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About half of all optical observations collected via spaceborne satellites are affected by haze or clouds. Consequently, cloud coverage affects the remote sensing practitioner's capabilities of a continuous and seamless monitoring of our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Patrick Ebel , Yajin Xu , Michael Schmitt , Xiaoxiang Zhu

In this work we demonstrate that generative adversarial networks (GANs) can be used to generate realistic pervasive changes in remote sensing imagery, even in an unpaired training setting. We investigate some transformation quality metrics…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Christopher X. Ren , Amanda Ziemann , James Theiler , Alice M. S. Durieux

Sonar image synthesis is crucial for advancing applications in underwater exploration, marine biology, and defence. Traditional methods often rely on extensive and costly data collection using sonar sensors, jeopardizing data quality and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Purushothaman Natarajan , Kamal Basha , Athira Nambiar

In this paper, we propose a novel 3D registration paradigm, Generative Point Cloud Registration, which bridges advanced 2D generative models with 3D matching tasks to enhance registration performance. Our key idea is to generate cross-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Haobo Jiang , Jin Xie , Jian Yang , Liang Yu , Jianmin Zheng

The integration of privacy measures, including differential privacy techniques, ensures a provable privacy guarantee for the synthetic data. However, challenges arise for Generative Deep Learning models when tasked with generating realistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Anantaa Kotal , Anupam Joshi

The generative priors of pre-trained latent diffusion models (DMs) have demonstrated great potential to enhance the visual quality of image super-resolution (SR) results. However, the noise sampling process in DMs introduces randomness in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Lingchen Sun , Rongyuan Wu , Jie Liang , Zhengqiang Zhang , Hongwei Yong , Lei Zhang

The potential of using remote sensing imagery for environmental modelling and for providing real time support to humanitarian operations such as hurricane relief efforts is well established. These applications are substantially affected by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-01 Michael Zotov , Jevgenij Gamper

Ultrasound (US) is widely accepted in clinic for anatomical structure inspection. However, lacking in resources to practice US scan, novices often struggle to learn the operation skills. Also, in the deep learning era, automated US image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-02 Jiamin Liang , Xin Yang , Haoming Li , Yi Wang , Manh The Van , Haoran Dou , Chaoyu Chen , Jinghui Fang , Xiaowen Liang , Zixin Mai , Guowen Zhu , Zhiyi Chen , Dong Ni

As synthetic imagery is used more frequently in training deep models, it is important to understand how different synthesis techniques impact the performance of such models. In this work, we perform a thorough evaluation of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Kristofer Schlachter , Connor DeFanti , Sebastian Herscher , Ken Perlin , Jonathan Tompson

Addressing gaps caused by cloud cover and the long revisit cycle of satellites is vital for providing essential data to support remote sensing applications. This paper tackles the challenges of missing optical data synthesis, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Chenxi Duan

Existing point cloud completion methods, which typically depend on predefined synthetic training datasets, encounter significant challenges when applied to out-of-distribution, real-world scans. To overcome this limitation, we introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 An Li , Zhe Zhu , Mingqiang Wei

Generating a 3D point cloud from a single 2D image is of great importance for 3D scene understanding applications. To reconstruct the whole 3D shape of the object shown in the image, the existing deep learning based approaches use either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yao Wei , George Vosselman , Michael Ying Yang

In this paper the argument is made that for true novel view synthesis of objects, where the object can be synthesized from any viewpoint, an explicit 3D shape representation isdesired. Our method estimates point clouds to capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Hoang-An Le , Thomas Mensink , Partha Das , Theo Gevers

Generating synthetic images is a useful method for cheaply obtaining labeled data for training computer vision models. However, obtaining accurate 3D models of relevant objects is necessary, and the resulting images often have a gap in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Bram Vanherle , Brent Zoomers , Jeroen Put , Frank Van Reeth , Nick Michiels

Clouds significantly affect the quality of optical satellite images, which seriously limits their precise application. Recently, deep learning has been widely applied to cloud detection and has achieved satisfactory results. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Shaocong Zhu , Zhiwei Li , Xinghua Li , Huanfeng Shen

Accurate three-dimensional perception is a fundamental task in several computer vision applications. Recently, commercial RGB-depth (RGB-D) cameras have been widely adopted as single-view depth-sensing devices owing to their efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Jiwan Kim , Minchang Kim , Yeong-Gil Shin , Minyoung Chung

Urbanization, climate change, and agricultural stress are increasing the demand for precise and timely environmental monitoring. Land Surface Temperature (LST) is a key variable in this context and is retrieved from remote sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Sofiane Bouaziz , Adel Hafiane , Raphael Canals , Rachid Nedjai

Satellites equipped with optical sensors capture high-resolution imagery, providing valuable insights into various environmental phenomena. In recent years, there has been a surge of research focused on addressing some challenges in remote…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Loddo Fabio , Dario Piga , Michelucci Umberto , El Ghazouali Safouane

Mesh models have become increasingly accessible for numerous cities; however, the lack of realistic textures restricts their application in virtual urban navigation and autonomous driving. To address this, this paper proposes MeSS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Xuyang Chen , Zhijun Zhai , Kaixuan Zhou , Zengmao Wang , Jianan He , Dong Wang , Yanfeng Zhang , mingwei Sun , Rüdiger Westermann , Konrad Schindler , Liqiu Meng

Federated Learning faces significant challenges in statistical and system heterogeneity, along with high energy consumption, necessitating efficient client selection strategies. Traditional approaches, including heuristic and learning-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Zhiyuan Ning , Chunlin Tian , Meng Xiao , Wei Fan , Pengyang Wang , Li Li , Pengfei Wang , Yuanchun Zhou