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Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and optical imagery provide complementary strengths that constitute the critical foundation for transcending single-modality constraints and facilitating cross-modal collaborative processing and intelligent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Peihao Wu , Yongxiang Yao , Yi Wan , Wenfei Zhang , Ruipeng Zhao , Jiayuan Li , Yongjun Zhang

Recent progress in self-supervision shows that pre-training large neural networks on vast amounts of unsupervised data can lead to impressive increases in generalisation for downstream tasks. Such models, recently coined as foundation…

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

Prior studies on Remote Sensing Foundation Model (RSFM) reveal immense potential towards a generic model for Earth Observation. Nevertheless, these works primarily focus on a single modality without temporal and geo-context modeling,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Xin Guo , Jiangwei Lao , Bo Dang , Yingying Zhang , Lei Yu , Lixiang Ru , Liheng Zhong , Ziyuan Huang , Kang Wu , Dingxiang Hu , Huimei He , Jian Wang , Jingdong Chen , Ming Yang , Yongjun Zhang , Yansheng Li

The advent of foundation models signals a new era in artificial intelligence. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is the first foundation model for image segmentation. In this study, we evaluate SAM's ability to segment features from eye…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Virmarie Maquiling , Sean Anthony Byrne , Diederick C. Niehorster , Marcus Nyström , Enkelejda Kasneci

Modern Earth observation (EO) increasingly leverages deep learning to harness the scale and diversity of satellite imagery across sensors and regions. While recent foundation models have demonstrated promising generalization across EO…

Deep learning models are increasingly data-hungry, requiring significant resources to collect and compile the datasets needed to train them, with Earth Observation (EO) models being no exception. However, the landscape of datasets in EO is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Alistair Francis , Mikolaj Czerkawski

The availability of large-scale remote sensing video data underscores the importance of high-quality interactive segmentation. However, challenges such as small object sizes, ambiguous features, and limited generalization make it difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Zhe Shan , Yang Liu , Lei Zhou , Cheng Yan , Heng Wang , Xia Xie

The intelligent interpretation of buildings plays a significant role in urban planning and management, macroeconomic analysis, population dynamics, etc. Remote sensing image building interpretation primarily encompasses building extraction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Mingze Wang , Lili Su , Cilin Yan , Sheng Xu , Pengcheng Yuan , Xiaolong Jiang , Baochang Zhang

Purpose: Automated ultrasound image analysis is challenging due to anatomical complexity and limited annotated data. To tackle this, we take a data-centric approach, assembling the largest public ultrasound segmentation dataset and training…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 Adrien Meyer , Aditya Murali , Farahdiba Zarin , Didier Mutter , Nicolas Padoy

Advances in Earth observation (EO) foundation models have unlocked the potential of big satellite data to learn generic representations from space, benefiting a wide range of downstream applications crucial to our planet. However, most…

Robotic perception in unstructured environments remains challenging despite the zero-shot capabilities of foundation models such as SAM. This work attributes performance degradation to non-uniform representation shifts across transformer…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Wenhui Chu

Foundation Models (FMs) are increasingly integrated into remote sensing (RS) pipelines. These models include unimodal vision encoders and multimodal architectures. FMs are adapted to diverse perception tasks, such as image classification,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Binger Chen , Tacettin Emre Bök , Behnood Rasti , Volker Markl , Begüm Demir

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies have profoundly transformed the field of remote sensing, revolutionizing data collection, processing, and analysis. Traditionally reliant on manual interpretation and task-specific models, remote…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Siqi Lu , Junlin Guo , James R Zimmer-Dauphinee , Jordan M Nieusma , Xiao Wang , Parker VanValkenburgh , Steven A Wernke , Yuankai Huo

Foundation models have excelled in various tasks but are often evaluated on general benchmarks. The adaptation of these models for specific domains, such as remote sensing imagery, remains an underexplored area. In remote sensing, precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Ali Mayladan , Hasan Nasrallah , Hasan Moughnieh , Mustafa Shukor , Ali J. Ghandour

The increasing accessibility of remotely sensed data and their potential to support large-scale decision-making have driven the development of deep learning models for many Earth Observation tasks. Traditionally, such models rely on large…

Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM) allow zero-shot or interactive segmentation of visual contents, thus they are quickly applied in a variety of visual scenes. However, their direct use in many Remote…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Lei Ding , Kun Zhu , Daifeng Peng , Hao Tang , Kuiwu Yang , Lorenzo Bruzzone

Segment Anything Model (SAM) is an advanced foundational model for image segmentation, which is gradually being applied to remote sensing images (RSIs). Due to the domain gap between RSIs and natural images, traditional methods typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Nanqing Liu , Xun Xu , Yongyi Su , Haojie Zhang , Heng-Chao Li

We introduce the Segment Anything (SA) project: a new task, model, and dataset for image segmentation. Using our efficient model in a data collection loop, we built the largest segmentation dataset to date (by far), with over 1 billion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Alexander Kirillov , Eric Mintun , Nikhila Ravi , Hanzi Mao , Chloe Rolland , Laura Gustafson , Tete Xiao , Spencer Whitehead , Alexander C. Berg , Wan-Yen Lo , Piotr Dollár , Ross Girshick

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