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Earth observation is a fundamental tool for monitoring the evolution of land use in specific areas of interest. Observing and precisely defining change, in this context, requires both time-series data and pixel-wise segmentations. To that…

LiDAR perception is fundamental to robotics, enabling machines to understand their environment in 3D. A crucial task for LiDAR-based scene understanding and navigation is ground segmentation. However, existing methods are either handcrafted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Ted Lentsch , Santiago Montiel-Marín , Holger Caesar , Dariu M. Gavrila

Object detection in remotely sensed satellite pictures is fundamental in many fields such as biophysical, and environmental monitoring. While deep learning algorithms are constantly evolving, they have been mostly implemented and tested on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Safouane El Ghazouali , Arnaud Gucciardi , Francesca Venturini , Nicola Venturi , Michael Rueegsegger , Umberto Michelucci

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

Vision language models (VLMs) that enable natural language interaction with satellite imagery can democratize Earth observation by accelerating expert workflows, making data accessible to non-specialists, and enabling planet-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Sai Ma , Zhuang Li , John A Taylor

Advances in Earth observation (EO) foundation models have unlocked the potential of big satellite data to learn generic representations from space, benefiting a wide range of downstream applications crucial to our planet. However, most…

Shadows cast by terrain and tall structures remain a major obstacle for high-resolution satellite image analysis, degrading classification, detection, and 3D reconstruction performance. Public resources offering geometry-consistent paired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Lorenzo Beltrame , Jules Salzinger , Filip Svoboda , Phillipp Fanta-Jende , Jasmin Lampert , Radu Timofte , Marco Körner

In recent years, landslide disasters have reported frequently due to the extreme weather events of droughts, floods , storms, or the consequence of human activities such as deforestation, excessive exploitation of natural resources.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Lam Pham , Cam Le , Hieu Tang , Khang Truong , Truong Nguyen , Jasmin Lampert , Alexander Schindler , Martin Boyer , Son Phan

Self-supervised learning (SSL) applied to natural images has demonstrated a remarkable ability to learn meaningful, low-dimension representations without labels, resulting in models that are adaptable to many different tasks. Until now,…

In this paper we address the challenge of land cover classification for satellite images via Deep Learning (DL). Land Cover aims to detect the physical characteristics of the territory and estimate the percentage of land occupied by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Eleonora Bernasconi , Francesco Pugliese , Diego Zardetto , Monica Scannapieco

We have used an existing, robotic, multi-lens, all-sky camera system, coupled to a dedicated data reduction pipeline, to automatically determine orbital parameters of satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Each of the fixed cameras has a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-20 T. P. G. Wijnen , R. Stuik , M. Rodenhuis , M. Langbroek , P. Wijnja

Remote Sensing (RS) is a crucial technology for observing, monitoring, and interpreting our planet, with broad applications across geoscience, economics, humanitarian fields, etc. While artificial intelligence (AI), particularly deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Aoran Xiao , Weihao Xuan , Junjue Wang , Jiaxing Huang , Dacheng Tao , Shijian Lu , Naoto Yokoya

Carefully curated and annotated datasets are the foundation of machine learning, with particularly data-hungry deep neural networks forming the core of what is often called Artificial Intelligence (AI). Due to the massive success of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Michael Schmitt , Seyed Ali Ahmadi , Yonghao Xu , Gulsen Taskin , Ujjwal Verma , Francescopaolo Sica , Ronny Hansch

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

Landslides are one of the most destructive natural disasters in the world, posing a serious threat to human life and safety. The development of foundation models has provided a new research paradigm for large-scale landslide detection. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Changhong Hou , Junchuan Yu , Daqing Ge , Liu Yang , Laidian Xi , Yunxuan Pang , Yi Wen

The amount of data generated by Earth observation satellites can be enormous, which poses a great challenge to the satellite-to-ground connections with limited rate. This paper considers problem of efficient downlink communication of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Van-Phuc Bui , Thinh Q. Dinh , Israel Leyva-Mayorga , Shashi Raj Pandey , Eva Lagunas , Petar Popovski

Advancements in technology and reduction in it's cost have led to a substantial growth in the quality & quantity of imagery captured by Earth Observation (EO) satellites. This has presented a challenge to the efficacy of the traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Aidan Duggan , Bruno Andrade , Haithem Afli

An in-depth comprehension of global land cover is essential in Earth observation, forming the foundation for a multitude of applications. Although remote sensing technology has advanced rapidly, leading to a proliferation of satellite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Zhenghang Yuan , Zhitong Xiong , Lichao Mou , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Landsat-8 (NASA) and Sentinel-2 (ESA) are two prominent multi-spectral imaging satellite projects that provide publicly available data. The multi-spectral imaging sensors of the satellites capture images of the earth's surface in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Venkatesh Thirugnana Sambandham , Konstantin Kirchheim , Sayan Mukhopadhaya , Frank Ortmeier

Recent advancements in foundation models have significantly impacted various fields, including natural language processing, computer vision, and multi-modal tasks. One area that stands to benefit greatly is Earth observation, where these…

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