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Recently deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved tremendous success for object detection in overhead (e.g., satellite) imagery. One ongoing challenge however is the acquisition of training data, due to high costs of obtaining satellite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Yang Xu , Bohao Huang , Xiong Luo , Kyle Bradbury , Jordan M. Malof

Many remote sensing applications employ masking of pixels in satellite imagery for subsequent measurements. For example, estimating water quality variables, such as Suspended Sediment Concentration (SSC) requires isolating pixels depicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Rangel Daroya , Luisa Vieira Lucchese , Travis Simmons , Punwath Prum , Tamlin Pavelsky , John Gardner , Colin J. Gleason , Subhransu Maji

With the rapid progress of controllable generation, training data synthesis has become a promising way to expand labeled datasets and alleviate manual annotation in remote sensing (RS). However, the complexity of semantic mask control and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yunkai Yang , Yudong Zhang , Kunquan Zhang , Jinxiao Zhang , Xinying Chen , Haohuan Fu , Runmin Dong

Multiresolution image fusion is a key problem for real-time satellite imaging and plays a central role in detecting and monitoring natural phenomena such as floods. It aims to solve the trade-off between temporal and spatial resolution in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Haoqing Li , Ricardo Borsoi , Tales Imbiriba , Pau Closas

In this paper we propose a mask-conditional synthetic image generation model for creating synthetic satellite imagery datasets. Given a dataset of real high-resolution images and accompanying land cover masks, we show that it is possible to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Van Anh Le , Varshini Reddy , Zixi Chen , Mengyuan Li , Xinran Tang , Anthony Ortiz , Simone Fobi Nsutezo , Caleb Robinson

Image deraining plays a pivotal role in low-level computer vision, serving as a prerequisite for robust outdoor surveillance and autonomous driving systems. While deep learning paradigms have achieved remarkable success in firmly aligned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Kangbo Zhao , Miaoxin Guan , Xiang Chen , Yukai Shi , Jinshan Pan

Pretraining robust vision or multimodal foundation models (e.g., CLIP) relies on large-scale datasets that may be noisy, potentially misaligned, and have long-tail distributions. Previous works have shown promising results in augmenting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Qingqing Cao , Mahyar Najibi , Sachin Mehta

We present a novel framework for synthesizing patient data with complex covariates (e.g., eye scans) paired with longitudinal observations (e.g., visual acuity over time), addressing privacy concerns in healthcare research. Our approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Simon Deltadahl , Andreu Vall , Vijay Ivaturi , Niklas Korsbo

Cloud-based overlays are often present in optical remote sensing images, thus limiting the application of acquired data. Removing clouds is an indispensable pre-processing step in remote sensing image analysis. Deep learning has achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Daoyu Lin , Guangluan Xu , Xiaoke Wang , Yang Wang , Xian Sun , Kun Fu

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

Cloud removal is a significant and challenging problem in remote sensing, and in recent years, there have been notable advancements in this area. However, two major issues remain hindering the development of cloud removal: the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Fang Xu , Yilei Shi , Patrick Ebel , Wen Yang , Xiao Xiang Zhu

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,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Rahul Deshmukh , Avinash Kak

The availability of large-scale datasets has helped unleash the true potential of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, for the single-image denoising problem, capturing a real dataset is an unacceptably expensive and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-18 Syed Waqas Zamir , Aditya Arora , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Ling Shao

We present a simple nearest-neighbor (NN) approach that synthesizes high-frequency photorealistic images from an "incomplete" signal such as a low-resolution image, a surface normal map, or edges. Current state-of-the-art deep generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Aayush Bansal , Yaser Sheikh , Deva Ramanan

One major impediment in rapidly deploying object detection models for industrial applications is the lack of large annotated datasets. We currently have presented the Sacked Carton Dataset(SCD) that contains carton images from three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Lijun Gou , Shengkai Wu , Jinrong Yang , Hangcheng Yu , Chenxi Lin , Xiaoping Li , Chao Deng

In the emerging commercial space industry there is a drastic increase in access to low cost satellite imagery. The price for satellite images depends on the sensor quality and revisit rate. This work proposes to bridge the gap between image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Saksham Jain , R Venkatesh Babu , Anirban Chakraborty

Recently deep learning - namely convolutional neural networks (CNNs) - have yielded impressive performance for the task of building segmentation on large overhead (e.g., satellite) imagery benchmarks. However, these benchmark datasets only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Fanjie Kong , Bohao Huang , Kyle Bradbury , Jordan M. Malof

Satellite imaging has a central role in monitoring, detecting and estimating the intensity of key natural phenomena. One important feature of satellite images is the trade-off between spatial/spectral resolution and their revisiting time, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-28 Haoqing Li , Bhavia Duvviri , Ricardo Borsoi , Tales Imbiriba , Edward Beighley , Deniz Erdogmus , Pau Closas

Novel deep-learning (DL) architectures have reached a level where they can generate digital media, including photorealistic images, that are difficult to distinguish from real data. These technologies have already been used to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Tuong Vy Nguyen , Alexander Glaser , Felix Biessmann

Drone detection has benefited from improvements in deep neural networks, but like many other applications, suffers from the availability of accurate data for training. Synthetic data provides a potential for low-cost data generation and has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Mariusz Wisniewski , Zeeshan A. Rana , Ivan Petrunin , Alan Holt , Stephen Harman