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Solar energy is one of the most dependable renewable energy technologies, as it is feasible almost everywhere globally. However, improving the efficiency of a solar PV system remains a significant challenge. To enhance the robustness of the…

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Timely and accurate detection of defects and contaminants in solar panels is critical for maintaining the efficiency and reliability of photovoltaic (PV) systems. While recent studies have applied deep learning to PV inspection, fair…

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Effective integration planning for small, distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) arrays into electric power grids requires access to high quality data: the location and power capacity of individual solar PV arrays. Unfortunately, national…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Wei Hu , Kyle Bradbury , Jordan M. Malof , Boning Li , Bohao Huang , Artem Streltsov , K. Sydny Fujita , Ben Hoen

Driven by advancements in photovoltaic (PV) technology, solar energy has emerged as a promising renewable energy source, due to its ease of integration onto building rooftops, facades, and windows. For the emerging cities, the lack of…

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Deep learning techniques have achieved remarkable success in the semantic segmentation of remote sensing images and in land-use change detection. Nevertheless, their real-time deployment on edge platforms remains constrained by decoder…

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Remote sensing imagery from systems such as Sentinel provides full coverage of the Earth's surface at around 10-meter resolution. The remote sensing community has transitioned to extensive use of deep learning models due to their high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Mingshi Li , Dusan Grujicic , Ben Somers , Stien Heremans , Steven De Saeger , Matthew B. Blaschko

Semantic segmentation of remotely sensed urban scene images is required in a wide range of practical applications, such as land cover mapping, urban change detection, environmental protection, and economic assessment.Driven by rapid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Libo Wang , Rui Li , Ce Zhang , Shenghui Fang , Chenxi Duan , Xiaoliang Meng , Peter M. Atkinson

Organic Solar Cells (OSCs) are a promising technology for sustainable energy production. However, the identification of molecules with desired OSC properties typically involves laborious experimental research. To accelerate progress in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Zhihao Ding , Ting Zhang , Yiran Li , Jieming Shi , Chen Jason Zhang

A solar panel harvests the most energy when pointing in the direction that maximizes the total illumination (irradiance) falling on it. Given an arbitrary panel orientation and an arbitrary environmental illumination, we address the problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Jeremy Klotz , Shree K. Nayar

Change detection (CD) in remote sensing aims to identify semantic differences between satellite images captured at different times. While deep learning has significantly advanced this field, existing approaches based on convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Durgesh Ameta , Ujjwal Mishra , Praful Hambarde , Amit Shukla

Solar photovoltaic (PV) technology has merged as an efficient and versatile method for converting the Sun's vast energy into electricity. Innovation in developing new materials and solar cell architectures is required to ensure lightweight,…

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Solar energy is one of the most abundant and tapped sources of renewable energies with enormous future potential. Solar panel output can vary widely with factors like intensity, temperature, dirt, debris and so on affecting it. We have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Abishek Karthik , Sreya Mynampati , Pandiyaraju V

Mesh denoising, aimed at removing noise from input meshes while preserving their feature structures, is a practical yet challenging task. Despite the remarkable progress in learning-based mesh denoising methodologies in recent years, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Wenbo Zhao , Xianming Liu , Deming Zhai , Junjun Jiang , Xiangyang Ji

Snow removal causes challenges due to its characteristic of complex degradations. To this end, targeted treatment of multi-scale snow degradations is critical for the network to learn effective snow removal. In order to handle the diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Sixiang Chen , Tian Ye , Yun Liu , Taodong Liao , Jingxia Jiang , Erkang Chen , Peng Chen

Remarkable penetration of renewable energy in electric networks, despite its valuable opportunities, such as power loss reduction and loadability improvements, has raised concerns for system operators. Such huge penetration can lead to a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-06-12 Hamidreza Sadeghian , Mir Hadi Athari , Zhifang Wang

Panoramic distortion poses a significant challenge in 360 depth estimation, particularly pronounced at the north and south poles. Existing methods either adopt a bi-projection fusion strategy to remove distortions or model long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Junsong Zhang , Zisong Chen , Chunyu Lin , Lang Nie , Zhijie Shen , Kang Liao , Junda Huang , Yao Zhao

The increasing severity of climate change necessitates an urgent transition to renewable energy sources, making the large-scale adoption of wind energy crucial for mitigating environmental impact. However, the inherent uncertainty of wind…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Chongyang Wan , Shunbo Lei , Yuan Luo

The growing interest in the use of clean energy has led to the construction of increasingly large photovoltaic systems. Consequently, monitoring the proper functioning of these systems has become a highly relevant issue.In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 L. E. Montañez , L. M. Valentín-Coronado , D. Moctezuma , G. Flores

Accurate solar forecasting underpins effective renewable energy management. We present SolarCAST, a causally informed model predicting future global horizontal irradiance (GHI) at a target site using only historical GHI from site X and…

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Transformers have demonstrated remarkable performance in natural language processing and computer vision. However, existing vision Transformers struggle to learn from limited medical data and are unable to generalize on diverse medical…

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