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Foundation models have transformed natural language processing and computer vision, and their impact is now reshaping remote sensing image analysis. With powerful generalization and transfer learning capabilities, they align naturally with…

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Recently, the remarkable success of ChatGPT has sparked a renewed wave of interest in artificial intelligence (AI), and the advancements in visual language models (VLMs) have pushed this enthusiasm to new heights. Differring from previous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Lijie Tao , Haokui Zhang , Haizhao Jing , Yu Liu , Dawei Yan , Guoting Wei , Xizhe Xue

The advancement of remote sensing, including satellite systems, facilitates the continuous acquisition of remote sensing imagery globally, introducing novel challenges for achieving open-world tasks. Deployed models need to continuously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Xiang Xiang , Zhuo Xu , Yao Deng , Qinhao Zhou , Yifan Liang , Ke Chen , Qingfang Zheng , Yaowei Wang , Xilin Chen , Wen Gao

Deep learning methods have significantly advanced the development of intelligent rinterpretation in remote sensing (RS), with foundational model research based on large-scale pre-training paradigms rapidly reshaping various domains of Earth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Zhiwei Yi , Xin Cheng , Jingyu Ma , Ruifei Zhu , Junwei Tian , Yuanxiu Zhou , Xinge Zhao , Hongzhe Li

One of the main purposes of earth observation is to extract interested information and knowledge from remote sensing (RS) images with high efficiency and accuracy. However, with the development of RS technologies, RS system provide images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Lefei Zhang

As a newly emerging advance in deep generative models, diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art results in many fields, including computer vision, natural language processing, and molecule design. The remote sensing (RS) community…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Yidan Liu , Jun Yue , Shaobo Xia , Pedram Ghamisi , Weiying Xie , Leyuan Fang

The convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and Earth observation (EO) technologies has brought geoscience and remote sensing into an era of unparalleled capabilities. AI's transformative impact on data analysis, particularly derived…

In the last years we have witnessed the fields of geosciences and remote sensing and artificial intelligence to become closer. Thanks to both the massive availability of observational data, improved simulations, and algorithmic advances,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Devis Tuia , Ribana Roscher , Jan Dirk Wegner , Nathan Jacobs , Xiao Xiang Zhu , Gustau Camps-Valls

Foundation models (FMs) are catalyzing a transformative shift in materials science (MatSci) by enabling scalable, general-purpose, and multimodal AI systems for scientific discovery. Unlike traditional machine learning models, which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Minh-Hao Van , Prateek Verma , Chen Zhao , Xintao Wu

Large vision-language models (VLMs) exhibit strong performance across various tasks. However, these VLMs encounter significant challenges when applied to the remote sensing domain due to the inherent differences between remote sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Yunkai Dang , Donghao Wang , Jiacheng Yang , Yifan Jiang , Meiyi Zhu , Yuekun Yang , Cong Wang , Qi Fan , Wenbin Li , Yang Gao

Urban areas are not only one of the biggest contributors to climate change, but also they are one of the most vulnerable areas with high populations who would together experience the negative impacts. In this paper, we address some of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Beril Sirmacek , Ricardo Vinuesa

We explore the scaling behaviors of artificial intelligence to establish practical techniques for training foundation models on high-resolution electro-optical (EO) datasets that exceed the current state-of-the-art scale by orders of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Charith Wickrema , Eliza Mace , Hunter Brown , Heidys Cabrera , Nick Krall , Matthew O'Neill , Shivangi Sarkar , Lowell Weissman , Eric Hughes , Guido Zarrella

A robust Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) for Earth Observation should maintain consistent interpretation and reasoning under realistic input variations. However, current Remote Sensing MLLMs fail to meet this requirement. Trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Rui Min , Liang Yao , Shiyu Miao , Shengxiang Xu , Yuxuan Liu , Chuanyi Zhang , Shimin Di , Fan Liu

Earth Observation (EO) data encompass a vast range of remotely sensed information, featuring multi-sensor and multi-temporal, playing an indispensable role in understanding our planet's dynamics. Recently, Vision Language Models (VLMs) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Xizhe Xue , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Object detection in optical remote sensing images, being a fundamental but challenging problem in the field of aerial and satellite image analysis, plays an important role for a wide range of applications and is receiving significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Gong Cheng , Junwei Han

Foundation models have advanced machine learning across various modalities, including images. Recently multiple teams trained foundation models specialized for remote sensing applications. This line of research is motivated by the distinct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Ani Vanyan , Alvard Barseghyan , Hakob Tamazyan , Tigran Galstyan , Vahan Huroyan , Naira Hovakimyan , Hrant Khachatrian

Earth Observation (EO) systems are crucial for cartography, disaster surveillance, and resource administration. Nonetheless, they encounter considerable obstacles in the processing and transmission of extensive data, especially in…

Large-scale foundation models (FMs) in remote sensing (RS) are developed based on the paradigms established in computer vision (CV) and have shown promise for various Earth observation applications. However, the direct transfer of scaling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Leonard Hackel , Tom Burgert , Begüm Demir

Geospatial foundation models (GFMs) for Earth observation often fail to perform reliably in environments underrepresented during pretraining. We introduce SHRUG-FM, a framework for reliability-aware prediction that enables GFMs to identify…

Geospatial foundation models (GFMs) have emerged as a promising approach to overcoming the limitations in existing featurization methods. More recently, Google DeepMind has introduced AlphaEarth Foundation (AEF), a GFM pre-trained using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yuchi Ma , Yawen Shen , Anu Swatantran , David B. Lobell