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The scarcity of high-quality residential load data can pose obstacles for decarbonizing the residential sector as well as effective grid planning and operation. The above challenges have motivated research into generating synthetic load…

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Soil moisture is a critical variable for managing irrigation, improving crop yield, and understanding field-scale hydrology. Radars mounted on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offer a promising means to monitor soil moisture over large…

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We consider in this paper a new intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided LEO satellite communication system, by utilizing the controllable phase shifts of massive passive reflecting elements to achieve flexible beamforming, which copes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Beixiong Zheng , Shaoe Lin , Rui Zhang

Machine Learning, particularly Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), has revolutionised Super-Resolution (SR). However, generated images often lack physical meaningfulness, which is essential for scientific applications. Our approach,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-13 Md Rakibul Hasan , Pouria Behnoudfar , Dan MacKinlay , Thomas Poulet

Spectral images captured by satellites and radio-telescopes are analyzed to obtain information about geological compositions distributions, distant asters as well as undersea terrain. Spectral images usually contain tens to hundreds of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Siyu Chen , Danping Liao , Yuntao Qian

Semantic segmentation of satellite imagery is a common approach to identify patterns and detect changes around the planet. Most of the state-of-the-art semantic segmentation models are trained in a fully supervised way using Convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Aditya Kulkarni , Tharun Mohandoss , Daniel Northrup , Ernest Mwebaze , Hamed Alemohammad

The investigation of leaf-level traits in response to varying environmental conditions has immense importance for understanding plant ecology. Remote sensing technology enables measurement of the reflectance of plants to make inferences…

Applications · Statistics 2022-10-04 Philip A. White , Michael F. Christensen , Henry Frye , Alan E. Gelfand , John A. Silander

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are an unsupervised generative model that learns data distribution through adversarial training. However, recent experiments indicated that GANs are difficult to train due to the requirement of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Wenliang Qian , Yang Xu , Wangmeng Zuo , Hui Li

Soil texture is a foundational attribute that governs water availability and erosion in agriculture, as well as load bearing capacity, deformation response, and shrink-swell risk in geotechnical engineering. Yet texture is still typically…

The integration of non-terrestrial networks (NTNs), which include high altitude platform (HAP) stations and intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) into communication infrastructures has become a crucial area of research to address the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Shunyuan Shang , Emna Zedini , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Visible (VIS) imagery is important for monitoring Tropical Cyclones (TCs) but is unavailable at night. This study presents a Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (CGAN) model to generate nighttime VIS imagery with significantly…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 Jinghuai Yao , Puyuan Du , Yucheng Zhao , Yubo Wang

In the context of Earth observation, change detection boils down to comparing images acquired at different times by sensors of possibly different spatial and/or spectral resolutions or different modalities (e.g., optical or radar). Even…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-30 Jin-Ju Wang , Nicolas Dobigeon , Marie Chabert , Ding-Cheng Wang , Ting-Zhu Huang , Jie Huang

Utility and privacy are two crucial measurements of the quality of synthetic tabular data. While significant advancements have been made in privacy measures, generating synthetic samples with high utility remains challenging. To enhance the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Oriel Perets , Nadav Rappoport

Accurate detection and analysis of traces of persistent organic pollutants in water is important in many areas, including environmental monitoring and food quality control, due to their long environmental stability and potential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Vishnu Jayaprakash , Jae Bem You , Chiranjeevi Kanike , Jinfeng Liu , Christopher McCallum , Xuehua Zhang

We introduce a conditional Generative Adversarial Network (cGAN) approach to generate cloud reflectance fields (CRFs) conditioned on large scale meteorological variables such as sea surface temperature and relative humidity. We show that…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-04-16 Victor Schmidt , Mustafa Alghali , Kris Sankaran , Tianle Yuan , Yoshua Bengio

This dataset provides a large collection of 10,915 synthetic hyperspectral image cubes paired with pixel-level vegetation trait maps, designed to support research in radiative transfer emulation, vegetation trait retrieval, and uncertainty…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Chedly Ben Azizi , Claire Guilloteau , Gilles Roussel , Matthieu Puigt

Numerous applications have resulted from the automation of agricultural disease segmentation using deep learning techniques. However, when applied to new conditions, these applications frequently face the difficulty of overfitting,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Fatema Tuj Johora Faria , Mukaffi Bin Moin , Mohammad Shafiul Alam , Ahmed Al Wase , Md. Rabius Sani , Khan Md Hasib

State-of-the-art deep learning methods have shown a remarkable capacity to model complex data domains, but struggle with geospatial data. In this paper, we introduce SpaceGAN, a novel generative model for geospatial domains that learns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Konstantin Klemmer , Adriano Koshiyama , Sebastian Flennerhag

Magnetic Resonance (MR) imaging is a diagnostic tool used in modern medicine; however, its output can be affected by motion artefacts and may be limited by equipment. This research focuses on MRI image quality enhancement using two…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Muneeba Rashid , Hina Shakir , Humaira Mehwish , Asarim Amir , Reema Qaiser Khan

Access to below-canopy volumetric vegetation data is crucial for understanding ecosystem dynamics. We address the long-standing limitation of remote sensing to penetrate deep into dense canopy layers. LiDAR and radar are currently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Mohamed Youssef , Jian Peng , Oliver Bimber