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Sky/cloud images obtained from ground-based sky-cameras are usually captured using a fish-eye lens with a wide field of view. However, the sky exhibits a large dynamic range in terms of luminance, more than a conventional camera can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Soumyabrata Dev , Florian M. Savoy , Yee Hui Lee , Stefan Winkler

The challenge of the cloud removal task can be alleviated with the aid of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images that can penetrate cloud cover. However, the large domain gap between optical and SAR images as well as the severe speckle noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Fang Xu , Yilei Shi , Patrick Ebel , Lei Yu , Gui-Song Xia , Wen Yang , Xiao Xiang Zhu

An adequate fusion of the most significant salient information from multiple input channels is essential for many aerial imaging tasks. While multispectral recordings reveal features in various spectral ranges, synthetic aperture sensing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Mohamed Youssef , Oliver Bimber

Applications of digital agricultural services often require either farmers or their advisers to provide digital records of their field boundaries. Automatic extraction of field boundaries from satellite imagery would reduce the reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-04 François Waldner , Foivos I. Diakogiannis

Sky/cloud images captured by ground-based cameras (a.k.a. whole sky imagers) are increasingly used nowadays because of their applications in a number of fields, including climate modeling, weather prediction, renewable energy generation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Soumyabrata Dev , Yee Hui Lee , Stefan Winkler

In this article, the analysis of existing models of satellite image recognition was carried out, the problems in the field of satellite image recognition as a source of information were considered and analyzed, deep learning methods were…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Alexey Averkin , Sergey Yarushev

Robust scene representation is essential for autonomous systems to safely operate in challenging low-visibility environments. Radar has a clear advantage over cameras and lidars in these conditions due to its resilience to environmental…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Judith Treffler , Vladimír Kubelka , Henrik Andreasson , Martin Magnusson

One of the most relevant problems in the extraction of scientifically useful information from wide field astronomical images (both photographic plates and CCD frames) is the recognition of the objects against a noisy background and their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-17 S. Andreon , G. Gargiulo , G. Longo , R. Tagliaferri , N. Capuano

In this manuscript we demonstrate a method to reconstruct the wavefront of focused beams from a measured diffraction pattern behind a diffracting mask in real-time. The phase problem is solved by means of a neural network, which is trained…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 Jonathon White , Sici Wang , Wilhelm Eschen , Jan Rothhardt

Astronomical images often have regions with missing or unwanted information, such as bad pixels, bad columns, cosmic rays, masked objects, or residuals from imperfect model subtractions. In certain situations it can be essential, or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-06 Pieter van Dokkum , Imad Pasha

The improvements in spectral and spatial resolution of the satellite images have facilitated the automatic extraction and identification of the features from satellite images and aerial photographs. An automatic object extraction method is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-26 S. K. Katiyar , P. V. Arun

Most current neural networks for reconstructing surfaces from point clouds ignore sensor poses and only operate on raw point locations. Sensor visibility, however, holds meaningful information regarding space occupancy and surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Raphael Sulzer , Loic Landrieu , Alexandre Boulch , Renaud Marlet , Bruno Vallet

Advancements in imaging technology have enabled hardware to support 10 to 16 bits per channel, facilitating precise manipulation in applications like image editing and video processing. While deep neural networks promise to recover high…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-13 Xuanshuo Fu , Danna Xue , Javier Vazquez-Corral

Cloud detection from remotely observed data is a critical pre-processing step for various remote sensing applications. In particular, this problem becomes even harder for RGB color images, since there is no distinct spectral pattern for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Savas Ozkan , Mehmet Efendioglu , Caner Demirpolat

Modern Earth observation satellites capture multi-exposure bursts of push-frame images that can be super-resolved via computational means. In this work, we propose a super-resolution method for such multi-exposure sequences, a problem that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Ngoc Long Nguyen , Jérémy Anger , Axel Davy , Pablo Arias , Gabriele Facciolo

In this paper, we introduce a novel deep neural network suitable for multi-scale analysis and propose efficient model-agnostic methods that help the network extract information from high-frequency domains to reconstruct clearer images. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Hyungmin Roh , Myungjoo Kang

Earth observing satellites carrying multi-spectral sensors are widely used to monitor the physical and biological states of the atmosphere, land, and oceans. These satellites have different vantage points above the earth and different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Thomas Vandal , Daniel McDuff , Weile Wang , Andrew Michaelis , Ramakrishna Nemani

Multi-spectral satellite imaging sensors acquire various spectral band images such as red (R), green (G), blue (B), near-infrared (N), etc. Thanks to the unique spectroscopic property of each spectral band with respective to the objects on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-25 Joonyoung Song , Jae-Heon Jeong , Dae-Soon Park , Hyun-Ho Kim , Doo-Chun Seo , Jong Chul Ye

Radio-Frequency (RF) imaging concerns the digital recreation of the surfaces of scene objects based on the scattered field at distributed receivers. To solve this difficult inverse scattering problems, data-driven methods are often employed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Kyriakos Stylianopoulos , Panagiotis Gavriilidis , Gabriele Gradoni , George C. Alexandropoulos

Contemporary registration devices for 3D visual information, such as LIDARs and various depth cameras, capture data as 3D point clouds. In turn, such clouds are challenging to be processed due to their size and complexity. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Dominik Zimny , Joanna Waczyńska , Tomasz Trzciński , Przemysław Spurek