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Floods are increasingly frequent natural disasters causing extensive human and economic damage, highlighting the critical need for rapid and accurate flood inundation mapping. While remote sensing technologies have advanced flood monitoring…

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Due to its cloud-penetrating capability and independence from solar illumination, satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is the preferred data source for large-scale flood mapping, providing global coverage and including various land…

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Spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can provide accurate images of the ocean surface roughness day-or-night in nearly all weather conditions, being an unique asset for many geophysical applications. Considering the huge amount of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Nicolae-Cătălin Ristea , Andrei Anghel , Mihai Datcu , Bertrand Chapron

Change detection (CD) aims to identify surface changes from multi-temporal remote sensing imagery. In real-world scenarios, Pixel-level change labels are expensive to acquire, and existing models struggle to adapt to scenarios with diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Kaixuan Jiang , Chen Wu , Zhenghui Zhao , Chengxi Han , Haonan Guo , Hongruixuan Chen

The detection of flooded areas using high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery is a critical task with applications in crisis and disaster management, as well as environmental resource planning. However, the complex nature of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Tamer Saleh , Xingxing Weng , Shimaa Holail , Chen Hao , Gui-Song Xia

The flooding extent area in a river valley is related to river gauge observations. The higher the water elevation, the larger the flooding area. Due to synthetic aperture radar\textquoteright s (SAR) capabilities to penetrate through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Monika Gierszewska , Tomasz Berezowski

In an era where climate change aggravates environmental uncertainties, the identification and detection of event precursors are becoming crucial to mitigate the impacts of disastrous natural hazards. While classical sensors such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Arthur Dérédel , Carlos Crispim-Junior , Pierre Lemaire , Johan Berthet , Laure Tougne Rodet

As an essential procedure in earth observation system, change detection (CD) aims to reveal the spatial-temporal evolution of the observation regions. A key prerequisite for existing change detection algorithms is aligned geo-references…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yitao Zhao , Sen Lei , Nanqing Liu , Heng-Chao Li , Turgay Celik , Qing Zhu

Automated vehicles require an accurate perception of their surroundings for safe and efficient driving. Lidar-based object detection is a widely used method for environment perception, but its performance is significantly affected by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Raphael van Kempen , Tim Rehbronn , Abin Jose , Johannes Stegmaier , Bastian Lampe , Timo Woopen , Lutz Eckstein

The accurate characterization of the severity of the wildfire event strongly contributes to the characterization of the fuel conditions in fire-prone areas, and provides valuable information for disaster response. The aim of this study is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Beichen Zhang , Huiqi Wang , Amani Alabri , Karol Bot , Cole McCall , Dale Hamilton , Vít Růžička

We propose an unsupervised anomaly detection approach based on a physics-informed diffusion model for multivariate time series data. Over the past years, diffusion model has demonstrated its effectiveness in forecasting, imputation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Juhi Soni , Markus Lange-Hegermann , Stefan Windmann

When observing a phenomenon, severe cases or anomalies are often characterised by deviation from the expected data distribution. However, non-deviating data samples may also implicitly lead to severe outcomes. In the case of unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Athanasios Davvetas , Iraklis A. Klampanos

Detection of periodic patterns of interest within noisy time series data plays a critical role in various tasks, spanning from health monitoring to behavior analysis. Existing learning techniques often rely on labels or clean versions of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Berken Utku Demirel , Christian Holz

Several techniques for multivariate time series anomaly detection have been proposed recently, but a systematic comparison on a common set of datasets and metrics is lacking. This paper presents a systematic and comprehensive evaluation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Astha Garg , Wenyu Zhang , Jules Samaran , Savitha Ramasamy , Chuan-Sheng Foo

Change detection (CD) is a fundamental and important task for monitoring the land surface dynamics in the earth observation field. Existing deep learning-based CD methods typically extract bi-temporal image features using a weight-sharing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Haonan Guo , Xin Su , Chen Wu , Bo Du , Liangpei Zhang

We present a novel approach for unsupervised road segmentation in adverse weather conditions such as rain or fog. This includes a new algorithm for source-free domain adaptation (SFDA) using self-supervised learning. Moreover, our approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Divya Kothandaraman , Rohan Chandra , Dinesh Manocha

Change detection (CD) methods have been applied to optical data for decades, while the use of hyperspectral data with a fine spectral resolution has been rarely explored. CD is applied in several sectors, such as environmental monitoring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 J. F. Amieva , A. Austoni , M. A. Brovelli , L. Ansalone , P. Naylor , F. Serva , B. Le Saux

Driven by rapid climate change, the frequency and intensity of flood events are increasing. Electro-Optical (EO) satellite imagery is commonly utilized for rapid response. However, its utilities in flood situations are hampered by issues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Minseok Seo , Youngtack Oh , Doyi Kim , Dongmin Kang , Yeji Choi

Change point detection (CPD) aims to locate abrupt property changes in time series data. Recent CPD methods demonstrated the potential of using deep learning techniques, but often lack the ability to identify more subtle changes in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Tim De Ryck , Maarten De Vos , Alexander Bertrand

Understanding the extent of urban flooding is crucial for assessing building damage, casualties and economic losses. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) technology offers significant advantages for mapping flooded urban areas due to its ability…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Jie Zhao , Ming Li , Yu Li , Patrick Matgen , Marco Chini