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Urbanization is advancing rapidly, covering less than 2% of Earth's surface yet profoundly influencing global environments and experiencing disproportionate impacts from extreme weather events. Effective urban management and planning…

In this paper, we attempt to address the challenging problem of counting built-structures in the satellite imagery. Building density is a more accurate estimate of the population density, urban area expansion and its impact on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Anza Shakeel , Waqas Sultani , Mohsen Ali

With the acceleration of the urban expansion, urban change detection (UCD), as a significant and effective approach, can provide the change information with respect to geospatial objects for dynamical urban analysis. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Shiqi Tian , Ailong Ma , Zhuo Zheng , Yanfei Zhong

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

Analyzing the planet at scale with satellite imagery and machine learning is a dream that has been constantly hindered by the cost of difficult-to-access highly-representative high-resolution imagery. To remediate this, we introduce here…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Julien Cornebise , Ivan Oršolić , Freddie Kalaitzis

Estimating the construction year of buildings is critical for advancing sustainability, as older structures often lack energy-efficient features. Sustainable urban planning relies on accurate building age data to reduce energy consumption…

We present Urban-ImageNet, a large-scale multi-modal dataset and evaluation benchmark for urban space perception from user-generated social media imagery. The corpus contains over 2 Million public social media images and paired textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yiwei Ou , Chung Ching Cheung , Jun Yang Ang , Xiaobin Ren , Ronggui Sun , Guansong Gao , Kaiqi Zhao , Manfredo Manfredini

We introduce BuildingNet: (a) a large-scale dataset of 3D building models whose exteriors are consistently labeled, (b) a graph neural network that labels building meshes by analyzing spatial and structural relations of their geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Pratheba Selvaraju , Mohamed Nabail , Marios Loizou , Maria Maslioukova , Melinos Averkiou , Andreas Andreou , Siddhartha Chaudhuri , Evangelos Kalogerakis

Access to labeled reference data is one of the grand challenges in supervised machine learning endeavors. This is especially true for an automated analysis of remote sensing images on a global scale, which enables us to address global…

Synthetic datasets, recognized for their cost effectiveness, play a pivotal role in advancing computer vision tasks and techniques. However, when it comes to remote sensing image processing, the creation of synthetic datasets becomes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jian Song , Hongruixuan Chen , Naoto Yokoya

This paper presents the largest known benchmark dataset for road damage assessment and road alignment, and provides 18 baseline models trained on the CRASAR-U-DRIODs dataset's post-disaster small uncrewed aerial systems (sUAS) imagery from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Thomas Manzini , Priyankari Perali , Raisa Karnik , Robin R. Murphy

Regularly updated and accurate land cover maps are essential for monitoring 14 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Multispectral satellite imagery provide high-quality and valuable information at global scale that can be used to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Hamed Alemohammad , Kevin Booth

Building-change detection underpins many important applications, especially in the military and crisis-management domains. Recent methods used for change detection have shifted towards deep learning, which depends on the quality of its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Li Shen , Yao Lu , Hao Chen , Hao Wei , Donghai Xie , Jiabao Yue , Rui Chen , Shouye Lv , Bitao Jiang

Satellite Image Time Series (SITS) of the Earth's surface provide detailed land cover maps, with their quality in the spatial and temporal dimensions consistently improving. These image time series are integral for developing systems that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 James Brock , Zahraa S. Abdallah

Change Detection (CD) has been attracting extensive interests with the availability of bi-temporal datasets. However, due to the huge cost of multi-temporal images acquisition and labeling, existing change detection datasets are small in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Deyi Ji , Siqi Gao , Mingyuan Tao , Hongtao Lu , Feng Zhao

High-precision navigation and positioning systems are critical for applications in autonomous vehicles and mobile mapping, where robust and continuous localization is essential. To test and enhance the performance of algorithms, some…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Feng Zhu , Zihang Zhang , Kangcheng Teng , Abduhelil Yakup , Xiaohong Zhang

In the last several years, remote sensing technology has opened up the possibility of performing large scale building detection from satellite imagery. Our work is some of the first to create population density maps from building detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Amy Zhang , Xianming Liu , Andreas Gros , Tobias Tiecke

This study presents a novel demographics informed deep learning framework designed to forecast urban spatial transformations by jointly modeling geographic satellite imagery, socio-demographics, and travel behavior dynamics. The proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Eugene Kofi Okrah Denteh , Andrews Danyo , Joshua Kofi Asamoah , Blessing Agyei Kyem , Armstrong Aboah

Automated tracking of urban development in areas where construction information is not available became possible with recent advancements in machine learning and remote sensing. Unfortunately, these solutions perform best on high-resolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-06 Yutong He , William Zhang , Chenlin Meng , Marshall Burke , David B. Lobell , Stefano Ermon

Building recognition and 3D reconstruction of human made structures in urban scenarios has become an interesting and actual topic in the image processing domain. For this research topic the Computer Vision and Augmented Reality areas…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Orhei Ciprian , Vert Silviu , Mocofan Muguras , Vasiu Radu