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Satellite-to-street view synthesis aims at generating a realistic street-view image from its corresponding satellite-view image. Although stable diffusion models have exhibit remarkable performance in a variety of image generation…

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We introduce Seamless Satellite-image Synthesis (SSS), a novel neural architecture to create scale-and-space continuous satellite textures from cartographic data. While 2D map data is cheap and easily synthesized, accurate satellite imagery…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Jialin Zhu , Tom Kelly

Cross modal image syntheses is gaining significant interests for its ability to estimate target images of a different modality from a given set of source images,like estimating MR to MR, MR to CT, CT to PET etc, without the need for an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Deepa Gunashekar , Sailesh Conjeti , Abhijit Guha Roy , Nassir Navab , Kuangyu Shi

This paper presents a novel CNN-based approach for synthesizing high-resolution LiDAR point cloud data. Our approach generates semantically and perceptually realistic results with guidance from specialized loss-functions. First, we utilize…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-27 Larissa T. Triess , David Peter , Christoph B. Rist , Markus Enzweiler , J. Marius Zöllner

This research paper introduces a synthetic hyperspectral dataset that combines high spectral and spatial resolution imaging to achieve a comprehensive, accurate, and detailed representation of observed scenes or objects. Obtaining such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Yajie Sun , Ali Zia , Jun Zhou

High-resolution satellite imagery has proven useful for a broad range of tasks, including measurement of global human population, local economic livelihoods, and biodiversity, among many others. Unfortunately, high-resolution imagery is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Yutong He , Dingjie Wang , Nicholas Lai , William Zhang , Chenlin Meng , Marshall Burke , David B. Lobell , Stefano Ermon

With the increasing availability of optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images thanks to the Sentinel constellation, and the explosion of deep learning, new methods have emerged in recent years to tackle the reconstruction of optical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Rémi Cresson , Nicolas Narçon , Raffaele Gaetano , Aurore Dupuis , Yannick Tanguy , Stéphane May , Benjamin Commandre

Satellite images are often contaminated by clouds. Cloud removal has received much attention due to the wide range of satellite image applications. As the clouds thicken, the process of removing the clouds becomes more challenging. In such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-23 Faramarz Naderi Darbaghshahi , Mohammad Reza Mohammadi , Mohsen Soryani

Fundus photography is a routine examination in clinics to diagnose and monitor ocular diseases. However, for cataract patients, the fundus image always suffers quality degradation caused by the clouding lens. The degradation prevents…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-13 Heng Li , Haofeng Liu , Huazhu Fu , Hai Shu , Yitian Zhao , Xiaoling Luo , Yan Hu , Jiang Liu

Earth observing satellites carrying multi-spectral sensors are widely used to monitor the physical and biological states of the atmosphere, land, and oceans. These satellites have different vantage points above the earth and different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Thomas Vandal , Daniel McDuff , Weile Wang , Andrew Michaelis , Ramakrishna Nemani

Existing image synthesis methods for natural scenes focus primarily on foreground control, often reducing the background to simplistic textures. Consequently, these approaches tend to overlook the intrinsic correlation between foreground…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Mu Zhang , Yunfan Liu , Yue Liu , Yuzhong Zhao , Qixiang Ye

The performance of neural network models is often limited by the availability of big data sets. To treat this problem, we survey and develop novel synthetic data generation and augmentation techniques for enhancing low/zero-sample learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Nathan Clement , Alan Schoen , Arnold Boedihardjo , Andrew Jenkins

Stereo matching is an important problem in computer vision which has drawn tremendous research attention for decades. Recent years, data-driven methods with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are continuously pushing stereo matching to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Ju He , Enyu Zhou , Liusheng Sun , Fei Lei , Chenyang Liu , Wenxiu Sun

Cloud cover and nighttime conditions remain significant limitations in satellite-based remote sensing, often restricting the availability and usability of multi-spectral imagery. In contrast, Sentinel-1 radar images are unaffected by cloud…

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High-definition (HD) maps are evolving from pre-annotated to real-time construction to better support autonomous driving in diverse scenarios. However, this process is hindered by low-quality input data caused by onboard sensors limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Bingyuan Huang , Guanyi Zhao , Qian Xu , Yang Lou , Yung-Hui Li , Jianping Wang

Pansharpening under thin cloudy conditions is a practically significant yet rarely addressed task, challenged by simultaneous spatial resolution degradation and cloud-induced spectral distortions. Existing methods often address cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Songcheng Du , Yang Zou , Jiaxin Li , Mingxuan Liu , Ying Li , Changjing Shang , Qiang Shen

We present GeoSynth, a model for synthesizing satellite images with global style and image-driven layout control. The global style control is via textual prompts or geographic location. These enable the specification of scene semantics or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Srikumar Sastry , Subash Khanal , Aayush Dhakal , Nathan Jacobs

In this paper, we propose a method for cloud removal from visible light RGB satellite images by extending the conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs) from RGB images to multispectral images. Satellite images have been widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Kenji Enomoto , Ken Sakurada , Weimin Wang , Hiroshi Fukui , Masashi Matsuoka , Ryosuke Nakamura , Nobuo Kawaguchi

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

Visual grouping -- operationalized through tasks such as instance segmentation, visual grounding, and object detection -- enables applications ranging from robotic perception to photo editing. These fundamental problems in computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Weikai Huang , Jieyu Zhang , Taoyang Jia , Chenhao Zheng , Ziqi Gao , Jae Sung Park , Winson Han , Ranjay Krishna