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Dense pixel-wise classification maps output by deep neural networks are of extreme importance for scene understanding. However, these maps are often partially inaccurate due to a variety of possible factors. Therefore, we propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Gaston Lenczner , Adrien Chan-Hon-Tong , Nicola Luminari , Bertrand Le Saux , Guy Le Besnerais

Change detection, i.e. identification per pixel of changes for some classes of interest from a set of bi-temporal co-registered images, is a fundamental task in the field of remote sensing. It remains challenging due to unrelated forms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Foivos I. Diakogiannis , François Waldner , Peter Caccetta

The availability of massive earth observing satellite data provide huge opportunities for land use and land cover mapping. However, such mapping effort is challenging due to the existence of various land cover classes, noisy data, and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Rahul Ghosh , Praveen Ravirathinam , Xiaowei Jia , Chenxi Lin , Zhenong Jin , Vipin Kumar

This paper presents BigEarthNet that is a large-scale Sentinel-2 multispectral image dataset with a new class nomenclature to advance deep learning (DL) studies in remote sensing (RS). BigEarthNet is made up of 590,326 image patches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Gencer Sumbul , Jian Kang , Tristan Kreuziger , Filipe Marcelino , Hugo Costa , Pedro Benevides , Mario Caetano , Begüm Demir

Semantic segmentation of remote sensing images plays an important role in a wide range of applications including land resource management, biosphere monitoring and urban planning. Although the accuracy of semantic segmentation in remote…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Rui Li , Shunyi Zheng , Chenxi Duan , Ce Zhang , Jianlin Su , P. M. Atkinson

The increasing accessibility of remotely sensed data and their potential to support large-scale decision-making have driven the development of deep learning models for many Earth Observation tasks. Traditionally, such models rely on large…

Land cover maps are a pivotal element in a wide range of Earth Observation (EO) applications. However, annotating large datasets to develop supervised systems for remote sensing (RS) semantic segmentation is costly and time-consuming.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Valerio Marsocci , Nicolas Gonthier , Anatol Garioud , Simone Scardapane , Clément Mallet

The synergistic combination of deep learning models and Earth observation promises significant advances to support the sustainable development goals (SDGs). New developments and a plethora of applications are already changing the way…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Claudio Persello , Jan Dirk Wegner , Ronny Hänsch , Devis Tuia , Pedram Ghamisi , Mila Koeva , Gustau Camps-Valls

Synthetic datasets, recognized for their cost effectiveness, play a pivotal role in advancing computer vision tasks and techniques. However, when it comes to remote sensing image processing, the creation of synthetic datasets becomes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jian Song , Hongruixuan Chen , Naoto Yokoya

In this paper we present our work on developing an automated system for land cover classification. This system takes a multiband satellite image of an area as input and outputs the land cover map of the area at the same resolution as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Vasilis Pollatos , Loukas Kouvaras , Eleni Charou

This paper discusses the challenges of using big Earth observation data for land classification. The approach taken is to consider pure data-driven methods to be insufficient to represent continuous change. We argue for sound theories when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Gilberto Camara

Humans use UAVs to monitor changes in forest environments since they are lightweight and provide a large variety of surveillance data. However, their information does not present enough details for understanding the scene which is needed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Bianca-Cerasela-Zelia Blaga , Sergiu Nedevschi

Detecting changes on the Earth, such as urban development, deforestation, or natural disaster, is one of the research fields that is attracting a great deal of attention. One promising tool to solve these problems is satellite imagery.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Waku Hatakeyama , Shirou Kawakita , Ryohei Izawa , Masanari Kimura

Semantic segmentation is essential for analyzing highdefinition remote sensing images (HRSIs) because it allows the precise classification of objects and regions at the pixel level. However, remote sensing data present challenges owing to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Sachin Verma , Frank Lindseth , Gabriel Kiss

Monitoring land cover using remote sensing is vital for studying environmental changes and ensuring global food security through crop yield forecasting. Specifically, multitemporal remote sensing imagery provides relevant information about…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Amanda A. Boatswain Jacques , Abdoulaye Baniré Diallo , Etienne Lord

Semantic segmentation plays a fundamental role in a broad variety of computer vision applications, providing key information for the global understanding of an image. Yet, the state-of-the-art models rely on large amount of annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Gabriela Csurka , Riccardo Volpi , Boris Chidlovskii

This paper presents a fully unsupervised deep change detection approach for mobile robots with 3D LiDAR. In unstructured environments, it is infeasible to define a closed set of semantic classes. Instead, semantic segmentation is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Alexander Krawciw , Jordy Sehn , Timothy D. Barfoot

To better understand scene images in the field of remote sensing, multi-label annotation of scene images is necessary. Moreover, to enhance the performance of deep learning models for dealing with semantic scene understanding tasks, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Xiaoman Qi , PanPan Zhu , Yuebin Wang , Liqiang Zhang , Junhuan Peng , Mengfan Wu , Jialong Chen , Xudong Zhao , Ning Zang , P. Takis Mathiopoulos

Remote sensing change detection is essential for monitoring the everchanging landscapes of the Earth. The U-Net architecture has gained popularity for its capability to capture spatial information and perform pixel-wise classification.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yaxita Amin , Naimisha S Trivedi , Rashmi Bhattad

Land cover mapping is essential to monitoring the environment and understanding the effects of human activities on it. The automatic approaches to land cover mapping (i.e., image segmentation) mostly used traditional machine learning that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-24 Sanja Šćepanović , Oleg Antropov , Pekka Laurila , Yrjö Rauste , Vladimir Ignatenko , Jaan Praks