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The field of Remote Sensing Domain Generalization (RSDG) has emerged as a critical and valuable research frontier, focusing on developing models that generalize effectively across diverse scenarios. Despite the substantial domain gaps in RS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Ziyang Gong , Zhixiang Wei , Di Wang , Xiaoxing Hu , Xianzheng Ma , Hongruixuan Chen , Yuru Jia , Yupeng Deng , Zhenming Ji , Xiangwei Zhu , Xue Yang , Naoto Yokoya , Jing Zhang , Bo Du , Junchi Yan , Liangpei Zhang

Vision foundation models have attracted significant attention for their ability to leverage large-scale unlabeled visual data. This advantage is particularly important in remote sensing, where data acquisition is costly and annotation often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hyobin Park , Minseok Seo , Dong-Geol Choi

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have altered the landscape of computer vision, obtaining impressive results across a wide range of tasks, especially in zero-shot settings. Unfortunately, their strong performance does not always…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Darryl Hannan , John Cooper , Dylan White , Timothy Doster , Henry Kvinge , Yijing Watkins

When we are primarily interested in solving several problems jointly with a given prescribed high performance accuracy for each target application, then Foundation Models should for most cases be used rather than problem-specific models. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Nikolaos Dionelis , Casper Fibaek , Luke Camilleri , Andreas Luyts , Jente Bosmans , Bertrand Le Saux

Recent progress in self-supervision shows that pre-training large neural networks on vast amounts of unsupervised data can lead to impressive increases in generalisation for downstream tasks. Such models, recently coined as foundation…

Large pre-trained models, also known as foundation models (FMs), are trained in a task-agnostic manner on large-scale data and can be adapted to a wide range of downstream tasks by fine-tuning, few-shot, or even zero-shot learning. Despite…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Gengchen Mai , Weiming Huang , Jin Sun , Suhang Song , Deepak Mishra , Ninghao Liu , Song Gao , Tianming Liu , Gao Cong , Yingjie Hu , Chris Cundy , Ziyuan Li , Rui Zhu , Ni Lao

Depth estimation is a fundamental task in 3D computer vision, crucial for applications such as 3D reconstruction, free-viewpoint rendering, robotics, autonomous driving, and AR/VR technologies. Traditional methods relying on hardware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Zhen Xu , Hongyu Zhou , Sida Peng , Haotong Lin , Haoyu Guo , Jiahao Shao , Peishan Yang , Qinglin Yang , Sheng Miao , Xingyi He , Yifan Wang , Yue Wang , Ruizhen Hu , Yiyi Liao , Xiaowei Zhou , Hujun Bao

Spatio-Temporal (ST) data science, which includes sensing, managing, and mining large-scale data across space and time, is fundamental to understanding complex systems in domains such as urban computing, climate science, and intelligent…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Yuxuan Liang , Haomin Wen , Yutong Xia , Ming Jin , Bin Yang , Flora Salim , Qingsong Wen , Shirui Pan , Gao Cong

Very-High Resolution (VHR) remote sensing imagery is increasingly accessible, but often lacks annotations for effective machine learning applications. Recent foundation models like GroundingDINO and Segment Anything (SAM) provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Edoardo Arnaudo , Jacopo Lungo Vaschetti , Lorenzo Innocenti , Luca Barco , Davide Lisi , Vanina Fissore , Claudio Rossi

New UAV technologies and the NewSpace era are transforming Earth Observation missions and data acquisition. Numerous small platforms generate large data volume, straining bandwidth and requiring onboard decision-making to transmit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Cédric Léonard , Dirk Stober , Martin Schulz

While computer science has seen remarkable advancements in foundation models, which remain underexplored in geoscience. Addressing this gap, we introduce a workflow to develop geophysical foundation models, including data preparation, model…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-12-18 Hanlin Sheng , Xinming Wu , Xu Si , Jintao Li , Sibo Zhang , Xudong Duan

The paradigm of Earth Observation analysis is shifting from static deep learning models to autonomous agentic AI. Although recent vision foundation models and multimodal large language models advance representation learning, they often lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Niloufar Alipour Talemi , Julia Boone , Fatemeh Afghah

Remote sensing (RS) image retrieval is of great significant for geological information mining. Over the past two decades, a large amount of research on this task has been carried out, which mainly focuses on the following three core issues:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Xin-Yi Tong , Gui-Song Xia , Fan Hu , Yanfei Zhong , Mihai Datcu , Liangpei Zhang

Vision-Language Foundation Models (VLFMs) have made remarkable progress on various multimodal tasks, such as image captioning, image-text retrieval, visual question answering, and visual grounding. However, most methods rely on training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yue Zhou , Zhihang Zhong , Xue Yang

Remote sensing object detection (RSOD), one of the most fundamental and challenging tasks in the remote sensing field, has received longstanding attention. In recent years, deep learning techniques have demonstrated robust feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Xiangrong Zhang , Tianyang Zhang , Guanchun Wang , Peng Zhu , Xu Tang , Xiuping Jia , Licheng Jiao

Food security remains a global concern as population grows and climate change intensifies, demanding innovative solutions for sustainable agricultural productivity. Recent advances in foundation models have demonstrated remarkable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Vishal Nedungadi , Xingguo Xiong , Aike Potze , Ron Van Bree , Tao Lin , Marc Rußwurm , Ioannis N. Athanasiadis

This article is dedicated to the Earth Remote Sensing (ERS), which the authors believe is a great way to teach geography and allows forming an idea of the actual geographic features and phenomena. One of the major problems that now…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Ihor Kholoshyn , Olga Bondarenko , Olena Hanchuk , Iryna Varfolomyeyeva

Foundation models have revolutionized artificial intelligence, setting new benchmarks in performance and enabling transformative capabilities across a wide range of vision and language tasks. However, despite the prevalence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Adam Goodge , Wee Siong Ng , Bryan Hooi , See Kiong Ng

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly foundation models (FMs), have revolutionized medical image analysis, demonstrating strong zero- and few-shot performance across diverse medical imaging tasks, from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Praveenbalaji Rajendran , Mojtaba Safari , Wenfeng He , Mingzhe Hu , Shansong Wang , Jun Zhou , Xiaofeng Yang

The foundation model has recently garnered significant attention due to its potential to revolutionize the field of visual representation learning in a self-supervised manner. While most foundation models are tailored to effectively process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Danfeng Hong , Bing Zhang , Xuyang Li , Yuxuan Li , Chenyu Li , Jing Yao , Naoto Yokoya , Hao Li , Pedram Ghamisi , Xiuping Jia , Antonio Plaza , Paolo Gamba , Jon Atli Benediktsson , Jocelyn Chanussot