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The impact of soiling on solar panels is an important and well-studied problem in renewable energy sector. In this paper, we present the first convolutional neural network (CNN) based approach for solar panel soiling and defect analysis.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Sachin Mehta , Amar P. Azad , Saneem A. Chemmengath , Vikas Raykar , Shivkumar Kalyanaraman

Accurate detection of defects such as hotspots and snail trails in photovoltaic modules is essential for maintaining energy efficiency and system reliablility. This work presents a supervised deep learning framework for segmenting thermal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Deepak Joshi , Mayukha Pal

Maintaining the integrity of solar power plants is a vital component in dealing with the current climate crisis. This process begins with analysts creating a detailed map of a plant with the coordinates of every solar panel, making it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Conor Wallace , Isaac Corley , Jonathan Lwowski

The quantity of small scale solar photovoltaic (PV) arrays in the United States has grown rapidly in recent years. As a result, there is substantial interest in high quality information about the quantity, power capacity, and energy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Jordan M. Malof , Kyle Bradbury , Leslie M. Collins , Richard G. Newell

Global and regional climate model projections are useful for gauging future patterns of climate variables, including solar radiation, but data from these models is often too coarse to assess local impacts. Within the context of solar…

Applications · Statistics 2024-05-21 Maggie Bailey , Doug Nychka , Manajit Sengupta , Jaemo Yang , Soutir Bandyopadhyay

We consider the problem of automatically detecting small-scale solar photovoltaic arrays for behind-the-meter energy resource assessment in high resolution aerial imagery. Such algorithms offer a faster and more cost-effective solution to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-15 Joseph Camilo , Rui Wang , Leslie M. Collins , Kyle Bradbury , Jordan M. Malof

Deep learning models have gained increasing prominence in recent years in the field of solar pho-tovoltaic (PV) forecasting. One drawback of these models is that they require a lot of high-quality data to perform well. This is often…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Joris Depoortere , Johan Driesen , Johan Suykens , Hussain Syed Kazmi

Using solar power in the process industry can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make the production process more sustainable. However, the intermittent nature of solar power renders its usage challenging. Building a model to predict…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-17 Yu Yang , Jia Mao , Richard Nguyen , Annas Tohmeh , Hen-Geul Yeh

Both of Wavelet and Fast Fourier Transform are strong signal processing tools in the field of Data Analysis. In this paper fast fourier transform (FFT) and Wavelet Transform are employed to observe some important features of Solar image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-11 Sabyasachi Mukhopadhyay , Debadatta Dash , Swapnil Barmase , Prasanta K Panigrahi

Photovoltaic (PV) power forecasting plays a crucial role in optimizing the operation and planning of PV systems, thereby enabling efficient energy management and grid integration. However, un certainties caused by fluctuating weather…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Jiaxin Gao , Qinglong Cao , Yuntian Chen , Dongxiao Zhang

Photovoltaic (PV) power forecasting plays a critical role in power system dispatch and market participation. Because PV generation is highly sensitive to weather conditions and cloud motion, accurate forecasting requires effective modeling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Hang Fan , Haoran Pei , Runze Liang , Weican Liu , Long Cheng , Wei Wei

This study investigates object presence detection and localization in remote sensing imagery, focusing on solar panel recognition. We explore different levels of supervision, evaluating three models: a fully supervised object detector, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Maarten Burger , Rob Wijnhoven , Shaodi You

Utility-scale solar arrays require specialized inspection methods for detecting faulty panels. Photovoltaic (PV) panel faults caused by weather, ground leakage, circuit issues, temperature, environment, age, and other damage can take many…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 David F. Ramirez , Deep Pujara , Cihan Tepedelenlioglu , Devarajan Srinivasan , Andreas Spanias

The task of radio map estimation aims to generate a dense representation of electromagnetic spectrum quantities, such as the received signal strength at each grid point within a geographic region, based on measurements from a subset of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Zheng Fang , Kangjun Liu , Ke Chen , Qingyu Liu , Jianguo Zhang , Lingyang Song , Yaowei Wang

The increasing global deployment of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems needs robust, scalable, and automated inspection technologies capable of detecting a wide range of panel flaws under a variety of operating situations. The lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Misbah Ijaz , Saif Ur Rehman Khan , Abd Ur Rehman , Arooj Zaib , Sebastian Vollmer , Andreas Dengel , Muhammad Nabeel Asim

The use of clean energy is a global trend, with solar photovoltaic plants serving as a cornerstone of this energy transition. To support this rapid growth, optimize energy utilization, and enable a wide range of applications and services,…

This paper introduces WeatherFormer, a transformer encoder-based model designed to learn robust weather features from minimal observations. It addresses the challenge of modeling complex weather dynamics from small datasets, a bottleneck…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Adib Hasan , Mardavij Roozbehani , Munther Dahleh

The total amount of solar irradiance falling on the earth's surface is an important area of study amongst the photo-voltaic (PV) engineers and remote sensing analysts. The received solar irradiance impacts the total amount of generated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-23 Shilpa Manandhar , Soumyabrata Dev , Yee Hui Lee , Yu Song Meng

Photovoltaics (PV) are widely used to harvest solar energy, an important form of renewable energy. Photovoltaic arrays consist of multiple solar panels constructed from solar cells. Solar cells in the field are vulnerable to various…

Applications · Statistics 2024-08-13 Xinyi Song , Kennedy Odongo , Francis G. Pascual , Yili Hong

Photovoltaic (PV) energy generation plays a crucial role in the energy transition. Small-scale PV installations are deployed at an unprecedented pace, and their integration into the grid can be challenging since public authorities often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Gabriel Kasmi , Yves-Marie Saint-Drenan , David Trebosc , Raphaël Jolivet , Jonathan Leloux , Babacar Sarr , Laurent Dubus