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Cloud occlusion significantly hinders remote sensing applications by obstructing surface information and complicating analysis. To address this, we propose DC4CR (Diffusion Control for Cloud Removal), a novel multimodal diffusion-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Zhenyu Yu , Mohd Yamani Idna Idris , Pei Wang

Deep learning has achieved some success in addressing the challenge of cloud removal in optical satellite images, by fusing with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Recently, diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Yuyang Hu , Suhas Lohit , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Tim K. Marks

Deep learning technologies have demonstrated their effectiveness in removing cloud cover from optical remote-sensing images. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) exert dominance in the cloud removal tasks. However, constrained by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Meilin Wang , Yexing Song , Pengxu Wei , Xiaoyu Xian , Yukai Shi , Liang Lin

The presence of cloud layers severely compromises the quality and effectiveness of optical remote sensing (RS) images. However, existing deep-learning (DL)-based Cloud Removal (CR) techniques encounter difficulties in accurately…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Jialu Sui , Yiyang Ma , Wenhan Yang , Xiaokang Zhang , Man-On Pun , Jiaying Liu

Cloud removal (CR) remains a challenging task in remote sensing image processing. Although diffusion models (DM) exhibit strong generative capabilities, their direct applications to CR are suboptimal, as they generate cloudless images from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yi Liu , Wengen Li , Jihong Guan , Shuigeng Zhou , Yichao Zhang

Recent advancements in diffusion-based generative priors have enabled visually plausible image compression at extremely low bit rates. However, existing approaches suffer from slow sampling processes and suboptimal bit allocation due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Yichong Xia , Yimin Zhou , Jinpeng Wang , Bin Chen

Cloud contamination severely degrades the usability of remote sensing imagery and poses a fundamental challenge for downstream Earth observation tasks. Recently, diffusion-based models have emerged as a dominant paradigm for remote sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yifan Zhang , Qian Chen , Yi Liu , Wengen Li , Jihong Guan

Clouds and haze often occlude optical satellite images, hindering continuous, dense monitoring of the Earth's surface. Although modern deep learning methods can implicitly learn to ignore such occlusions, explicit cloud removal as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Patrick Ebel , Vivien Sainte Fare Garnot , Michael Schmitt , Jan Dirk Wegner , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Cloud removal is a relevant topic in Remote Sensing as it fosters the usability of high-resolution optical images for Earth monitoring and study. Related techniques have been analyzed for years with a progressively clearer view of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Alessandro Sebastianelli , Artur Nowakowski , Erika Puglisi , Maria Pia Del Rosso , Jamila Mifdal , Fiora Pirri , Pierre Philippe Mathieu , Silvia Liberata Ullo

Conditional image synthesis based on user-specified requirements is a key component in creating complex visual content. In recent years, diffusion-based generative modeling has become a highly effective way for conditional image synthesis,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Zheyuan Zhan , Defang Chen , Jian-Ping Mei , Zhenghe Zhao , Jiawei Chen , Chun Chen , Siwei Lyu , Can Wang

Optical remote sensing images play a crucial role in the observation of the Earth's surface. However, obtaining complete optical remote sensing images is challenging due to cloud cover. Reconstructing cloud-free optical images has become a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Yuxi Wang , Wenjuan Zhang , Bing Zhang

In this paper, we propose a method for cloud removal from visible light RGB satellite images by extending the conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs) from RGB images to multispectral images. Satellite images have been widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Kenji Enomoto , Ken Sakurada , Weimin Wang , Hiroshi Fukui , Masashi Matsuoka , Ryosuke Nakamura , Nobuo Kawaguchi

Diffusion-based foundation models have recently garnered much attention in the field of generative modeling due to their ability to generate images of high quality and fidelity. Although not straightforward, their recent application to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Nikos Kostagiolas , Pantelis Georgiades , Yannis Panagakis , Mihalis A. Nicolaou

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) image generation quality but suffer from high latency and memory inefficiency, making them difficult to deploy on resource-constrained devices. One major efficiency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Haoran You , Connelly Barnes , Yuqian Zhou , Yan Kang , Zhenbang Du , Wei Zhou , Lingzhi Zhang , Yotam Nitzan , Xiaoyang Liu , Zhe Lin , Eli Shechtman , Sohrab Amirghodsi , Yingyan Celine Lin

Cloud removal is a significant and challenging problem in remote sensing, and in recent years, there have been notable advancements in this area. However, two major issues remain hindering the development of cloud removal: the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Fang Xu , Yilei Shi , Patrick Ebel , Wen Yang , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Satellite images hold great promise for continuous environmental monitoring and earth observation. Occlusions cast by clouds, however, can severely limit coverage, making ground information extraction more difficult. Existing pipelines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Vishnu Sarukkai , Anirudh Jain , Burak Uzkent , Stefano Ermon

Remote sensing imagery is essential for environmental monitoring, agricultural management, and disaster response. However, data loss due to cloud cover, sensor failures, or incomplete acquisition-especially in high-resolution and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Zhenyu Yu , Mohd Yamani Inda Idris , Pei Wang

Satellite images are often contaminated by clouds. Cloud removal has received much attention due to the wide range of satellite image applications. As the clouds thicken, the process of removing the clouds becomes more challenging. In such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-23 Faramarz Naderi Darbaghshahi , Mohammad Reza Mohammadi , Mohsen Soryani

Image restoration aims to enhance low quality images, producing high quality images that exhibit natural visual characteristics and fine semantic attributes. Recently, the diffusion model has emerged as a powerful technique for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Jiangtong Tan , Feng Zhao

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have recently shown remarkable performance in image generation tasks, which are capable of generating highly realistic images. When adopting DPMs for image restoration tasks, the crucial aspect lies in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Yi Zhang , Xiaoyu Shi , Dasong Li , Xiaogang Wang , Jian Wang , Hongsheng Li
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