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Remote Sensing (RS) data encapsulates rich multi-dimensional information essential for Earth observation. Its vast volume, diverse sources, and temporal continuity make it particularly well-suited for developing large Visual Foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Xuyang Li , Chenyu Li , Gemine Vivone , Danfeng Hong

Multimodal models are expected to be a critical component to future advances in artificial intelligence. This field is starting to grow rapidly with a surge of new design elements motivated by the success of foundation models in natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Sai Munikoti , Ian Stewart , Sameera Horawalavithana , Henry Kvinge , Tegan Emerson , Sandra E Thompson , Karl Pazdernik

In remote sensing, each sensor can provide complementary or reinforcing information. It is valuable to fuse outputs from multiple sensors to boost overall performance. Previous supervised fusion methods often require accurate labels for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Xiaoxiao Du , Alina Zare

Forests are vital to ecosystems, supporting biodiversity and essential services, but are rapidly changing due to land use and climate change. Understanding and mitigating negative effects requires parsing data on forests at global scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Nikolaos Ioannis Bountos , Arthur Ouaknine , Ioannis Papoutsis , David Rolnick

We present GeoGrid-Bench, a benchmark designed to evaluate the ability of foundation models to understand geo-spatial data in the grid structure. Geo-spatial datasets pose distinct challenges due to their dense numerical values, strong…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Bowen Jiang , Yangxinyu Xie , Xiaomeng Wang , Jiashu He , Joshua Bergerson , John K Hutchison , Jordan Branham , Camillo J Taylor , Tanwi Mallick

Multimodal deep learning systems which employ multiple modalities like text, image, audio, video, etc., are showing better performance in comparison with individual modalities (i.e., unimodal) systems. Multimodal machine learning involves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Anil Rahate , Rahee Walambe , Sheela Ramanna , Ketan Kotecha

Remote sensing object detection (RSOD), one of the most fundamental and challenging tasks in the remote sensing field, has received longstanding attention. In recent years, deep learning techniques have demonstrated robust feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Xiangrong Zhang , Tianyang Zhang , Guanchun Wang , Peng Zhu , Xu Tang , Xiuping Jia , Licheng Jiao

Unified remote sensing multimodal models exhibit a pronounced spatial reversal curse: Although they can accurately recognize and describe object locations in images, they often fail to faithfully execute the same spatial relations during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Weiyu Zhang , Yuan Hu , Yong Li , Yu Liu

Geometric information in the normalized digital surface models (nDSM) is highly correlated with the semantic class of the land cover. Exploiting two modalities (RGB and nDSM (height)) jointly has great potential to improve the segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Zhitong Xiong , Sining Chen , Yi Wang , Lichao Mou , Xiao Xiang Zhu

The rise of foundation models has transformed machine learning research, prompting efforts to uncover their inner workings and develop more efficient and reliable applications for better control. While significant progress has been made in…

Remote sensing datasets offer significant promise for tackling key classification tasks such as land-use categorization, object presence detection, and rural/urban classification. However, many existing studies tend to focus on narrow tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Gautam Siddharth Kashyap , Manaswi Kulahara , Nipun Joshi , Usman Naseem

Deep Learning has implemented a wide range of applications and has become increasingly popular in recent years. The goal of multimodal deep learning is to create models that can process and link information using various modalities. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Jabeen Summaira , Xi Li , Amin Muhammad Shoib , Songyuan Li , Jabbar Abdul

As the potential of foundation models in visual tasks has garnered significant attention, pretraining these models before downstream tasks has become a crucial step. The three key factors in pretraining foundation models are the pretraining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Keumgang Cha , Junghoon Seo , Taekyung Lee

Classification and identification of the materials lying over or beneath the Earth's surface have long been a fundamental but challenging research topic in geoscience and remote sensing (RS) and have garnered a growing concern owing to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Danfeng Hong , Lianru Gao , Naoto Yokoya , Jing Yao , Jocelyn Chanussot , Qian Du , Bing Zhang

Building multisensory AI systems that learn from multiple sensory inputs such as text, speech, video, real-world sensors, wearable devices, and medical data holds great promise for impact in many scientific areas with practical benefits,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Paul Pu Liang

Foundation models have indeed made a profound impact on various fields, emerging as pivotal components that significantly shape the capabilities of intelligent systems. In the context of intelligent vehicles, leveraging the power of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Sheng Luo , Wei Chen , Wanxin Tian , Rui Liu , Luanxuan Hou , Xiubao Zhang , Haifeng Shen , Ruiqi Wu , Shuyi Geng , Yi Zhou , Ling Shao , Yi Yang , Bojun Gao , Qun Li , Guobin Wu

Recent advancements in perception for autonomous driving are driven by deep learning. In order to achieve robust and accurate scene understanding, autonomous vehicles are usually equipped with different sensors (e.g. cameras, LiDARs,…

Remote sensing has become a vital tool across sectors such as urban planning, environmental monitoring, and disaster response. While the volume of data generated has increased significantly, traditional vision models are often constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Jia Yun Chua , Argyrios Zolotas , Miguel Arana-Catania

Recent advances in remote sensing have led to an increase in the number of available foundation models; each trained on different modalities, datasets, and objectives, yet capturing only part of the vast geospatial knowledge landscape.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Joelle Hanna , Damian Falk , Stella X. Yu , Damian Borth

Foundation models have the potential to transform the landscape of remote sensing (RS) data analysis by enabling large computer vision models to be pre-trained on vast amounts of remote sensing data. These models can then be fine-tuned with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Caleb S. Spradlin , Jordan A. Caraballo-Vega , Jian Li , Mark L. Carroll , Jie Gong , Paul M. Montesano