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This paper presents a Multi-Elevation Semantic Segmentation Image (MESSI) dataset comprising 2525 images taken by a drone flying over dense urban environments. MESSI is unique in two main features. First, it contains images from various…

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Accurate mapping of agricultural field boundaries is crucial for enhancing outcomes like precision agriculture, crop monitoring, and yield estimation. However, extracting these boundaries from satellite images is challenging, especially for…

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Monitoring construction progress is crucial yet resource-intensive, prompting the exploration of computer-vision-based methodologies for enhanced efficiency and scalability. Traditional data acquisition methods, primarily focusing on indoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Sri Ramana Saketh Vasanthawada , Pengkun Liu , Pingbo Tang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are used successfully in many application areas such as military, security, monitoring, emergency aid, tourism, agriculture, and forestry. This study aims to automatically count trees in designated areas on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Musa Ataş , Ayhan Talay

The segmentation of individual trees from forest point clouds is a crucial task for downstream analyses such as carbon sequestration estimation. Recently, deep-learning-based methods have been proposed which show the potential of learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Jonathan Henrich , Jan van Delden

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a recently developed large model for general-purpose segmentation for computer vision tasks. SAM was trained using 11 million images with over 1 billion masks and can produce segmentation results for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Yizhe Zhang , Tao Zhou , Shuo Wang , Peixian Liang , Danny Z. Chen

Automating visual inspection for capturing defects based on civil structures appearance is crucial due to its currently labour-intensive and time-consuming nature. An important aspect of automated inspection is image acquisition, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Zehao Ye , Lucy Lovell , Asaad Faramarzi , Jelena Ninic

Powered by the advances of optical remote sensing sensors, the production of very high spatial resolution multispectral images provides great potential for achieving cost-efficient and high-accuracy forest inventory and analysis in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Juepeng Zheng , Shuai Yuan , Weijia Li , Haohuan Fu , Le Yu

Accurate mapping of individual trees is an important component for precision agriculture in orchards, as it allows autonomous robots to perform tasks like targeted operations or individual tree monitoring. However, creating these maps is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-17 David Rapado-Rincon , Gert Kootstra

This paper presents an autonomous approach to tree detection and segmentation in high resolution airborne LiDAR that utilises state-of-the-art region-based CNN and 3D-CNN deep learning algorithms. If the number of training examples for a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Lloyd Windrim , Mitch Bryson

In recent years, the geospatial industry has been developing at a steady pace. This growth implies the addition of satellite constellations that produce a copious supply of satellite imagery and other Remote Sensing data on a daily basis.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Alexandru Munteanu , Marian Neagul

Urban forests play a key role in enhancing environmental quality and supporting biodiversity in cities. Mapping and monitoring these green spaces are crucial for urban planning and conservation, yet accurately detecting trees is challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Alessandro dos Santos Ferreira , Ana Paula Marques Ramos , José Marcato Junior , Wesley Nunes Gonçalves

Recently segment anything model (SAM) has shown powerful segmentation capability and has drawn great attention in computer vision fields. Massive following works have developed various applications based on the pre-trained SAM and achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Han Shu , Wenshuo Li , Yehui Tang , Yiman Zhang , Yihao Chen , Houqiang Li , Yunhe Wang , Xinghao Chen

Tree species classification plays an important role in nature conservation, forest inventories, forest management, and the protection of endangered species. Over the past four decades, remote sensing technologies have been extensively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Colverd Grace , Schade Laura , Takami Jumpei , Bot Karol , Gallego Joseph

Forest inventories rely on accurate measurements of the diameter at breast height (DBH) for ecological monitoring, resource management, and carbon accounting. While LiDAR-based techniques can achieve centimeter-level precision, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Siming He , Zachary Osman , Fernando Cladera , Dexter Ong , Nitant Rai , Patrick Corey Green , Vijay Kumar , Pratik Chaudhari

Tree instance segmentation of airborne laser scanning (ALS) data is of utmost importance for forest monitoring, but remains challenging due to variations in the data caused by factors such as sensor resolution, vegetation state at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Swann Emilien Céleste Destouches , Jesse Lahaye , Laurent Valentin Jospin , Jan Skaloud

We aim to develop a robust yet flexible visual foundation model for Earth observation. It should possess strong capabilities in recognizing and localizing diverse visual targets while providing compatibility with various input-output…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Liang Yao , Fan Liu , Delong Chen , Chuanyi Zhang , Yijun Wang , Ziyun Chen , Wei Xu , Shimin Di , Yuhui Zheng

Tree perception is an essential building block toward autonomous forestry operations. Current developments generally consider input data from lidar sensors to solve forest navigation, tree detection and diameter estimation problems. Whereas…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Vincent Grondin , Jean-Michel Fortin , François Pomerleau , Philippe Giguère

In this paper we propose a supervised learning system for counting and localizing palm trees in high-resolution, panchromatic satellite imagery (40cm/pixel to 1.5m/pixel). A convolutional neural network classifier trained on a set of palm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Eu Koon Cheang , Teik Koon Cheang , Yong Haur Tay

Accurate image segmentation is crucial in reservoir modelling and material characterization, enhancing oil and gas extraction efficiency through detailed reservoir models. This precision offers insights into rock properties, advancing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Zhaoyang Ma , Xupeng He , Shuyu Sun , Bicheng Yan , Hyung Kwak , Jun Gao