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Remote sensing lightweight foundation models have achieved notable success in online perception within remote sensing. However, their capabilities are restricted to performing online inference solely based on their own observations and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Zhechao Wang , Peirui Cheng , Pengju Tian , Yuchao Wang , Mingxin Chen , Shujing Duan , Zhirui Wang , Xinming Li , Xian Sun

Segment anything model (SAM) has demonstrated excellent generalizability in common vision scenarios, yet falling short of the ability to understand specialized data. Recently, several methods have combined parameter-efficient techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Yiran Song , Qianyu Zhou , Xuequan Lu , Zhiwen Shao , Lizhuang Ma

This paper introduces a holistic vision-language foundation model tailored for remote sensing, named Falcon. Falcon offers a unified, prompt-based paradigm that effectively executes comprehensive and complex remote sensing tasks. Falcon…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Kelu Yao , Nuo Xu , Rong Yang , Yingying Xu , Zhuoyan Gao , Titinunt Kitrungrotsakul , Yi Ren , Pu Zhang , Jin Wang , Ning Wei , Chao Li

Foundation models have advanced machine learning across various modalities, including images. Recently multiple teams trained foundation models specialized for remote sensing applications. This line of research is motivated by the distinct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Ani Vanyan , Alvard Barseghyan , Hakob Tamazyan , Tigran Galstyan , Vahan Huroyan , Naira Hovakimyan , Hrant Khachatrian

Semantic segmentation of remote sensing images plays a vital role in a wide range of Earth Observation applications, such as land use land cover mapping, environment monitoring, and sustainable development. Driven by rapid developments in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Libo Wang , Sijun Dong , Ying Chen , Xiaoliang Meng , Shenghui Fang , Songlin Fei

The diversity and complementarity of sensors available for Earth Observations (EO) calls for developing bespoke self-supervised multimodal learning approaches. However, current multimodal EO datasets and models typically focus on a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Guillaume Astruc , Nicolas Gonthier , Clement Mallet , Loic Landrieu

Large-scale foundation models have become the mainstream deep learning method, while in civil engineering, the scale of AI models is strictly limited. In this work, a vision foundation model is introduced for crack segmentation. Two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Kang Ge , Chen Wang , Yutao Guo , Yansong Tang , Zhenzhong Hu , Hongbing Chen

Point cloud segmentation is central to autonomous driving and 3D scene understanding. While voxel- and point-based methods dominate recent research due to their compatibility with deep architectures and ability to capture fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Paul Julius Kühn , Duc Anh Nguyen , Arjan Kuijper , Saptarshi Neil Sinha

This paper assesses trending AI foundation models, especially emerging computer vision foundation models and their performance in natural landscape feature segmentation. While the term foundation model has quickly garnered interest from the…

Earth observation (EO) in open-world settings presents a unique challenge: different applications rely on diverse sensor modalities, each with varying ground sampling distances, spectral ranges, and numbers of spectral bands. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Zhitong Xiong , Yi Wang , Fahong Zhang , Adam J. Stewart , Joëlle Hanna , Damian Borth , Ioannis Papoutsis , Bertrand Le Saux , Gustau Camps-Valls , Xiao Xiang Zhu

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

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

Object extraction and segmentation from remote sensing (RS) images is a critical yet challenging task in urban environment monitoring. Urban morphology is inherently complex, with irregular objects of diverse shapes and varying scales.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Chenyu Li , Danfeng Hong , Bing Zhang , Yuxuan Li , Gustau Camps-Valls , Xiao Xiang Zhu , Jocelyn Chanussot

Remote sensing image (RSI) interpretation typically faces challenges due to the scarcity of labeled data, which limits the performance of RSI interpretation tasks. To tackle this challenge, we propose EarthSynth, a diffusion-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Jiancheng Pan , Shiye Lei , Yuqian Fu , Jiahao Li , Yanxing Liu , Yuze Sun , Xiao He , Long Peng , Xiaomeng Huang , Bo Zhao

Change detection, as an important and widely applied technique in the field of remote sensing, aims to analyze changes in surface areas over time and has broad applications in areas such as environmental monitoring, urban development, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Zihan Yu , Tianxiao Li , Yuxin Zhu , Rongze Pan

The success of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) demonstrates the significance of data-centric machine learning. However, due to the difficulties and high costs associated with annotating Remote Sensing (RS) images, a large amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Di Wang , Jing Zhang , Bo Du , Minqiang Xu , Lin Liu , Dacheng Tao , Liangpei Zhang

Accurate robot segmentation is a fundamental capability for robotic perception. It enables precise visual servoing for VLA systems, scalable robot-centric data augmentation, accurate real-to-sim transfer, and reliable safety monitoring in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Haiyang Mei , Qiming Huang , Hai Ci , Mike Zheng Shou

In computer vision, object detection is an important task that finds its application in many scenarios. However, obtaining extensive labels can be challenging, especially in crowded scenes. Recently, the Segment Anything Model (SAM) has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Zhi Cai , Yingjie Gao , Yaoyan Zheng , Nan Zhou , Di Huang

Large foundation models (FMs) are transforming Earth science by integrating heterogeneous multimodal data, such as multi-platform imagery, gridded reanalysis data, diverse geophysical and geochemical observations, and domain-specific text,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-14 Xiangyu Zhao , Bo Liu , Yuehan Zhang , Zelin Song , Wanghan Xu , Feng Liu , Fengxiang Wang , Ben Fei , Fenghua Ling , Wangxu Wei , Wenlong Zhang , Xiao-Ming Wu

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