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Robots can be used to collect environmental data in regions that are difficult for humans to traverse. However, limitations remain in the size of region that a robot can directly observe per unit time. We introduce a method for selecting a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Elizabeth A. Ricci , Madeleine Udell , Ross A. Knepper

Scientific discovery is often slowed by the manual development of computational tools needed to analyze complex experimental data. Building such tools is costly and time-consuming because scientists must iteratively review literature, test…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Alistair Turcan , Kexin Huang , Lei Li , Martin Jinye Zhang

Ground-based telescopes coupled with adaptive optics (AO) have been playing a leading role in exoplanet direct imaging science and technological development for the past two decades and will continue to have an indispensable role for the…

Large language models (LLMs) have moved far beyond their initial form as simple chatbots, now carrying out complex reasoning, planning, writing, coding, and research tasks. These skills overlap significantly with those that human scientists…

Can AI effectively perform complex econometric analysis traditionally requiring human expertise? This paper evaluates AI agents' capability to master econometrics, focusing on empirical analysis performance. We develop ``MetricsAI'', an…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-01-29 Qiang Chen , Tianyang Han , Jin Li , Ye Luo , Zigan Wang , Yuxiao Wu , Xiaowei Zhang , Tuo Zhou

Deep observations of the Universe, usually as a part of sky surveys, are one of the symbols of the modern astronomy because they can allow big collaborations, exploiting multiple facilities and shared knowledge. The new generation of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-18 Elisa Portaluri , Valentina Viotto , Roberto Ragazzoni , Carmelo Arcidiacono , Maria Bergomi , Marco Dima , Davide Greggio , Jacopo Farinato , Demetrio Magrin

The paradigm of Earth Observation analysis is shifting from static deep learning models to autonomous agentic AI. Although recent vision foundation models and multimodal large language models advance representation learning, they often lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Niloufar Alipour Talemi , Julia Boone , Fatemeh Afghah

Ground-based telescopes have been playing a leading role in exoplanet direct imaging science and technological development for the past two decades and will continue to have an indispensable role for the next decade and beyond. Extreme…

Vision-langugage models (VLMs) have shown strong performance in computer vision (CV), yet their performance on remote sensing (RS) data remains limited due to the lack of large-scale, multi-sensor RS image-text datasets with diverse textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Johann-Ludwig Herzog , Mathis Jürgen Adler , Leonard Hackel , Yan Shu , Angelos Zavras , Ioannis Papoutsis , Paolo Rota , Begüm Demir

We present the Hierarchical AI-Meteorologist, an LLM-agent system that generates explainable weather reports using a hierarchical forecast reasoning and weather keyword generation. Unlike standard approaches that treat forecasts as flat…

Large area surveys will dominate the forthcoming decades of astronomy and their success requires characterizing thousands of discoveries through additional observations at higher spatial or spectral resolution, and at complementary cadences…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-10 Christoph Baranec , Reed Riddle , Nicholas M. Law

The Earth observation satellites (EOSs) scheduling is of great importance to achieve efficient observation missions. The agile EOSs (AEOS) with stronger attitude maneuvering capacity can greatly improve observation efficiency while…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-13 Xinwei Wang , Chao Han , Rui Zhang , Yi Gu

Soil assessment is important for mobile robot planning and navigation on natural and planetary environments. Terramechanic characteristics can be inferred from the thermal behaviour of soils under the influence of sunlight using remote…

Large Language Models (LLMs) have extended their impact beyond Natural Language Processing, substantially fostering the development of interdisciplinary research. Recently, various LLM-based agents have been developed to assist scientific…

In the era of deep learning, annotated datasets have become a crucial asset to the remote sensing community. In the last decade, a plethora of different datasets was published, each designed for a specific data type and with a specific task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Michael Schmitt , Pedram Ghamisi , Naoto Yokoya , Ronny Hänsch

Earth vision has achieved milestones in geospatial object recognition but lacks exploration in object-relational reasoning, limiting comprehensive scene understanding. To address this, a progressive Earth vision-language understanding and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Junjue Wang , Yanfei Zhong , Zihang Chen , Zhuo Zheng , Ailong Ma , Liangpei Zhang

Recent research has demonstrated the effectiveness of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and more specifically, Large Language Models (LLMs), in supporting network configuration synthesis and automating network diagnosis tasks, among others. In…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zhihao Wang , Alessandro Cornacchia , Franco Galante , Carlo Centofanti , Alessio Sacco , Dingde Jiang

Geospatial code generation is becoming a key frontier in integrating artificial intelligence with geo-scientific analysis, yet standardised automated evaluation tools for this task remain absent. This study presents AutoGEEval++, an…

In this paper, a software-based simulator for the deployment of base station-equipped unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a cellular network is proposed. To this end, the Google Earth Engine platform and its included image processing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Aaron French , Mohammad Mozaffari , Abdelrahman Eldosouky , Walid Saad

Foundation models are rapidly transforming Earth Observation data mining by enabling generalizable and scalable solutions for key tasks such as scene classification and semantic segmentation. While most efforts in the geospatial domain have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Man Duc Chuc