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Despite significant progress in monocular depth estimation in the wild, recent state-of-the-art methods cannot be used to recover accurate 3D scene shape due to an unknown depth shift induced by shift-invariant reconstruction losses used in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Wei Yin , Jianming Zhang , Oliver Wang , Simon Niklaus , Long Mai , Simon Chen , Chunhua Shen

Innovations in computer vision algorithms for satellite image analysis can enable us to explore global challenges such as urbanization and land use change at the planetary level. However, domain shift problems are a common occurrence when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Caleb Robinson , Anthony Ortiz , Hogeun Park , Nancy Lozano Gracia , Jon Kher Kaw , Tina Sederholm , Rahul Dodhia , Juan M. Lavista Ferres

Large-scale analysis of pedestrian infrastructures, particularly sidewalks, is critical to human-centric urban planning and design. Benefiting from the rich data set of planimetric features and high-resolution orthoimages provided through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Maryam Hosseini , Iago B. Araujo , Hamed Yazdanpanah , Eric K. Tokuda , Fabio Miranda , Claudio T. Silva , Roberto M. Cesar

This letter proposes a novel approach for compensating target height data in 2D seabed mosaicking for low-visibility underwater perception. Acoustic cameras are effective sensors for sensing the marine environments due to their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Xiaoteng Zhou , Yusheng Wang , Katsunori Mizuno

Shadows cast by terrain and tall structures remain a major obstacle for high-resolution satellite image analysis, degrading classification, detection, and 3D reconstruction performance. Public resources offering geometry-consistent paired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Lorenzo Beltrame , Jules Salzinger , Filip Svoboda , Phillipp Fanta-Jende , Jasmin Lampert , Radu Timofte , Marco Körner

Recent advances in deep-learning based methods for image matching have demonstrated their superiority over traditional algorithms, enabling correspondence estimation in challenging scenes with significant differences in viewing angles,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Rahul Deshmukh , Avinash Kak

Accurate 3D lane detection from monocular images presents significant challenges due to depth ambiguity and imperfect ground modeling. Previous attempts to model the ground have often used a planar ground assumption with limited degrees of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Chaesong Park , Eunbin Seo , Jongwoo Lim

One of the promising applications of satellite images is building construction monitoring. It allows to control the construction progress around the world even in the locations that are hard to reach. One of the main hurdles of this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Insaf Ashrapov , Dmitriy Malakhov , Anton Marchenkov , Anton Lulin , Dani El-Ayyass

In this research the number of palm trees was calculated from the satellite image programmatically, taking advantage of the accuracy of the spatial resolution of satellite image, the abilities of software recognition, and characteristics of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-30 Emad Ali Al-helaly , Noor Ali Al-Helaly

Building height, the third dimension (3D) of urban spatial data, is absent in over 95% of structures in global geospatial databases. For the emerging low-altitude economy, this data gap forces each aerial platform to rely on real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xiang Xie , Xiaonan Liu

We propose a data-driven learned sky model, which we use for outdoor lighting estimation from a single image. As no large-scale dataset of images and their corresponding ground truth illumination is readily available, we use complementary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Akshaya Athawale , Jean-François Lalonde

Risk-aware urban localization with the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) remains an unsolved problem with frequent misdetection of the user's street or side of the street. Significant advances in 3D map-aided GNSS use grid-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Daniel Neamati , Sriramya Bhamidipati , Grace Gao

Sky-image-based solar forecasting using deep learning has been recognized as a promising approach in reducing the uncertainty in solar power generation. However, one of the biggest challenges is the lack of massive and diversified sky image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Yuhao Nie , Xiatong Li , Quentin Paletta , Max Aragon , Andea Scott , Adam Brandt

The estimation of 3D human body shape and clothing measurements is crucial for virtual try-on and size recommendation problems in the fashion industry but has always been a challenging problem due to several conditions, such as lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Kundan Sai Prabhu Thota , Sungho Suh , Bo Zhou , Paul Lukowicz

Mapping buildings and roads automatically with remote sensing typically requires high-resolution imagery, which is expensive to obtain and often sparsely available. In this work we demonstrate how multiple 10 m resolution Sentinel-2 images…

We present a fully automatic approach for reconstructing compact 3D building models from large-scale airborne point clouds. A major challenge of urban reconstruction from airborne LiDAR point clouds lies in that the vertical walls are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Jin Huang , Jantien Stoter , Ravi Peters , Liangliang Nan

Researchers are doing intensive work on satellite images due to the information it contains with the development of computer vision algorithms and the ease of accessibility to satellite images. Building segmentation of satellite images can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Metehan Yalçın , Ahmet Alp Kindiroglu , Furkan Burak Bağcı , Ufuk Uyan , Mahiye Uluyağmur Öztürk

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are widely used in target recognition tasks nowadays. In this letter, we propose an automatic approach for radar shadow detection and extraction from SAR images utilizing geometric projections along…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-16 V. B. S. Prasath , O. Haddad

Extracting building footprints from aerial images is essential for precise urban mapping with photogrammetric computer vision technologies. Existing approaches mainly assume that the roof and footprint of a building are well overlapped,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Jinwang Wang , Lingxuan Meng , Weijia Li , Wen Yang , Lei Yu , Gui-Song Xia

Shadows are common aspect of images and when left undetected can hinder scene understanding and visual processing. We propose a simple yet effective approach based on reflectance to detect shadows from single image. An image is first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Sri Kalyan Yarlagadda , Fengqing Zhu