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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

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

We present Surf-NeRF, a modified implementation of the recently introduced Shadow Neural Radiance Field (S-NeRF) model. This method is able to synthesize novel views from a sparse set of satellite images of a scene, while accounting for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Federico Semeraro , Yi Zhang , Wenying Wu , Patrick Carroll

A satellite image is a remotely sensed image data, where each pixel represents a specific location on earth. The pixel value recorded is the reflection radiation from the earth's surface at that location. Multispectral images are those that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Purbarag Pathak Choudhury , Ujjal Kr Dutta , Dhruba Kr Bhattacharyya

The study and prediction of space weather entails the analysis of solar images showing structures of the Sun's atmosphere. When imaged from the Earth's ground, images may be polluted by terrestrial clouds which hinder the detection of solar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Amal Chaoui , Jay Paul Morgan , Adeline Paiement , Jean Aboudarham

We propose a novel approach for rapid segmentation of flooded buildings by fusing multiresolution, multisensor, and multitemporal satellite imagery in a convolutional neural network. Our model significantly expedites the generation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Tim G. J. Rudner , Marc Rußwurm , Jakub Fil , Ramona Pelich , Benjamin Bischke , Veronika Kopackova , Piotr Bilinski

Recovering high-fidelity images of the night sky from blurred observations is a fundamental problem in astronomy, where traditional methods typically fall short. In ground-based astronomy, combining multiple exposures to enhance…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-04 Yashil Sukurdeep , Fausto Navarro , Tamás Budavári

This work utilizes a MobileNetV2 Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for fast, mobile detection of satellites, and rejection of stars, in cluttered unresolved space imagery. First, a custom database is created using imagery from a synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Jarred Jordan , Daniel Posada , David Zuehlke , Angelica Radulovic , Aryslan Malik , Troy Henderson

Sea Surface Temperature (SST) reconstructions from satellite images affected by cloud gaps have been extensively documented in the past three decades. Here we describe several Machine Learning models to fill the cloud-occluded areas…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Andrea Asperti , Ali Aydogdu , Angelo Greco , Fabio Merizzi , Pietro Miraglio , Beniamino Tartufoli , Alessandro Testa , Nadia Pinardi , Paolo Oddo

Semantic segmentation by convolutional neural networks (CNN) has advanced the state of the art in pixel-level classification of remote sensing images. However, processing large images typically requires analyzing the image in small patches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Markku Luotamo , Sari Metsämäki , Arto Klami

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

Multi-channel satellite imagery, from stacked spectral bands or spatiotemporal data, have meaningful representations for various atmospheric properties. Combining these features in an effective manner to create a performant and trustworthy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Jason Stock , Chuck Anderson

Imaging the atmosphere using ground-based sky cameras is a popular approach to study various atmospheric phenomena. However, it usually focuses on the daytime. Nighttime sky/cloud images are darker and noisier, and thus harder to analyze.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Soumyabrata Dev , Florian M. Savoy , Yee Hui Lee , Stefan Winkler

About half of all optical observations collected via spaceborne satellites are affected by haze or clouds. Consequently, cloud coverage affects the remote sensing practitioner's capabilities of a continuous and seamless monitoring of our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Patrick Ebel , Yajin Xu , Michael Schmitt , Xiaoxiang Zhu

Because of the internal malfunction of satellite sensors and poor atmospheric conditions such as thick cloud, the acquired remote sensing data often suffer from missing information, i.e., the data usability is greatly reduced. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Qiang Zhang , Qiangqiang Yuan , Chao Zeng , Xinghua Li , Yancong Wei

This paper presents a deep-learning based framework for addressing the problem of accurate cloud detection in remote sensing images. This framework benefits from a Fully Convolutional Neural Network (FCN), which is capable of pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Sorour Mohajerani , Thomas A. Krammer , Parvaneh Saeedi

We introduce the Satellite Neural Radiance Field (Sat-NeRF), a new end-to-end model for learning multi-view satellite photogrammetry in the wild. Sat-NeRF combines some of the latest trends in neural rendering with native satellite camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Roger Marí , Gabriele Facciolo , Thibaud Ehret

Remote sensing images often suffer from cloud cover. Cloud removal is required in many applications of remote sensing images. Multitemporal-based methods are popular and effective to cope with thick clouds. This paper contributes to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Chengyue Zhang , Zhiwei Li , Qing Cheng , Xinghua Li , Huanfeng Shen

The reconstruction of accurate three-dimensional environment models is one of the most fundamental goals in the field of photogrammetry. Since satellite images provide suitable properties for obtaining large-scale environment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Sebastian Bullinger , Christoph Bodensteiner , Michael Arens

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-17 Minji Lee