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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

For satellite images, the presence of clouds presents a problem as clouds obscure more than half to two-thirds of the ground information. This problem causes many issues for reliability in a noise-free environment to communicate data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Dale Chen-Song , Erfan Khalaji , Vaishali Rani

We consider the problem of removing and replacing clouds in satellite image sequences, which has a wide range of applications in remote sensing. Our approach first detects and removes the cloud-contaminated part of the image sequences. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-14 Jialei Wang , Peder A. Olsen , Andrew R. Conn , Aurelie C. Lozano

Satellite images hold great promise for continuous environmental monitoring and earth observation. Occlusions cast by clouds, however, can severely limit coverage, making ground information extraction more difficult. Existing pipelines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Vishnu Sarukkai , Anirudh Jain , Burak Uzkent , Stefano Ermon

Cloud removal is a relevant topic in Remote Sensing as it fosters the usability of high-resolution optical images for Earth monitoring and study. Related techniques have been analyzed for years with a progressively clearer view of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Alessandro Sebastianelli , Artur Nowakowski , Erika Puglisi , Maria Pia Del Rosso , Jamila Mifdal , Fiora Pirri , Pierre Philippe Mathieu , Silvia Liberata Ullo

Clouds and haze often occlude optical satellite images, hindering continuous, dense monitoring of the Earth's surface. Although modern deep learning methods can implicitly learn to ignore such occlusions, explicit cloud removal as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Patrick Ebel , Vivien Sainte Fare Garnot , Michael Schmitt , Jan Dirk Wegner , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Cloud removal is an essential task in remote sensing data analysis. As the image sensors are distant from the earth ground, it is likely that part of the area of interests is covered by cloud. Moreover, the atmosphere in between creates a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Yi Guo , Feng Li , Zhuo Wang

Cloud detection is a pivotal satellite image pre-processing step that can be performed both on the ground and on board a satellite to tag useful images. In the latter case, it can help to reduce the amount of data to downlink by pruning the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Bartosz Grabowski , Maciej Ziaja , Michal Kawulok , Nicolas Longépé , Bertrand Le Saux , Jakub Nalepa

This work explores capabilities of the pre-trained CLIP vision-language model to identify satellite images affected by clouds. Several approaches to using the model to perform cloud presence detection are proposed and evaluated, including a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Mikolaj Czerkawski , Robert Atkinson , Christos Tachtatzis

Cloud detection in satellite images is an important first-step in many remote sensing applications. This problem is more challenging when only a limited number of spectral bands are available. To address this problem, a deep learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Sorour Mohajerani , Parvaneh Saeedi

Segmenting clouds in high-resolution satellite images is an arduous and challenging task due to the many types of geographies and clouds a satellite can capture. Therefore, it needs to be automated and optimized, specially for those who…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Giorgio Morales , Alejandro Ramírez , Joel Telles

This work has been accepted by IEEE TGRS for publication. The majority of optical observations acquired via spaceborne earth imagery are affected by clouds. While there is numerous prior work on reconstructing cloud-covered information,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-07 Patrick Ebel , Andrea Meraner , Michael Schmitt , Xiaoxiang Zhu

With the increasing availability of optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images thanks to the Sentinel constellation, and the explosion of deep learning, new methods have emerged in recent years to tackle the reconstruction of optical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Rémi Cresson , Nicolas Narçon , Raffaele Gaetano , Aurore Dupuis , Yannick Tanguy , Stéphane May , Benjamin Commandre

We present a deep learning model with temporal memory to detect clouds in image time series acquired by the Seviri imager mounted on the Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) satellite. The model provides pixel-level cloud maps with related…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-12-21 Devis Tuia , Benjamin Kellenberger , Adrian Pérez-Suay , Gustau Camps-Valls

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

Clouds in satellite images are a deterrent to qualitative and quantitative study. Time compositing methods compare a series of co-registered images and retrieve only those pixels that have comparatively lesser cloud cover for the resultant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-14 Atma Bharathi Mani , Nagashree TR , Manavalan P , Diwakar PG

In this report, we have analyzed available cloud detection technique using sentinel hub. We have also implemented spatial attention generative adversarial network and improved quality of generated image compared to previous solution [7].

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Rutvik Chauhan , Antarpuneet Singh , Sujoy Saha

We develop a new estimation technique for recovering depth-of-field from multiple stereo images. Depth-of-field is estimated by determining the shift in image location resulting from different camera viewpoints. When this shift is not…

Applications · Statistics 2009-10-07 E. Anderes , B. Yu , V. Jovanovic , C. Moroney , M. Garay , A. Braverman , E. Clothiaux

Super-resolution aims at increasing image resolution by algorithmic means and has progressed over the recent years due to advances in the fields of computer vision and deep learning. Convolutional Neural Networks based on a variety of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 M. U. Müller , N. Ekhtiari , R. M. Almeida , C. Rieke

Satellite imaging has a central role in monitoring, detecting and estimating the intensity of key natural phenomena. One important feature of satellite images is the trade-off between spatial/spectral resolution and their revisiting time, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-28 Haoqing Li , Bhavia Duvviri , Ricardo Borsoi , Tales Imbiriba , Edward Beighley , Deniz Erdogmus , Pau Closas
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