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Geophysical inversion should ideally produce geologically realistic subsurface models that explain the available data. Multiple-point statistics is a geostatistical approach to construct subsurface models that are consistent with…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-01-09 T. Zahner , T. Lochbühler , G. Mariethoz , N. Linde

The rapid advancement of remote sensing foundation models, particularly vision and multimodal models, has significantly enhanced the capabilities of intelligent geospatial data interpretation. These models combine various data modalities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Ziyue Huang , Hongxi Yan , Qiqi Zhan , Shuai Yang , Mingming Zhang , Chenkai Zhang , YiMing Lei , Zeming Liu , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

Modeling geophysical processes as low-dimensional dynamical systems and regressing their vector field from data is a promising approach for learning emulators of such systems. We show that when the kernel of these emulators is also learned…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Boumediene Hamzi , Romit Maulik , Houman Owhadi

Foundation models, i.e., very large deep learning models, have demonstrated impressive performances in various language and vision tasks that are otherwise difficult to reach using smaller-size models. The major success of GPT-type of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Yiqun Xie , Zhihao Wang , Weiye Chen , Zhili Li , Xiaowei Jia , Yanhua Li , Ruichen Wang , Kangyang Chai , Ruohan Li , Sergii Skakun

Depth estimation is a fundamental task in 3D computer vision, crucial for applications such as 3D reconstruction, free-viewpoint rendering, robotics, autonomous driving, and AR/VR technologies. Traditional methods relying on hardware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Zhen Xu , Hongyu Zhou , Sida Peng , Haotong Lin , Haoyu Guo , Jiahao Shao , Peishan Yang , Qinglin Yang , Sheng Miao , Xingyi He , Yifan Wang , Yue Wang , Ruizhen Hu , Yiyi Liao , Xiaowei Zhou , Hujun Bao

The task of cross-view image geo-localization aims to determine the geo-location (GPS coordinates) of a query ground-view image by matching it with the GPS-tagged aerial (satellite) images in a reference dataset. Due to the dramatic changes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Bin Sun , Chen Chen , Yingying Zhu , Jianmin Jiang

We propose a novel convolutional neural network architecture for estimating geospatial functions such as population density, land cover, or land use. In our approach, we combine overhead and ground-level images in an end-to-end trainable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Scott Workman , Menghua Zhai , David J. Crandall , Nathan Jacobs

Modeling environmental ecosystems is essential for effective resource management, sustainable development, and understanding complex ecological processes. However, traditional data-driven methods face challenges in capturing inherently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Runlong Yu , Shengyu Chen , Yiqun Xie , Huaxiu Yao , Jared Willard , Xiaowei Jia

The advent of large language models (LLMs) has heightened interest in their potential for multimodal applications that integrate language and vision. This paper explores the capabilities of GPT-4V in the realms of geography, environmental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Chenjiao Tan , Qian Cao , Yiwei Li , Jielu Zhang , Xiao Yang , Huaqin Zhao , Zihao Wu , Zhengliang Liu , Hao Yang , Nemin Wu , Tao Tang , Xinyue Ye , Lilong Chai , Ninghao Liu , Changying Li , Lan Mu , Tianming Liu , Gengchen Mai

Despite tremendous progress in developing deep-learning-based weather forecasting systems, their design space, including the impact of different design choices, is yet to be well understood. This paper aims to fill this knowledge gap by…

Geospatial foundation models (GFMs) have been proposed as generalizable backbones for disaster response, land-cover mapping, food-security monitoring, and other high-stakes Earth-observation tasks. Yet the published work about these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Isaac Corley , Nils Lehmann , Caleb Robinson , Gabriel Tseng , Anthony Fuller , Hamed Alemohammad , Evan Shelhamer , Jennifer Marcus , Hannah Kerner

Deep learning models are widely used across computer vision and other domains. When working on the model induction, selecting the right architecture for a given dataset often relies on repetitive trial-and-error procedures. This procedure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yen-Chia Chen , Hsing-Kuo Pao , Hanjuan Huang

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies have profoundly transformed the field of remote sensing, revolutionizing data collection, processing, and analysis. Traditionally reliant on manual interpretation and task-specific models, remote…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Siqi Lu , Junlin Guo , James R Zimmer-Dauphinee , Jordan M Nieusma , Xiao Wang , Parker VanValkenburgh , Steven A Wernke , Yuankai Huo

Worldwide image geolocalization aims to predict precise GPS coordinates for images captured anywhere on Earth, which is challenging due to the large visual and geographic diversity. Recent methods mainly follow two paradigms:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Pengyue Jia , Derong Xu , Yingyi Zhang , Xiaopeng Li , Wenlin Zhang , Yi Wen , Yuanshao Zhu , Xiangyu Zhao

Building general-purpose robots that operate seamlessly in any environment, with any object, and utilizing various skills to complete diverse tasks has been a long-standing goal in Artificial Intelligence. However, as a community, we have…

The availability of temporal geospatial data in multiple modalities has been extensively leveraged to enhance the performance of machine learning models. While efforts on the design of adequate model architectures are approaching a level of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Hiba Najjar , Marlon Nuske , Andreas Dengel

Reliable subnational population estimates are essential for applications, yet remain difficult where censuses are sparse, outdated or spatially coarse. Existing population-mapping workflows rely on hand-built geospatial covariates, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Wenbin Zhang , Eimear Cleary , Francisco Rowe , Somnath Chaudhuri , Maksym Bondarenko , Shengjie Lai , Andrew J. Tatem

The foundation model has recently garnered significant attention due to its potential to revolutionize the field of visual representation learning in a self-supervised manner. While most foundation models are tailored to effectively process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Danfeng Hong , Bing Zhang , Xuyang Li , Yuxuan Li , Chenyu Li , Jing Yao , Naoto Yokoya , Hao Li , Pedram Ghamisi , Xiuping Jia , Antonio Plaza , Paolo Gamba , Jon Atli Benediktsson , Jocelyn Chanussot

Subsurface geomodeling plays a critical role in reservoir characterization, uncertainty quantification, and subsurface flow prediction. However, integrating heterogeneous sources of geological information, including conceptual geological…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 Jiayuan Huang , Suihong Song , Tapan Mukerji

The proliferation of various data sources in urban and territorial environments has significantly facilitated the development of geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI) across a wide range of geospatial applications. However, geospatial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Yile Chen , Weiming Huang , Kaiqi Zhao , Yue Jiang , Gao Cong