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Consumer electronic devices such as mobile handsets, goods tagged with RFID labels, location and position sensors are continuously generating a vast amount of location enriched data called geospatial data. Conventionally such geospatial…
Deep learning has largely reshaped remote sensing (RS) research for aerial image understanding and made a great success. Nevertheless, most of the existing deep models are initialized with the ImageNet pretrained weights. Since natural…
High Definition (HD) digital photos taken with drones are widely used in the study of Geoscience. However, blurry images are often taken in collected data, and it takes a lot of time and effort to distinguish clear images from blurry ones.…
Hyperspectral images show similar statistical properties to natural grayscale or color photographic images. However, the classification of hyperspectral images is more challenging because of the very high dimensionality of the pixels and…
Image-based localization in GNSS-denied environments is critical for UAV autonomy. Existing state-of-the-art approaches rely on matching UAV images to geo-referenced satellite images; however, they typically require large-scale, paired…
We introduce a method to train vision-language models for remote-sensing images without using any textual annotations. Our key insight is to use co-located internet imagery taken on the ground as an intermediary for connecting…
Deep learning usually requires big data, with respect to both volume and variety. However, most remote sensing applications only have limited training data, of which a small subset is labeled. Herein, we review three state-of-the-art…
Remote sensing images are highly valued for their ability to address complex real-world issues such as risk management, security, and meteorology. However, manually captioning these images is challenging and requires specialized knowledge…
With the advancement of remote-sensed imaging large volumes of very high resolution land cover images can now be obtained. Automation of object recognition in these 2D images, however, is still a key issue. High intra-class variance and low…
With the rapid development of remote sensing image archives, asking questions about images has become an effective way of gathering specific information or performing image retrieval. However, automatically generated image-based questions…
Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown a promising ability in image geolocation, but they still lack structured geographic reasoning and the capacity for autonomous self-evolution. Existing methods predominantly rely on implicit…
While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have significantly advanced remote sensing interpretation, enabling them to perform complex, step-by-step reasoning remains highly challenging. Recent efforts to introduce Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning…
Today, even the most compute-and-power constrained robots can measure complex, high data-rate video and LIDAR sensory streams. Often, such robots, ranging from low-power drones to space and subterranean rovers, need to transmit high-bitrate…
We propose a strategy for land use classification which exploits Multiple Kernel Learning (MKL) to automatically determine a suitable combination of a set of features without requiring any heuristic knowledge about the classification task.…
Aerial remote sensing using multispectral and RGB imagers has provided a critical impetus to precision agriculture. Analysis of the hyperspectral images with limited or no labels is challenging. This paper focuses on self-supervised…
GNSS is unreliable, inaccurate, and insufficient in many real-time autonomous field applications. In this work, we present a GNSS-free global localization solution that contains a method of registering imaging radar on the ground with…
Deep neural networks need huge amount of training data, while in real world there is a scarcity of data available for training purposes. To resolve these issues, self-supervised learning (SSL) methods are used. SSL using geometric…
Deeper neural networks are more difficult to train. We present a residual learning framework to ease the training of networks that are substantially deeper than those used previously. We explicitly reformulate the layers as learning…
In recent years, deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) has seen a breakthrough progress in natural image recognition because of three points: universal approximation ability via DCNN, large-scale database (such as ImageNet), and…
Recently, deep metric learning techniques received attention, as the learned distance representations are useful to capture the similarity relationship among samples and further improve the performance of various of supervised or…