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Despite recent advancements in image generation, diffusion models still remain largely underexplored in Earth Observation. In this paper we show that state-of-the-art pretrained diffusion models can be conditioned on cartographic data to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Miguel Espinosa , Elliot J. Crowley

Frequent, high-resolution remote sensing imagery is crucial for agricultural and environmental monitoring. Satellites from the Landsat collection offer detailed imagery at 30m resolution but with lower temporal frequency, whereas missions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Bharath Irigireddy , Varaprasad Bandaru

Accurately quantifying the increased risks of climate extremes requires generating large ensembles of climate realization across a wide range of emissions scenarios, which is computationally challenging for conventional Earth System Models.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-08-22 Mengze Wang , Benedikt Barthel Sorensen , Themistoklis Sapsis

Seismic wave generation creates labeled waveform datasets for source parameter inversion, subsurface analysis, and, notably, training artificial intelligence seismology models. Traditionally, seismic wave generation has been time-consuming,…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-09-23 Longfei Duan , Zicheng Zhang , Lianqing Zhou , Congying Han , Lei Bai , Tiande Guo , Cuiping Zhao

We propose a generative model that can infer a distribution for the underlying spatial signal conditioned on sparse samples e.g. plausible images given a few observed pixels. In contrast to sequential autoregressive generative models, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Shubham Tulsiani , Abhinav Gupta

In this study, we explore building a two-stage framework for enabling users to directly manipulate high-level attributes of a natural scene. The key to our approach is a deep generative network which can hallucinate images of a scene as if…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Levent Karacan , Zeynep Akata , Aykut Erdem , Erkut Erdem

Urban heatwaves, droughts, and land degradation are pressing and growing challenges in the context of climate change. A valuable approach to studying them requires accurate spatio-temporal information on land surface conditions. One of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Sofiane Bouaziz , Adel Hafiane , Raphael Canals , Rachid Nedjai

Image generation and image completion are rapidly evolving fields, thanks to machine learning algorithms that are able to realistically replace missing pixels. However, generating large high resolution images, with a large level of details,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Renato Cardoso , Sofia Vallecorsa , Edoardo Nemni

Real-time satellite imaging has a central role in monitoring, detecting and estimating the intensity of key natural phenomena such as floods, earthquakes, etc. One important constraint of satellite imaging is the trade-off between…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-09 Haoqing Li , Bhavya Duvvuri , Ricardo Borsoi , Tales Imbiriba , Edward Beighley , Deniz Erdogmus , Pau Closas

In this paper, we propose novel generative models for creating adversarial examples, slightly perturbed images resembling natural images but maliciously crafted to fool pre-trained models. We present trainable deep neural networks for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Omid Poursaeed , Isay Katsman , Bicheng Gao , Serge Belongie

Generative AI offers new opportunities for automating urban planning by creating site-specific urban layouts and enabling flexible design exploration. However, existing approaches often struggle to produce realistic and practical designs at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Qingyi Wang , Yuebing Liang , Yunhan Zheng , Kaiyuan Xu , Jinhua Zhao , Shenhao Wang

As deep learning technology continues to evolve, the images yielded by generative models are becoming more and more realistic, triggering people to question the authenticity of images. Existing generated image detection methods detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Xiuli Bi , Bo Liu , Fan Yang , Bin Xiao , Weisheng Li , Gao Huang , Pamela C. Cosman

Downscaling, or super-resolution, provides decision-makers with detailed, high-resolution information about the potential risks and impacts of climate change, based on climate model output. Machine learning algorithms are proving themselves…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Robbie A. Watt , Laura A. Mansfield

Computers are widely utilized in today's weather forecasting as a powerful tool to leverage an enormous amount of data. Yet, despite the availability of such data, current techniques often fall short of producing reliable detailed storm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Yu Zhang , Stephen Wistar , Jia Li , Michael Steinberg , James Z. Wang

In light of growing threats posed by climate change in general and sea level rise (SLR) in particular, the necessity for computationally efficient means to estimate and analyze potential coastal flood hazards has become increasingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Areg Karapetyan , Aaron Chung Hin Chow , Samer Madanat

In this study, we introduce a novel approach to synthesizing subsurface velocity models using diffusion generative models. Conventional methods rely on extensive, high-quality datasets, which are often inaccessible in subsurface…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-06-11 Huseyin Tuna Erdinc , Rafael Orozco , Felix J. Herrmann

Machine learning (ML) offers a computationally efficient approach for generating large ensembles of high-resolution climate projections, but deterministic ML methods often smooth fine-scale structures and underestimate extremes. While…

Existing approaches for restoring weather-degraded images follow a fully-supervised paradigm and they require paired data for training. However, collecting paired data for weather degradations is extremely challenging, and existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Rajeev Yasarla , Vishwanath A. Sindagi , Vishal M. Patel

Urban development has been a defining force in human history, shaping cities for centuries. However, past studies mostly analyze such development as predictive tasks, failing to reflect its generative nature. Therefore, this study designs a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Kailai Sun , Yuebing Liang , Mingyi He , Yunhan Zheng , Alok Prakash , Shenhao Wang , Jinhua Zhao , Alex "Sandy'' Pentland

We explore the potential of feed-forward deep neural networks (DNNs) for emulating cloud superparameterization in realistic geography, using offline fits to data from the Super Parameterized Community Atmospheric Model. To identify the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Griffin Mooers , Mike Pritchard , Tom Beucler , Jordan Ott , Galen Yacalis , Pierre Baldi , Pierre Gentine