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This paper introduces speech-based visual question answering (VQA), the task of generating an answer given an image and a spoken question. Two methods are studied: an end-to-end, deep neural network that directly uses audio waveforms as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Ted Zhang , Dengxin Dai , Tinne Tuytelaars , Marie-Francine Moens , Luc Van Gool

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery is widely used for flood monitoring due to its all-weather and day-night imaging capability. However, flood mapping using single-polarization SAR data remains challenging in complex environments where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Jagrati Talreja , Tewodros Syum Gebre , Leila Hashemi Beni

Significant differences in optical images and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are caused by fundamental differences in the physical principles underlying their acquisition by Earth remote sensing platforms. These differences make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Alexey Borisov , Evgeny Myasnikov , Vladislav Myasnikov

Image Super-Resolution (SR) provides a promising technique to enhance the image quality of low-resolution optical sensors, facilitating better-performing target detection and autonomous navigation in a wide range of robotics applications.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Fan Wang , Jiangxin Yang , Yanlong Cao , Yanpeng Cao , Michael Ying Yang

Cloud removal is a relevant topic in Remote Sensing as it fosters the usability of high-resolution optical images for Earth monitoring and study. Related techniques have been analyzed for years with a progressively clearer view of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Alessandro Sebastianelli , Artur Nowakowski , Erika Puglisi , Maria Pia Del Rosso , Jamila Mifdal , Fiora Pirri , Pierre Philippe Mathieu , Silvia Liberata Ullo

Visual question answering (VQA) is a task that combines both the techniques of computer vision and natural language processing. It requires models to answer a text-based question according to the information contained in a visual. In recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Yeyun Zou , Qiyu Xie

Visual question answering (VQA) for remote sensing scene has great potential in intelligent human-computer interaction system. Although VQA in computer vision has been widely researched, VQA for remote sensing data (RSVQA) is still in its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Zhenghang Yuan , Lichao Mou , Qi Wang , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and optical image registration is essential for remote sensing data fusion, with applications in military reconnaissance, environmental monitoring, and disaster management. However, challenges arise from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Wenfei Zhang , Ruipeng Zhao , Yongxiang Yao , Yi Wan , Peihao Wu , Jiayuan Li , Yansheng Li , Yongjun Zhang

In this paper we discuss the potential and challenges regarding SAR-optical stereogrammetry for urban areas, using very-high-resolution (VHR) remote sensing imagery. Since we do this mainly from a geometrical point of view, we first analyze…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-27 Chunping Qiu , Michael Schmitt , Xiao Xiang Zhu

There is a key problem in the medical visual question answering task that how to effectively realize the feature fusion of language and medical images with limited datasets. In order to better utilize multi-scale information of medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Shanshan Song , Jiangyun Li , Jing Wang , Yuanxiu Cai , Wenkai Dong

Visual question answering (VQA) refers to the problem where, given an image and a natural language question about the image, a correct natural language answer has to be generated. A VQA model has to demonstrate both the visual understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Raihan Kabir , Naznin Haque , Md Saiful Islam , Marium-E-Jannat

The extraction of visual features is an essential step in Visual Question Answering (VQA). Building a good visual representation of the analyzed scene is indeed one of the essential keys for the system to be able to correctly understand the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Hichem Boussaid , Lucrezia Tosato , Flora Weissgerber , Camille Kurtz , Laurent Wendling , Sylvain Lobry

Earth observation satellites like Sentinel-1 (S1) and Sentinel-2 (S2) provide complementary remote sensing (RS) data, but S2 images are often unavailable due to cloud cover or data gaps. To address this, we propose a diffusion model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Kaan Aydin , Joelle Hanna , Damian Borth

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a crucial remote sensing technology, enabling all-weather, day-and-night observation with strong surface penetration for precise and continuous environmental monitoring and analysis. However, SAR image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Yimin Wei , Aoran Xiao , Yexian Ren , Yuting Zhu , Hongruixuan Chen , Junshi Xia , Naoto Yokoya

In this research, we deal with the problem of visual question answering (VQA) in remote sensing. While remotely sensed images contain information significant for the task of identification and object detection, they pose a great challenge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Jayesh Songara , Shivam Pande , Shabnam Choudhury , Biplab Banerjee , Rajbabu Velmurugan

Question answering (QA) systems are designed to answer natural language questions. Visual QA (VQA) and Spoken QA (SQA) systems extend the textual QA system to accept visual and spoken input respectively. This work aims to create a system…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Nimrod Shabtay , Zvi Kons , Avihu Dekel , Hagai Aronowitz , Ron Hoory , Assaf Arbelle

We synthesize both optical RGB and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote sensing images from land cover maps and auxiliary raster data using generative adversarial networks (GANs). In remote sensing, many types of data, such as digital…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Gerald Baier , Antonin Deschemps , Michael Schmitt , Naoto Yokoya

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging systems operate by emitting radar signals from a moving object, such as a satellite, towards the target of interest. Reflected radar echoes are received and later used by image formation algorithms to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-02 Andrew Rittenbach , John Paul Walters

Synthetic aperture radar has the ability to work 24/7 and 24/7, and has high application value. Propose a new SAR image matching algorithm based on multi class features, mainly using two different types of features: straight lines and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Mazhi Qiang , Fengming Zhou

Visual Question Answering (VQA) presents a unique challenge as it requires the ability to understand and encode the multi-modal inputs - in terms of image processing and natural language processing. The algorithm further needs to learn how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Supriya Pandhre , Shagun Sodhani