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Self-supervised learning (SSL) has demonstrated significant potential in pre-training robust models with limited labeled data, making it particularly valuable for remote sensing (RS) tasks. A common assumption is that pre-training on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Saad Lahrichi , Zion Sheng , Shufan Xia , Kyle Bradbury , Jordan Malof

Quantitative remote sensing inversion aims to estimate continuous surface variables-such as biomass, vegetation indices, and evapotranspiration-from satellite observations, supporting applications in ecosystem monitoring, carbon accounting,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zhenyu Yu , Mohd Yamani Idna Idris , Hua Wang , Pei Wang , Junyi Chen , Kun Wang

Remote Sensing Vision-Language Models (RS VLMs) have made much progress in the tasks of remote sensing (RS) image comprehension. While performing well in multi-modal reasoning and multi-turn conversations, the existing models lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Xu Liu , Zhouhui Lian

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has attracted much interest in remote sensing and earth observation due to its ability to learn task-agnostic representations without human annotation. While most of the existing SSL works in remote sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Yi Wang , Conrad M Albrecht , Xiao Xiang Zhu

By mapping sites at large scales using remotely sensed data, archaeologists can generate unique insights into long-term demographic trends, inter-regional social networks, and past adaptations to climate change. Remote sensing surveys…

Remote sensing images are useful for a wide variety of planet monitoring applications, from tracking deforestation to tackling illegal fishing. The Earth is extremely diverse -- the amount of potential tasks in remote sensing images is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Favyen Bastani , Piper Wolters , Ritwik Gupta , Joe Ferdinando , Aniruddha Kembhavi

Many current deep learning approaches make extensive use of backbone networks pre-trained on large datasets like ImageNet, which are then fine-tuned to perform a certain task. In remote sensing, the lack of comparable large annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Konrad Heidler , Lichao Mou , Di Hu , Pu Jin , Guangyao Li , Chuang Gan , Ji-Rong Wen , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Foundation models have reshaped the landscape of Remote Sensing (RS) by enhancing various image interpretation tasks. Pretraining is an active research topic, encompassing supervised and self-supervised learning methods to initialize model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Di Wang , Jing Zhang , Minqiang Xu , Lin Liu , Dongsheng Wang , Erzhong Gao , Chengxi Han , Haonan Guo , Bo Du , Dacheng Tao , Liangpei Zhang

Large-scale foundation models (FMs) in remote sensing (RS) are developed based on the paradigms established in computer vision (CV) and have shown promise for various Earth observation applications. However, the direct transfer of scaling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Leonard Hackel , Tom Burgert , Begüm Demir

With Transformers achieving outstanding performance on individual remote sensing (RS) tasks, we are now approaching the realization of a unified model that excels across multiple tasks through multi-task learning (MTL). Compared to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Qingyun Li , Shuran Ma , Junwei Luo , Yi Yu , Yue Zhou , Fengxiang Wang , Xudong Lu , Xiaoxing Wang , Xin He , Yushi Chen , Xue Yang

The multimodal language models (MLMs) based on generative pre-trained Transformer are considered powerful candidates for unifying various domains and tasks. MLMs developed for remote sensing (RS) have demonstrated outstanding performance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Qingyun Li , Yushi Chen , Xinya Shu , Dong Chen , Xin He , Yi Yu , Xue Yang

Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods based on Siamese networks learn visual representations by aligning different views of the same image. The multi-crop strategy, which incorporates small local crops to global ones, enhances many SSL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Pierre-François De Plaen , Abhishek Jha , Luc Van Gool , Tinne Tuytelaars , Marc Proesmans

A robust Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) for Earth Observation should maintain consistent interpretation and reasoning under realistic input variations. However, current Remote Sensing MLLMs fail to meet this requirement. Trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Rui Min , Liang Yao , Shiyu Miao , Shengxiang Xu , Yuxuan Liu , Chuanyi Zhang , Shimin Di , Fan Liu

We investigate the utility of in-domain self-supervised pre-training of vision models in the analysis of remote sensing imagery. Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising approach for remote sensing image classification due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Ivica Dimitrovski , Ivan Kitanovski , Nikola Simidjievski , Dragi Kocev

Semi-supervised semantic segmentation (S4) has advanced remote sensing (RS) analysis by leveraging unlabeled data through pseudo-labeling and consistency learning. However, existing S4 studies often rely on small-scale datasets and models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Liang Lv , Di Wang , Jing Zhang , Lefei Zhang

Remote sensing foundation models largely break away from the traditional paradigm of designing task-specific models, offering greater scalability across multiple tasks. However, they face challenges such as low computational efficiency and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Huiyang Hu , Peijin Wang , Hanbo Bi , Boyuan Tong , Zhaozhi Wang , Wenhui Diao , Hao Chang , Yingchao Feng , Ziqi Zhang , Yaowei Wang , Qixiang Ye , Kun Fu , Xian Sun

The advancement of RS technology has enabled high-resolution Earth observation; however, interpreting these images using modern VFMs remains a significant challenge. Unlike object-centric natural images, RS imagery is fundamentally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Keyan Chen , Chenyang Liu , Bowen Chen , Wenyuan Li , Zhengxia Zou , Shijian Lu , Zhenwei Shi

In the medical domain, acquiring large datasets poses significant challenges due to privacy concerns. Nonetheless, the development of a robust deep-learning model for retinal disease diagnosis necessitates a substantial dataset for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Fatema-E- Jannat , Sina Gholami , Jennifer I. Lim , Theodore Leng , Minhaj Nur Alam , Hamed Tabkhi

Remote sensing imagery has attracted significant attention in recent years due to its instrumental role in global environmental monitoring, land usage monitoring, and more. As image databases grow each year, performing automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jielu Zhang , Zhongliang Zhou , Gengchen Mai , Mengxuan Hu , Zihan Guan , Sheng Li , Lan Mu

Interactive image segmentation(IIS) plays a critical role in generating precise annotations for remote sensing imagery, where objects often exhibit scale variations, irregular boundaries and complex backgrounds. However, existing IIS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Deliang Wang , Peng Liu , Yan Ma , Rongkai Zhuang , Lajiao Chen , Bing Li , Yi Zeng