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Reliable precipitation monitoring is essential for disaster risk reduction, water resources management, and agricultural decision-making. Multi-source satellite observations, particularly the combination of geostationary infrared and…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Yunfan Yang , Haofei Sun , Xiuyu Sun , Wei Han , Xiaoze Xu , Xingtao Song , Jun Li , Zhiqiu Gao , Wei Huang , Hao Li

Two new indicators of rainfall seasonality based on information entropy, the relative entropy (RE) and the dimensionless seasonality index (DSI), together with the mean annual rainfall, are evaluated on a global scale for recently updated…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2014-09-02 Salvatore Pascale , Valerio Lucarini , Xue Feng , Amilcare Porporato , Shabeh ul Hasson

The agricultural irrigation system is closely related to agricultural production. There are some problems in nowadays agricultural irrigation system, such as poor mobility, imprecision and high price. To address these issues, an intelligent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Minghan Chen , Yilong Sun , Xueqing Cai , Boyi Liu , Tenglong Ren

In data-sparse regions, satellite and reanalysis rainfall estimates (SREs) are vital but limited by inherent biases. This study evaluates bias correction (BC) methods, including traditional statistical (LOCI, QM) and machine learning (SVR,…

We present a method for estimating lighting from a single perspective image of an indoor scene. Previous methods for predicting indoor illumination usually focus on either simple, parametric lighting that lack realism, or on richer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Henrique Weber , Mathieu Garon , Jean-François Lalonde

Population growth and increasing droughts are creating unprecedented strain on the continued availability of water resources. Since irrigation is a major consumer of fresh water, wastage of resources in this sector could have strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-12 Hans Krupakar , Akshay Jayakumar , Dhivya G

This paper introduces a method for using LED-based environmental lighting to produce visually imperceptible watermarks for consumer cameras. Our approach optimizes an LED light source's spectral profile to be minimally visible to the human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Hodaka Kawachi , Tomoya Nakamura , Hiroaki Santo , SaiKiran Kumar Tedla , Trevor Dalton Canham , Yasushi Yagi , Michael S. Brown

Improving the representation of precipitation in Earth system models (ESMs) is critical for assessing the impacts of climate change and especially of extreme events like floods and droughts. In existing ESMs, precipitation is not resolved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Michael Aich , Sebastian Bathiany , Philipp Hess , Yu Huang , Niklas Boers

Across various research domains, remotely-sensed weather products are valuable for answering many scientific questions; however, their temporal and spatial resolutions are often too coarse to answer many questions. For instance, in wildlife…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-02 Enis Berk Çoban , Megan Perra , Michael I. Mandel

Exploring and modeling rain generation mechanism is critical for augmenting paired data to ease training of rainy image processing models. Against this task, this study proposes a novel deep learning based rain generator, which fully takes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Zhiqiang Pang , Hong Wang , Qi Xie , Deyu Meng , Zongben Xu

Precision agriculture system is an arising idea that refers to overseeing farms utilizing current information and communication technologies to improve the quantity and quality of yields while advancing the human work required. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Satvik Garg , Pradyumn Pundir , Himanshu Jindal , Hemraj Saini , Somya Garg

Event cameras are a new type of vision sensor that incorporates asynchronous and independent pixels, offering advantages over traditional frame-based cameras such as high dynamic range and minimal motion blur. However, their output is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Burak Ercan , Onur Eker , Aykut Erdem , Erkut Erdem

In the face of accelerating global urbanization and the increasing frequency of extreme weather events, highresolution urban rainfall monitoring is crucial for building resilient smart cities. Commercial Microwave Links (CMLs) are an…

Electric vehicles (EVs) have the potential to reduce grid stress through smart charging strategies while simultaneously meeting user demand. This requires accurate forecasts of key charging parameters, such as energy demand and connection…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Parnian Alikhani , Nico Brinkel , Wouter Schram , Ioannis Lampropoulos , Wilfried van Sark

Recent approaches for video generation with camera control often create anchor videos (i.e., rendered videos that approximate desired camera motions) to guide diffusion models as a structured prior, by rendering from estimated point clouds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zun Wang , Jaemin Cho , Jialu Li , Han Lin , Jaehong Yoon , Yue Zhang , Mohit Bansal

The spatial and temporal distribution of precipitation has a significant impact on human lives by determining freshwater resources and agricultural yield, but also rainfall-driven hazards like flooding or landslides. While the ERA5…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Luca Glawion , Julius Polz , Harald Kunstmann , Benjamin Fersch , Christian Chwala

Rain removal plays an important role in the restoration of degraded images. Recently, data-driven methods have achieved remarkable success. However, these approaches neglect that the appearance of rain is often accompanied by low light…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-19 Yecong Wan , Yuanshuo Cheng , Mingwen Shao

High-resolution rainfall estimates from satellite and reanalysis sources (SRE) could play a major role in improving climate services for agriculture. This is particularly relevant in regions that rely on rain-fed farming but lack a dense…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Danny Parsons , David Stern , Denis Ndanguza , Mouhamadou Bamba Sylla , James Musyoka , John Bagiliko , Graham Clarkson , Peter Dorward

The broad scope of obstacle avoidance has led to many kinds of computer vision-based approaches. Despite its popularity, it is not a solved problem. Traditional computer vision techniques using cameras and depth sensors often focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Celyn Walters , Simon Hadfield

Monitoring moisture level of land in a large-scale plantation is tedious. The main objective of this project is to use a robotic kit in collaboration with the on-field moisture sensor circuits, thereby creating an efficient and economical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Senthil Palanisamy , Akila I. S