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Change detection in remote sensing imagery is a critical technique for Earth observation, primarily focusing on pixel-level segmentation of change regions between bi-temporal images. The essence of pixel-level change detection lies in…

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Change detection based on remote sensing images has been a prominent area of interest in the field of remote sensing. Deep networks have demonstrated significant success in detecting changes in bi-temporal remote sensing images and have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Guiqin Zhao , Lianlei Shan , Weiqiang Wang

This paper presents \dahitra, a novel deep-learning model with hierarchical transformers to classify building damages based on satellite images in the aftermath of natural disasters. Satellite imagery provides real-time and high-coverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Navjot Kaur , Cheng-Chun Lee , Ali Mostafavi , Ali Mahdavi-Amiri

Innovations in computer vision algorithms for satellite image analysis can enable us to explore global challenges such as urbanization and land use change at the planetary level. However, domain shift problems are a common occurrence when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Caleb Robinson , Anthony Ortiz , Hogeun Park , Nancy Lozano Gracia , Jon Kher Kaw , Tina Sederholm , Rahul Dodhia , Juan M. Lavista Ferres

While annotated images for change detection using satellite imagery are scarce and costly to obtain, there is a wealth of unlabeled images being generated every day. In order to leverage these data to learn an image representation more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Marrit Leenstra , Diego Marcos , Francesca Bovolo , Devis Tuia

Satellite image time series (SITS) segmentation is crucial for many applications like environmental monitoring, land cover mapping and agricultural crop type classification. However, training models for SITS segmentation remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Jayanth Shenoy , Xingjian Davis Zhang , Shlok Mehrotra , Bill Tao , Rem Yang , Han Zhao , Deepak Vasisht

Satellite imagery is widely used in many application sectors, including agriculture, navigation, and urban planning. Frequently, satellite imagery involves both large numbers of images as well as high pixel counts, making satellite datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Joshua Abraham , Calden Wloka

Existing Building Damage Detection (BDD) methods always require labour-intensive pixel-level annotations of buildings and their conditions, hence largely limiting their applications. In this paper, we investigate a challenging yet practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Yiyun Zhang , Zijian Wang , Yadan Luo , Xin Yu , Zi Huang

For camera-based satellite visual sensing, Sim2Real data construction requires images that approach real-domain sensor appearance while retaining the annotations inherited from simulation. Real sensor images of satellite targets with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Zongwu Xie , Yonglong Zhang , Yifan Yang , Yang Liu , Baoshi Cao

In the face of pressing environmental issues in the 21st century, monitoring surface changes on Earth is more important than ever. Large-scale remote sensing, such as satellite imagery, is an important tool for this task. However, using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Raymond Yu , Paul Han , Josh Myers-Dean , Piper Wolters , Favyen Bastani

Detection and segmentation of objects in overheard imagery is a challenging task. The variable density, random orientation, small size, and instance-to-instance heterogeneity of objects in overhead imagery calls for approaches distinct from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Nicholas Weir , David Lindenbaum , Alexei Bastidas , Adam Van Etten , Sean McPherson , Jacob Shermeyer , Varun Kumar , Hanlin Tang

The research presents an overhead view of 10 important objects and follows the general formatting requirements of the most popular machine learning task: digit recognition with MNIST. This dataset offers a public benchmark extracted from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 David Noever , Samantha E. Miller Noever

Existing data on building destruction in conflict zones rely on eyewitness reports or manual detection, which makes it generally scarce, incomplete and potentially biased. This lack of reliable data imposes severe limitations for media…

General Economics · Economics 2021-07-07 Hannes Mueller , Andre Groger , Jonathan Hersh , Andrea Matranga , Joan Serrat

Change detection is one of the fundamental applications of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. However, speckle noise presented in SAR images has a much negative effect on change detection. In this research, a novel two-phase…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Xinzheng Zhang , Guo Liu , Ce Zhang , Peter M Atkinson , Xiaoheng Tan , Xin Jian , Xichuan Zhou , Yongming Li

Change detection as an interdisciplinary discipline in the field of computer vision and remote sensing at present has been receiving extensive attention and research. Due to the rapid development of society, the geographic information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Zhenyang Huang , Zhaojin Fu , Song Jintao , Genji Yuan , Jinjiang Li

Building coverage statistics provide crucial insights into the urbanization, infrastructure, and poverty level of a region, facilitating efforts towards alleviating poverty, building sustainable cities, and allocating infrastructure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Enci Liu , Chenlin Meng , Matthew Kolodner , Eun Jee Sung , Sihang Chen , Marshall Burke , David Lobell , Stefano Ermon

Change detection is a key task in Earth observation applications. Recently, deep learning methods have demonstrated strong performance and widespread application. However, change detection faces data scarcity due to the labor-intensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Ziyu Zhou , Keyan Hu , Yutian Fang , Xiaoping Rui

Recent developments in the remote sensing systems and image processing made it possible to propose a new method of the object classification and detection of the specific changes in the series of satellite Earth images (so called targeted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Vladimir Ignatiev , Alexey Trekin , Viktor Lobachev , Georgy Potapov , Evgeny Burnaev

Automatic change detection and disaster damage assessment are currently procedures requiring a huge amount of labor and manual work by satellite imagery analysts. In the occurrences of natural disasters, timely change detection can save…

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