulnerable to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-30 Sebastian Buntin , Chris M. Copperwheat , Helen E. Jermak

Recovering textures under shadows has remained a challenging problem due to the difficulty of inferring shadow-free scenes from shadow images. In this paper, we propose the use of diffusion models as they offer a promising approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Kangfu Mei , Luis Figueroa , Zhe Lin , Zhihong Ding , Scott Cohen , Vishal M. Patel

Cloud occlusion significantly hinders remote sensing applications by obstructing surface information and complicating analysis. To address this, we propose DC4CR (Diffusion Control for Cloud Removal), a novel multimodal diffusion-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Zhenyu Yu , Mohd Yamani Idna Idris , Pei Wang

Satellite image time series in the optical and infrared spectrum suffer from frequent data gaps due to cloud cover, cloud shadows, and temporary sensor outages. It has been a long-standing problem of remote sensing research how to best…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Corinne Stucker , Vivien Sainte Fare Garnot , Konrad Schindler

Shadows are a prevalent problem in remote sensing imagery (RSI), degrading visual quality and severely limiting the performance of downstream tasks like object detection and semantic segmentation. Most prior works treat shadow detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Zi-Yang Bo , Wei Lu , Hongruixuan Chen , Si-Bao Chen , Bin Luo

Addressing gaps caused by cloud cover and the long revisit cycle of satellites is vital for providing essential data to support remote sensing applications. This paper tackles the challenges of missing optical data synthesis, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Chenxi Duan

Cloud formations often obscure optical satellite-based monitoring of the Earth's surface, thus limiting Earth observation (EO) activities such as land cover mapping, ocean color analysis, and cropland monitoring. The integration of machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Aleksis Pirinen , Nosheen Abid , Nuria Agues Paszkowsky , Thomas Ohlson Timoudas , Ronald Scheirer , Chiara Ceccobello , György Kovács , Anders Persson

Time-of-Flight (ToF) depth sensing camera is able to obtain depth maps at a high frame rate. However, its low resolution and sensitivity to the noise are always a concern. A popular solution is upsampling the obtained noisy low resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Wei Liu , Yijun Li , Xiaogang Chen , Jie Yang , Qiang Wu , Jingyi Yu

We propose a new superresolution imaging technique for interferometry using sparse modeling, utilizing two regularization terms: the $\ell_1$-norm and a new function named Total Squared Variation (TSV) of the brightness distribution. TSV is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-06 Kazuki Kuramochi , Kazunori Akiyama , Shiro Ikeda , Fumie Tazaki , Vincent L. Fish , Hung-Yi Pu , Keiichi Asada , Mareki Honma

Optical satellite images are a critical data source; however, cloud cover often compromises their quality, hindering image applications and analysis. Consequently, effectively removing clouds from optical satellite images has emerged as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Xuechao Zou , Kai Li , Junliang Xing , Yu Zhang , Shiying Wang , Lei Jin , Pin Tao

Hyperspectral images (HSIs) are often corrupted by a mixture of several types of noise during the acquisition process, e.g., Gaussian noise, impulse noise, dead lines, stripes, and many others. Such complex noise could degrade the quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Yao Wang , Jiangjun Peng , Qian Zhao , Deyu Meng , Yee Leung , Xi-Le Zhao

Image matching is a fundamental and critical task of multisource remote sensing image applications. However, remote sensing images are susceptible to various noises. Accordingly, how to effectively achieve accurate matching in noise images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Yuan Li , Dapeng Wu , Yaping Cui , Peng He , Yuan Zhang , Ruyan Wang

Clouds frequently cover the Earth's surface and pose an omnipresent challenge to optical Earth observation methods. The vast majority of remote sensing approaches either selectively choose single cloud-free observations or employ a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Marc Rußwurm , Marco Körner

Multiresolution image fusion is a key problem for real-time satellite imaging and plays a central role in detecting and monitoring natural phenomena such as floods. It aims to solve the trade-off between temporal and spatial resolution in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Haoqing Li , Ricardo Borsoi , Tales Imbiriba , Pau Closas

Predictive models can be used on high-dimensional brain images for diagnosis of a clinical condition. Spatial regularization through structured sparsity offers new perspectives in this context and reduces the risk of overfitting the model…