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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

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

Remote sensing image scene classification remains a challenging task, primarily due to the complex spatial structures and multi-scale characteristics of ground objects. Although CNN-based methods excel at extracting local inductive biases,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Yuanhao Tang , Xuechao Zou , Zhengpei Hu , Junliang Xing , Chengkun Zhang , Jianqiang Huang

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

Image fusion technology is widely used to fuse the complementary information between multi-source remote sensing images. Inspired by the frontier of deep learning, this paper first proposes a heterogeneous-integrated framework based on a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-15 Menghui Jiang , Huanfeng Shen , Jie Li , Liangpei Zhang

Optical satellite image time series are extensively used in many Earth observation applications, including agriculture, climate monitoring, and land surface analysis. However, clouds and swath edges result in irregular sampling along the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Véronique Defonte , Dawa Derksen , Alexandre Constantin , Bastien Nespoulous

Hyperspectral image (HSI) and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data joint classification is a crucial and yet challenging task in the field of remote sensing image interpretation. However, feature modeling in existing methods is deficient to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-26 Han Luo , Feng Gao , Junyu Dong , Lin Qi

Cloud removal plays a crucial role in enhancing remote sensing image analysis, yet accurately reconstructing cloud-obscured regions remains a significant challenge. Recent advancements in generative models have made the generation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Wanli Ma , Oktay Karakus , Paul L. Rosin

In remote sensing images, the presence of thick cloud accompanying cloud shadow is a high probability event, which can affect the quality of subsequent processing and limit the scenarios of application. Hence, removing the thick cloud and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Chenxi Duan , Jun Pan , Rui Li

Earth observation satellites like Sentinel-1 (S1) and Sentinel-2 (S2) provide complementary remote sensing (RS) data, but S2 images are often unavailable due to cloud cover or data gaps. To address this, we propose a diffusion model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Kaan Aydin , Joelle Hanna , Damian Borth

In this paper, we present the optical image simulation from a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data using deep learning based methods. Two models, i.e., optical image simulation directly from the SAR data and from multi-temporal SARoptical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Wei He , Naoto Yokoya

Remote sensing (RS) images are important to monitor and survey earth at varying spatial scales. Continuous observations from various RS sources complement single observations to improve applications. Fusion into single or multiple images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Hessah Albanwan

Optical remote sensing imagery has been widely used in many fields due to its high resolution and stable geometric properties. However, remote sensing imagery is inevitably affected by climate, especially clouds. Removing the cloud in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Heng Pan

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

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

It remains a challenge to simultaneously remove geometric distortion and space-time-varying blur in frames captured through a turbulent atmospheric medium. To solve, or at least reduce these effects, we propose a new scheme to recover a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-01-20 Yuan Xie , Wensheng Zhang , Dacheng Tao , Wenrui Hu , Yanyun Qu , Hanzi Wang

Cloud occlusion severely degrades the semantic integrity of optical remote sensing imagery. While incorporating Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) provides complementary observations, achieving efficient global modeling and reliable cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Chenxing Meng , Wuzhou Quan , Yingjie Cai , Liqun Cao , Liyan Zhang , Mingqiang Wei

While image dehazing has advanced substantially in the past decade, most efforts have focused on short-range scenarios, leaving long-range haze removal under-explored. As distance increases, intensified scattering leads to severe haze and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yi Li , Xiaoxiong Wang , Jiawei Wang , Yi Chang , Kai Cao , Luxin Yan

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 proposes a novel multi-temporal urban mapping approach using multi-modal satellite data from the Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Sentinel-2 MultiSpectral Instrument (MSI) missions. In particular, it focuses on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Sebastian Hafner , Yifang Ban