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Small satellite constellations provide daily global coverage of the earth's landmass, but image enrichment relies on automating key tasks like change detection or feature searches. For example, to extract text annotations from raw pixels…

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Wildfire monitoring and prediction are essential for understanding wildfire behaviour. With extensive Earth observation data, these tasks can be integrated and enhanced through multi-task deep learning models. We present a comprehensive…

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Mars exploration requires precise and reliable terrain models to ensure safe rover navigation across its unpredictable and often hazardous landscapes. Stereoscopic vision serves a critical role in the rover's perception, allowing scene…

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This paper proposes the SPARK dataset as a new unique space object multi-modal image dataset. Image-based object recognition is an important component of Space Situational Awareness, especially for applications such as on-orbit servicing,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Mohamed Adel Musallam , Kassem Al Ismaeil , Oyebade Oyedotun , Marcos Damian Perez , Michel Poucet , Djamila Aouada

The search for ephemeral liquid water on Mars is an ongoing activity. After the recession of the seasonal polar ice cap on Mars, small water ice patches may be left behind in shady places due to the low thermal conductivity of the Martian…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-12 Mira Gergácz , Ákos Kereszturi

Studying the solar system and especially the Sun relies on the data gathered daily from space missions. These missions are data-intensive and compressing this data to make them efficiently transferable to the ground station is a twofold…

Spacecraft deployed in outer space are routinely subjected to various forms of damage due to exposure to hazardous environments. In addition, there are significant risks to the subsequent process of in-space repairs through human…

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Marine environments present significant challenges for perception and autonomy due to dynamic surfaces, limited visibility, and complex interactions between aerial, surface, and submerged sensing modalities. This paper introduces the Aerial…

In this work we propose a satellite specific Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) model capable to obtain a three-dimensional semantic representation (neural semantic field) of the scene. The model derives the output from a set of multi-date…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Valentin Wagner , Sebastian Bullinger , Christoph Bodensteiner , Michael Arens

Supervised deep neural networks are the-state-of-the-art for many tasks in the remote sensing domain, against the fact that such techniques require the dataset consisting of pairs of input and label, which are rare and expensive to collect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Sarun Gulyanon , Wasit Limprasert , Pokpong Songmuang , Rachada Kongkachandra

Autonomous vision-based spaceborne navigation is an enabling technology for future on-orbit servicing and space logistics missions. While computer vision in general has benefited from Machine Learning (ML), training and validating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Tae Ha Park , Marcus Märtens , Gurvan Lecuyer , Dario Izzo , Simone D'Amico

Rapid progress in embedded computing hardware increasingly enables on-board image processing on small robots. This development opens the path to replacing costly sensors with sophisticated computer vision techniques. A case in point is the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Chaoyue Niu , Danesh Tarapore , Klaus-Peter Zauner

Developing algorithms for extra-terrestrial robotic exploration has always been challenging. Along with the complexity associated with these environments, one of the main issues remains the evaluation of said algorithms. With the regained…

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data and Interferometric SAR (InSAR) products in particular, are one of the largest sources of Earth Observation data. InSAR provides unique information on diverse geophysical processes and geology, and on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Nikolaos Ioannis Bountos , Ioannis Papoutsis , Dimitrios Michail , Andreas Karavias , Panagiotis Elias , Isaak Parcharidis

Recent advances in deep-learning based methods for image matching have demonstrated their superiority over traditional algorithms, enabling correspondence estimation in challenging scenes with significant differences in viewing angles,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Rahul Deshmukh , Avinash Kak

Nowadays, there is growing interest in applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) on board Earth Observation (EO) satellites for time-critical applications, such as natural disaster response. However, the unavailability of raw satellite data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Gabriele Meoni , Roberto Del Prete , Federico Serva , Alix De Beussche , Olivier Colin , Nicolas Longépé

Semantic 2D maps are commonly used by humans and machines for navigation purposes, whether it's walking or driving. However, these maps have limitations: they lack detail, often contain inaccuracies, and are difficult to create and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Paul-Edouard Sarlin , Eduard Trulls , Marc Pollefeys , Jan Hosang , Simon Lynen

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) has become an essential method for building foundational visual models in remote sensing (RS). However, the limitations in size and diversity of existing RS datasets restrict the ability of MIM methods to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Fengxiang Wang , Hongzhen Wang , Di Wang , Zonghao Guo , Zhenyu Zhong , Long Lan , Wenjing Yang , Jing Zhang

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image captioning enables scene-level semantic understanding and plays a crucial role in applications such as military intelligence and urban planning, but its development is limited by the scarcity of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Jinqi Zhang , Lamei Zhang , Bin Zou

Estimating depth from images nowadays yields outstanding results, both in terms of in-domain accuracy and generalization. However, we identify two main challenges that remain open in this field: dealing with non-Lambertian materials and…

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