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Introducing explicit constraints on the structural predictions has been an effective way to improve the performance of semantic segmentation models. Existing methods are mainly based on insufficient hand-crafted rules that only partially…

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Segmentation of Earth observation (EO) satellite data is critical for natural hazard analysis and disaster response. However, processing EO data at ground stations introduces delays due to data transmission bottlenecks and communication…

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Earth observing satellites carrying multi-spectral sensors are widely used to monitor the physical and biological states of the atmosphere, land, and oceans. These satellites have different vantage points above the earth and different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Thomas Vandal , Daniel McDuff , Weile Wang , Andrew Michaelis , Ramakrishna Nemani

The European Space Agency's Sentinel-2 satellite provides global multispectral coverage for remote sensing (RS) applications. However, limited spectral resolution (12 bands) and non-unified spatial resolution (60/20/10 m) restrict their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Si-Sheng Young , Chia-Hsiang Lin

The recent explosion in applications of machine learning to satellite imagery often rely on visible images and therefore suffer from a lack of data during the night. The gap can be filled by employing available infra-red observations to…

Monitoring space objects is crucial for space situational awareness, yet reconstructing 3D satellite models from ground-based telescope images is challenging due to atmospheric turbulence, long observation distances, limited viewpoints, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Zhiming Chang , Boyang Liu , Yifei Xia , Youming Guo , Boxin Shi , He Sun

Buildings' segmentation is a fundamental task in the field of earth observation and aerial imagery analysis. Most existing deep learning-based methods in the literature can be applied to a fixed or narrow-range spatial resolution imagery.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Hasan Nasrallah , Mustafa Shukor , Ali J. Ghandour

For numerous earth observation applications, one may benefit from various satellite sensors to address the reconstruction of some process or information of interest. A variety of satellite sensors deliver observation data with different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Ronan Fablet , Bertrand Chapron

It is well known that featuremap attention and multi-path representation are important for visual recognition. In this paper, we present a modularized architecture, which applies the channel-wise attention on different network branches to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Hang Zhang , Chongruo Wu , Zhongyue Zhang , Yi Zhu , Haibin Lin , Zhi Zhang , Yue Sun , Tong He , Jonas Mueller , R. Manmatha , Mu Li , Alexander Smola

Vision-transformers (ViTs) and large-scale convolution-neural-networks (CNNs) have reshaped computer vision through pretrained feature representations that enable strong transfer learning for diverse tasks. However, their efficiency as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Alon Kaya , Igal Bilik , Inna Stainvas

Satellite image time series in the optical and infrared spectrum suffer from frequent data gaps due to cloud cover, cloud shadows, and temporary sensor outages. It has been a long-standing problem of remote sensing research how to best…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Corinne Stucker , Vivien Sainte Fare Garnot , Konrad Schindler

Accurate semantic segmentation of remote sensing imagery is critical for various Earth observation applications, such as land cover mapping, urban planning, and environmental monitoring. However, individual data sources often present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Ivica Dimitrovski , Vlatko Spasev , Ivan Kitanovski

In recent years, machine learning has become crucial in remote sensing analysis, particularly in the domain of Land-use/Land-cover (LULC). The synergy of machine learning and satellite imagery analysis has demonstrated significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Mingshi Li , Dusan Grujicic , Steven De Saeger , Stien Heremans , Ben Somers , Matthew B. Blaschko

Semantic segmentation is essential for analyzing highdefinition remote sensing images (HRSIs) because it allows the precise classification of objects and regions at the pixel level. However, remote sensing data present challenges owing to…

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Quantitative remote sensing inversion plays a critical role in environmental monitoring, enabling the estimation of key ecological variables such as vegetation indices, canopy structure, and carbon stock. Although vision foundation models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Zhenyu Yu , Mohd. Yamani Idna Idris , Pei Wang

Foundation models refer to deep learning models pretrained on large unlabeled datasets through self-supervised algorithms. In the Earth science and remote sensing communities, there is growing interest in transforming the use of Earth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Chuc Man Duc , Hiromichi Fukui

Scene understanding of high resolution aerial images is of great importance for the task of automated monitoring in various remote sensing applications. Due to the large within-class and small between-class variance in pixel values of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Foivos I. Diakogiannis , François Waldner , Peter Caccetta , Chen Wu

Change detection in heterogeneous multitemporal satellite images is an emerging and challenging topic in remote sensing. In particular, one of the main challenges is to tackle the problem in an unsupervised manner. In this paper we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Luigi T. Luppino , Filippo M. Bianchi , Gabriele Moser , Stian N. Anfinsen

Remote sensing image super-resolution (RSISR) plays a vital role in enhancing spatial detials and improving the quality of satellite imagery. Recently, Transformer-based models have shown competitive performance in RSISR. To mitigate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Yuting Lu , Lingtong Min , Binglu Wang , Le Zheng , Xiaoxu Wang , Yongqiang Zhao , Teng Long

Delineating farm boundaries through segmentation of satellite images is a fundamental step in many agricultural applications. The task is particularly challenging for smallholder farms, where accurate delineation requires the use of high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Aditi Agarwal , Anjali Jain , Nikita Saxena , Ishan Deshpande , Michal Kazmierski , Abigail Annkah , Nadav Sherman , Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Alok Talekar , Vaibhav Rajan