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The prediction of surrounding agents' motion is a key for safe autonomous driving. In this paper, we explore navigation maps as an alternative to the predominant High Definition (HD) maps for learning-based motion prediction. Navigation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Julian Schmidt , Julian Jordan , Franz Gritschneder , Thomas Monninger , Klaus Dietmayer

The next generation of cosmological spectroscopic sky surveys will probe the distribution of matter across several Gigaparsecs (Gpc) or many billion light-years. In order to leverage the rich data in these new maps to gain a better…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-08 Cooper Jacobus , Roger de Belsunce , Solene Chabanier , Peter Harrington , JD Emberson , Zarija Lukić , Salman Habib

The creation of a metric-semantic map, which encodes human-prior knowledge, represents a high-level abstraction of environments. However, constructing such a map poses challenges related to the fusion of multi-modal sensor data, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Jianhao Jiao , Ruoyu Geng , Yuanhang Li , Ren Xin , Bowen Yang , Jin Wu , Lujia Wang , Ming Liu , Rui Fan , Dimitrios Kanoulas

Dense ground displacement measurements are crucial for geological studies but are impractical to collect directly. Traditionally, displacement fields are estimated using patch matching on optical satellite images from different acquisition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Juliette Bertrand , Sophie Giffard-Roisin , James Hollingsworth , Julien Mairal

Validation of flood models, used to support risk mitigation strategies, remains challenging due to limited observations during extreme events. High-frequency, high-resolution optical imagery (~3 m), such as PlanetScope, offers new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Azizbek Nuriddinov , Ebrahim Ahmadisharaf , Mohammad Reza Alizadeh

Coral reefs are among the most diverse ecosystems on our planet, and are depended on by hundreds of millions of people. Unfortunately, most coral reefs are existentially threatened by global climate change and local anthropogenic pressures.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Jonathan Sauder , Guilhem Banc-Prandi , Anders Meibom , Devis Tuia

Recent advances have introduced diffusion models for probabilistic streamflow forecasting, demonstrating strong early flood-warning skill. However, current implementations rely on recurrent Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) backbones and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yihan Wang , Annan Yu , Lujun Zhang , Charuleka Varadharajan , N. Benjamin Erichson

Urban downscaling is a link to transfer the knowledge from coarser climate information to city scale assessments. These high-resolution assessments need multiyear climatology of past data and future projections, which are complex and…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-09-16 Manmeet Singh , Nachiketa Acharya , Sajad Jamshidi , Junfeng Jiao , Zong-Liang Yang , Marc Coudert , Zach Baumer , Dev Niyogi

With the ever-increasing volumes of the Earth observation data present in the archives of large programmes such as Copernicus, there is a growing need for efficient vector representations of the underlying raw data. The approach of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Mikolaj Czerkawski , Marcin Kluczek , Jędrzej S. Bojanowski

Flooding is the most devastating phenomenon occurring globally, particularly in mountainous regions, risk dramatically increases due to complex terrains and extreme climate changes. These situations are damaging livelihoods, agriculture,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Haleema Bibi , Sadia Saleem , Zakia Jalil , Muhammad Nasir , Tahani Alsubait

State-of-the-art image segmentation algorithms generally consist of at least two successive and distinct computations: a boundary detection process that uses local image information to classify image locations as boundaries between objects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Michał Januszewski , Jeremy Maitin-Shepard , Peter Li , Jörgen Kornfeld , Winfried Denk , Viren Jain

Ongoing advancements in computer vision, particularly in pattern recognition and scene classification, have enabled new applications in environmental monitoring. Deep learning now offers non-contact methods for assessing water quality and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Shubham Laxmikant Deshmukh , Matthew Wilchek , Feras A. Batarseh

Recently, road graph extraction has garnered increasing attention due to its crucial role in autonomous driving, navigation, etc. However, accurately and efficiently extracting road graphs remains a persistent challenge, primarily due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Pan Yin , Kaiyu Li , Xiangyong Cao , Jing Yao , Lei Liu , Xueru Bai , Feng Zhou , Deyu Meng

Oceanographic forecasting impacts various sectors of society by supporting environmental conservation and economic activities. Based on global circulation models, traditional forecasting methods are computationally expensive and slow,…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-06-09 Giovanny A. Cuervo-Londoño , Javier Sánchez , Ángel Rodríguez-Santana

Understanding land cover holds considerable potential for a myriad of practical applications, particularly as data accessibility transitions from being exclusive to governmental and commercial entities to now including the broader research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Victor Radermecker , Andrea Zanon , Nancy Thomas , Annita Vapsi , Saba Rahimi , Rama Ramakrishnan , Daniel Borrajo

Navigating and understanding the real world remains a key challenge in machine learning and inspires a great variety of research in areas such as language grounding, planning, navigation and computer vision. We propose an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Karl Moritz Hermann , Mateusz Malinowski , Piotr Mirowski , Andras Banki-Horvath , Keith Anderson , Raia Hadsell

Hydrodynamic flood modeling improves hydrologic and hydraulic prediction of storm events. However, the computationally intensive numerical solutions required for high-resolution hydrodynamics have historically prevented their implementation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Francisco Haces-Garcia , Natalya Maslennikova , Craig L Glennie , Hanadi S Rifai , Vedhus Hoskere , Nima Ekhtari

While designing sustainable and resilient urban built environment is increasingly promoted around the world, significant data gaps have made research on pressing sustainability issues challenging to carry out. Pavements are known to have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Maryam Hosseini , Fabio Miranda , Jianzhe Lin , Claudio Silva

Deep learning offers promising capabilities for the statistical downscaling of climate and weather forecasts, with generative approaches showing particular success in capturing fine-scale precipitation patterns. However, most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Paula Harder , Christian Lessig , Matthew Chantry , Francis Pelletier , David Rolnick

Predicting where people can walk in a scene is important for many tasks, including autonomous driving systems and human behavior analysis. Yet learning a computational model for this purpose is challenging due to semantic ambiguity and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Jin Sun , Hadar Averbuch-Elor , Qianqian Wang , Noah Snavely