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Training a modern deep neural network on massive labeled samples is the main paradigm in solving the scene classification problem for remote sensing, but learning from only a few data points remains a challenge. Existing methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Haifeng Li , Zhenqi Cui , Zhiqing Zhu , Li Chen , Jiawei Zhu , Haozhe Huang , Chao Tao

The analysis of time-sequence satellite images is a powerful tool in remote sensing; it is used to explore the statics and dynamics of the surface of the earth. Usually, the quality of multitemporal images is influenced by metrological…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-01 Hessah Albanwan

Many current deep learning approaches make extensive use of backbone networks pre-trained on large datasets like ImageNet, which are then fine-tuned to perform a certain task. In remote sensing, the lack of comparable large annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Konrad Heidler , Lichao Mou , Di Hu , Pu Jin , Guangyao Li , Chuang Gan , Ji-Rong Wen , Xiao Xiang Zhu

This work proposes a hybrid unsupervised and supervised learning method to pre-train models applied in Earth observation downstream tasks when only a handful of labels denoting very general semantic concepts are available. We combine a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Omar A. Castaño-Idarraga , Raul Ramos-Pollán , Freddie Kalaitzis

Satellite images are snapshots of the Earth surface. We propose to forecast them. We frame Earth surface forecasting as the task of predicting satellite imagery conditioned on future weather. EarthNet2021 is a large dataset suitable for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Christian Requena-Mesa , Vitus Benson , Markus Reichstein , Jakob Runge , Joachim Denzler

Deep learning approaches require enough training samples to perform well, but it is a challenge to collect enough real training data and label them manually. In this letter, we propose the use of realistic synthetic data with a wide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Weixing Liu , Jun Liu , Bin Luo

Compared to supervised deep learning, self-supervision provides remote sensing a tool to reduce the amount of exact, human-crafted geospatial annotations. While image-level information for unsupervised pretraining efficiently works for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Chenying Liu , Conrad M Albrecht , Yi Wang , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Self-supervised learning has emerged as a powerful tool for remote sensing, where large amounts of unlabeled data are available. In this work, we investigate the use of DINO, a contrastive self-supervised method, for pretraining on remote…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Jakub Straka , Ivan Gruber

Automatic supervised classification with complex modelling such as deep neural networks requires the availability of representative training data sets. While there exists a plethora of data sets that can be used for this purpose, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Vasileios Syrris , Ondrej Pesek , Pierre Soille

In defense-related remote sensing applications, such as vehicle detection on satellite imagery, supervised learning requires a huge number of labeled examples to reach operational performances. Such data are challenging to obtain as it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Jules BOURCIER , Thomas Floquet , Gohar Dashyan , Tugdual Ceillier , Karteek Alahari , Jocelyn Chanussot

This paper presents the BigEarthNet that is a new large-scale multi-label Sentinel-2 benchmark archive. The BigEarthNet consists of 590,326 Sentinel-2 image patches, each of which is a section of i) 120x120 pixels for 10m bands; ii) 60x60…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Gencer Sumbul , Marcela Charfuelan , Begüm Demir , Volker Markl

Given the limitations of satellite orbits and imaging conditions, multi-modal remote sensing (RS) data is crucial in enabling long-term earth observation. However, maritime surveillance remains challenging due to the complexity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Chen-Chen Fan , Peiyao Guo , Linping Zhang , Kehan Qi , Haolin Huang , Yong-Qiang Mao , Yuxi Suo , Zhizhuo Jiang , Yu Liu , You He

Image classification is one of the main drivers of the rapid developments in deep learning with convolutional neural networks for computer vision. So is the analogous task of scene classification in remote sensing. However, in contrast to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Michael Schmitt , Yu-Lun Wu

Foundation models have reshaped the landscape of Remote Sensing (RS) by enhancing various image interpretation tasks. Pretraining is an active research topic, encompassing supervised and self-supervised learning methods to initialize model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Di Wang , Jing Zhang , Minqiang Xu , Lin Liu , Dongsheng Wang , Erzhong Gao , Chengxi Han , Haonan Guo , Bo Du , Dacheng Tao , Liangpei Zhang

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

Current remote-sensing interpretation models often focus on a single task such as detection, segmentation, or caption. However, the task-specific designed models are unattainable to achieve the comprehensive multi-level interpretation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Danpei Zhao , Bo Yuan , Ziqiang Chen , Tian Li , Zhuoran Liu , Wentao Li , Yue Gao

Machine learning methods for satellite data have a range of societally relevant applications, but labels used to train models can be difficult or impossible to acquire. Self-supervision is a natural solution in settings with limited labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Gabriel Tseng , Ruben Cartuyvels , Ivan Zvonkov , Mirali Purohit , David Rolnick , Hannah Kerner

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has demonstrated significant potential in pre-training robust models with limited labeled data, making it particularly valuable for remote sensing (RS) tasks. A common assumption is that pre-training on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Saad Lahrichi , Zion Sheng , Shufan Xia , Kyle Bradbury , Jordan Malof

We present TartanGround, a large-scale, multi-modal dataset to advance the perception and autonomy of ground robots operating in diverse environments. This dataset, collected in various photorealistic simulation environments includes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Manthan Patel , Fan Yang , Yuheng Qiu , Cesar Cadena , Sebastian Scherer , Marco Hutter , Wenshan Wang

Existing deep learning methods for remote sensing image fusion often suffer from poor generalization when applied to unseen datasets due to the limited availability of real training data and the domain gap between different satellite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Yongchuan Cui , Peng Liu , Yi Zeng