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As the important component of the Earth observation system, hyperspectral imaging satellites provide high-fidelity and enriched information for the formulation of related policies due to the powerful spectral measurement capabilities.…

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In this paper, we introduce a novel method designed to enhance label efficiency in satellite imagery analysis by integrating semi-supervised learning (SSL) with active learning strategies. Our approach utilizes contrastive learning together…

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Estimating the number of buildings in any geographical region is a vital component of urban analysis, disaster management, and public policy decision. Deep learning methods for building localization and counting in satellite imagery, can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Muaaz Zakria , Hamza Rawal , Waqas Sultani , Mohsen Ali

A large variety of geospatial data layers is available around the world ranging from remotely-sensed raster data like satellite imagery, digital elevation models, predicted land cover maps, and human-annotated data, to data derived from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Arjun Rao , Esther Rolf

Recent Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) methods are able to learn feature representations that are invariant to different data augmentations, which can then be transferred to downstream tasks of interest. However, different downstream tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Chen Huang , Hanlin Goh , Jiatao Gu , Josh Susskind

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,…

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Solar irradiance is fundamental data crucial for analyses related to weather and climate. High-precision estimation models are necessary to create areal data for solar irradiance. In this study, we developed a novel estimation model by…

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Landsat-8 (NASA) and Sentinel-2 (ESA) are two prominent multi-spectral imaging satellite projects that provide publicly available data. The multi-spectral imaging sensors of the satellites capture images of the earth's surface in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Venkatesh Thirugnana Sambandham , Konstantin Kirchheim , Sayan Mukhopadhaya , Frank Ortmeier

Estimating uncertainty in image-to-image networks is an important task, particularly as such networks are being increasingly deployed in the biological and medical imaging realms. In this paper, we introduce a new approach to this problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Gilad Kutiel , Regev Cohen , Michael Elad , Daniel Freedman

Deep Neural Networks are powerful tools for understanding complex patterns and making decisions. However, their black-box nature impedes a complete understanding of their inner workings. Saliency-Guided Training (SGT) methods try to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Ali Karkehabadi , Houman Homayoun , Avesta Sasan

Remote sensing of the Earth's surface water is critical in a wide range of environmental studies, from evaluating the societal impacts of seasonal droughts and floods to the large-scale implications of climate change. Consequently, a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Joachim Moortgat , Ziwei Li , Michael Durand , Ian Howat , Bidhyananda Yadav , Chunli Dai

Detecting and masking cloud and cloud shadow from satellite remote sensing images is a pervasive problem in the remote sensing community. Accurate and efficient detection of cloud and cloud shadow is an essential step to harness the value…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Ke Xu , Kaiyu Guan , Jian Peng , Yunan Luo , Sibo Wang

Outdoor scene parsing models are often trained on ideal datasets and produce quality results. However, this leads to a discrepancy when applied to the real world. The quality of scene parsing, particularly sky classification, decreases in…

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This work has been accepted by IEEE TGRS for publication. The majority of optical observations acquired via spaceborne earth imagery are affected by clouds. While there is numerous prior work on reconstructing cloud-covered information,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-07 Patrick Ebel , Andrea Meraner , Michael Schmitt , Xiaoxiang Zhu

Satellite image classification is a challenging problem that lies at the crossroads of remote sensing, computer vision, and machine learning. Due to the high variability inherent in satellite data, most of the current object classification…

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Masked reconstruction serves as a fundamental pretext task for self-supervised learning, enabling the model to enhance its feature extraction capabilities by reconstructing the masked segments from extensive unlabeled data. In human…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Jinqiang Wang , Tao Zhu , Huansheng Ning

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) is a technique in self-supervised learning that focuses on acquiring detailed visual representations from unlabeled images by estimating the missing pixels in randomly masked sections. It has proven to be a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Khanh-Binh Nguyen , Chae Jung Park

Cloud formations often obscure optical satellite-based monitoring of the Earth's surface, thus limiting Earth observation (EO) activities such as land cover mapping, ocean color analysis, and cropland monitoring. The integration of machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Aleksis Pirinen , Nosheen Abid , Nuria Agues Paszkowsky , Thomas Ohlson Timoudas , Ronald Scheirer , Chiara Ceccobello , György Kovács , Anders Persson

Downsampling is widely adopted to achieve a good trade-off between accuracy and latency for visual recognition. Unfortunately, the commonly used pooling layers are not learned, and thus cannot preserve important information. As another…

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