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Remote sensing understanding inherently requires multi-resolution observation, since different targets and application tasks demand different levels of spatial detail. While low-resolution (LR) imagery enables efficient global observation,…

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Accurate estimation of building heights is essential for urban planning, infrastructure management, and environmental analysis. In this study, we propose a supervised Multimodal Building Height Regression Network (MBHR-Net) for estimating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Ritu Yadav , Andrea Nascetti , Yifang Ban

Estimating depth from RGB images is a long-standing ill-posed problem, which has been explored for decades by the computer vision, graphics, and machine learning communities. In this article, we provide a comprehensive survey of the recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Hamid Laga

Rapid globalization and the interdependence of humanity that engender tremendous in-flow of human migration towards the urban spaces. With advent of high definition satellite images, high resolution data, computational methods such as deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Qianwei Cheng , AKM Mahbubur Rahman , Anis Sarker , Abu Bakar Siddik Nayem , Ovi Paul , Amin Ahsan Ali , M Ashraful Amin , Ryosuke Shibasaki , Moinul Zaber

Building patterns are important urban structures that reflect the effect of the urban material and social-economic on a region. Previous researches are mostly based on the graph isomorphism method and use rules to recognize building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Wei Zhiwei , Xiao Yi , Tong Ying , Xu Wenjia , Wang Yang

Building properties, such as height, usage, and material, play a crucial role in spatial data infrastructures, supporting various urban applications. Despite their importance, comprehensive building attribute data remain scarce in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xiucheng Liang , Jinheng Xie , Tianhong Zhao , Rudi Stouffs , Filip Biljecki

Fully automatic large-scale land cover mapping belongs to the core challenges addressed by the remote sensing community. Usually, the basis of this task is formed by (supervised) machine learning models. However, in spite of recent growth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Michael Schmitt , Jonathan Prexl , Patrick Ebel , Lukas Liebel , Xiao Xiang Zhu

The task of identifying and segmenting buildings within remote sensing imagery has perennially stood at the forefront of scholarly investigations. This manuscript accentuates the potency of harnessing diversified datasets in tandem with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Lei Li

Satellite imagery analytics have numerous human development and disaster response applications, particularly when time series methods are involved. For example, quantifying population statistics is fundamental to 67 of the 231 United…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Adam Van Etten , Daniel Hogan , Jesus Martinez-Manso , Jacob Shermeyer , Nicholas Weir , Ryan Lewis

Ground-based whole sky cameras have opened up new opportunities for monitoring the earth's atmosphere. These cameras are an important complement to satellite images by providing geoscientists with cheaper, faster, and more localized data.…

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Socio-economic indicators like regional GDP, population, and education levels, are crucial to shaping policy decisions and fostering sustainable development. This research introduces GeoReg a regression model that integrates diverse data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Kyeongjin Ahn , Sungwon Han , Seungeon Lee , Donghyun Ahn , Hyoshin Kim , Jungwon Kim , Jihee Kim , Sangyoon Park , Meeyoung Cha

Environmental disasters such as floods, hurricanes, and wildfires have increasingly threatened communities worldwide, prompting various mitigation strategies. Among these, property buyouts have emerged as a prominent approach to reducing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Hakan T. Otal , Elyse Zavar , Sherri B. Binder , Alex Greer , M. Abdullah Canbaz

Many remote sensing applications employ masking of pixels in satellite imagery for subsequent measurements. For example, estimating water quality variables, such as Suspended Sediment Concentration (SSC) requires isolating pixels depicting…

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Precise load forecasting in buildings could increase the bill savings potential and facilitate optimized strategies for power generation planning. With the rapid evolution of computer science, data-driven techniques, in particular the Deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Menna Nawar , Moustafa Shomer , Samy Faddel , Huangjie Gong

Timely and high-resolution estimates of the home locations of a sufficiently large subset of the population are critical for effective disaster response and public health intervention, but this is still an open problem. Conventional data…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Meysam Ghaffari , Ashok Srinivasan , Xiuwen Liu

The present study uses domain experts to estimate welfare levels and indicators from high-resolution satellite imagery. We use the wealth quintiles from the 2015 Tanzania DHS dataset as ground truth data. We analyse the performance of the…

General Economics · Economics 2022-10-18 Wahab Ibrahim , Ola Hall

We explore the implementation of deep learning techniques for precise building damage assessment in the context of natural hazards, utilizing remote sensing data. The xBD dataset, comprising diverse disaster events from across the globe,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Maximilian Nitsche , S. Karthik Mukkavilli , Niklas Kühl , Thomas Brunschwiler

Building segmentation from aerial images and 3D laser scanning (LiDAR) is a challenging task due to the diversity of backgrounds, building textures, and image quality. While current research using different types of convolutional and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Lei Li , Tianfang Zhang , Stefan Oehmcke , Fabian Gieseke , Christian Igel

Landslides pose severe threats to infrastructure, economies, and human lives, necessitating accurate detection and predictive mapping across diverse geographic regions. With advancements in deep learning and remote sensing, automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Rahul A. Burange , Harsh K. Shinde , Omkar Mutyalwar

A new statistical model designed for regression analysis with a sparse design matrix is proposed. This new model utilizes the positions of the limited non-zero elements in the design matrix to decompose the regression model into…

Applications · Statistics 2022-01-17 Hsien-Wei Chen