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Cloud contamination significantly impairs the usability of optical satellite imagery, affecting critical applications such as environmental monitoring, disaster response, and land-use analysis. This research presents a Cloud-Attentive…
We have developed a method that maps large astronomical images onto a two-dimensional map and clusters them. A combination of various state-of-the-art machine learning (ML) algorithms is used to develop a fully unsupervised image quality…
In this paper, we propose in our novel generative framework the use of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to generate features that provide robustness for object detection on reduced quality images. The proposed GAN-based Detection of…
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The quality of images captured in outdoor environments can be affected by poor weather conditions such as fog, dust, and atmospheric scattering of other particles. This problem can bring extra challenges to high-level computer vision tasks…
Remote sensing change detection between bi-temporal images receives growing concentration from researchers. However, comparing two bi-temporal images for detecting changes is challenging, as they demonstrate different appearances. In this…
We apply a Machine Learning technique known as Convolutional Denoising Autoencoder to denoise synthetic images of state-of-the-art radio telescopes, with the goal of detecting the faint, diffused radio sources predicted to characterise the…
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Multi-image super-resolution, which aims to fuse and restore a high-resolution image from multiple images at the same location, is crucial for utilizing satellite images. The satellite images are often occluded by atmospheric disturbances…
In recent years, the rapid development of generative artificial intelligence technology has significantly lowered the barrier to creating high-quality fake images, posing a serious challenge to information authenticity and credibility.…
In this work, we introduce Gradient Siamese Network (GSN) for image quality assessment. The proposed method is skilled in capturing the gradient features between distorted images and reference images in full-reference image quality…
Most ground-based observatories are equipped with wide-angle all-sky cameras to monitor the night sky conditions. Such camera systems can be used to provide early warning of incoming clouds that can pose a danger to the telescope equipment…
The uncertainty of the energy generated by photovoltaic systems incurs an additional cost for a guaranteed, reliable supply of energy (i.e., energy storage). This investigation aims to decrease the additional cost by introducing…
SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) imaging plays a central role in Remote Sensing due to, among other important features, its ability to provide high-resolution, day-and-night and almost weather-independent images. SAR images are affected from…
Deep learning techniques have revolutionized the fields of image restoration and image quality assessment in recent years. While image restoration methods typically utilize synthetically distorted training data for training, deep quality…
Adversarial attack perturbs an image with an imperceptible noise, leading to incorrect model prediction. Recently, a few works showed inherent bias associated with such attack (robustness bias), where certain subgroups in a dataset (e.g.…