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We have used an existing, robotic, multi-lens, all-sky camera system, coupled to a dedicated data reduction pipeline, to automatically determine orbital parameters of satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Each of the fixed cameras has a…

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Accurate and timely hyperlocal weather predictions are essential for various applications, ranging from agriculture to disaster management. In this paper, we propose a novel approach that combines hyperlocal weather prediction and anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Anita B. Agarwal , Rohit Rajesh , Nitin Arul

Cloud removal is a relevant topic in Remote Sensing as it fosters the usability of high-resolution optical images for Earth monitoring and study. Related techniques have been analyzed for years with a progressively clearer view of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Alessandro Sebastianelli , Artur Nowakowski , Erika Puglisi , Maria Pia Del Rosso , Jamila Mifdal , Fiora Pirri , Pierre Philippe Mathieu , Silvia Liberata Ullo

Optically observing and monitoring moving objects, both natural and artificial, is important to human space security. Non-sidereal tracking can improve the system's limiting magnitude for moving objects, which benefits the surveillance.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-05 Lei Wang , Xiaoming Zhang , Chunhai Bai , Haiwen Xie , Juan Li , Jiayi Ge , Jianfeng Wang , Xianqun Zeng , Jiantao Sun , Xiaojun Jiang

Nighttime UAV tracking faces significant challenges in real-world robotics operations. Low-light conditions not only limit visual perception capabilities, but cluttered backgrounds and frequent viewpoint changes also cause existing trackers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Xuzhao Li , Xuchen Li , Shiyu Hu

Cloud cover plays a critical role in weather prediction and impacts several sectors, including agriculture, solar power generation, and aviation. Despite advancements in numerical weather prediction (NWP) models, forecasting total cloud…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Mikko Partio , Leila Hieta , Anniina Kokkonen

Interacting with the environment, such as object detection and tracking, is a crucial ability of mobile robots. Besides high accuracy, efficiency in terms of processing effort and energy consumption are also desirable. To satisfy both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Xuesong Li , Jose Guivant

Point cloud prediction is an important yet challenging task in the field of autonomous driving. The goal is to predict future point cloud sequences that maintain object structures while accurately representing their temporal motion. These…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Kaustab Pal , Aditya Sharma , Avinash Sharma , K. Madhava Krishna

Landslide monitoring is essential for understanding geohazards and mitigating associated risks. Existing point cloud-based methods, however, typically rely on either geometric or radiometric information and often yield sparse or non-3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Zhaoyi Wang , Jemil Avers Butt , Shengyu Huang , Tomislav Medic , Andreas Wieser

LiDAR-based 3D sensors provide point clouds, a canonical 3D representation used in various scene understanding tasks. Modern LiDARs face key challenges in several real-world scenarios, such as long-distance or low-albedo objects, producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Bhavya Goyal , Felipe Gutierrez-Barragan , Wei Lin , Andreas Velten , Yin Li , Mohit Gupta

The rapid proliferation of drones requires balancing innovation with regulation. To address security and privacy concerns, techniques for drone detection have attracted significant attention.Passive solutions, such as frame camera-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Kuan Dai , Hongxin Zhang , Sheng Zhong , Yi Zhou

The Oort cloud is presumably a pristine relic of the Solar System formation. Detection of the Oort cloud may provide information regarding the stellar environment in which the Sun was born and on the planetesimal population during the outer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-05 Eran O. Ofek , Sarah A. Spitzer , Guy Nir

Image-based fiducial markers are useful in problems such as object tracking in cluttered or textureless environments, camera (and multi-sensor) calibration tasks, and vision-based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Jiunn-Kai Huang , Shoutian Wang , Maani Ghaffari , Jessy W. Grizzle

This study proposes an anomaly detection method based on the Transformer architecture with integrated multiscale feature perception, aiming to address the limitations of temporal modeling and scale-aware feature representation in cloud…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Lian Lian , Yilin Li , Song Han , Renzi Meng , Sibo Wang , Ming Wang

We suggest the procedure of building the maps of noctilucent clouds (NLC) zonal and meridional velocity, mean altitude and particle size based on three-color photometry by identical all-sky RGB-cameras separated by 115 km in a…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-12-15 Oleg S. Ugolnikov

There has been great progress in improving numerical weather prediction and climate models using machine learning. However, most global models act at a kilometer-scale, making it challenging to model individual clouds and factors such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Jacob Lin , Edward Gryspeerdt , Ronald Clark

Cloud Optical Thickness (COT) is a critical cloud property influencing Earth's climate, weather, and radiation budget. Satellite radiance measurements enable global COT retrieval, but challenges like 3D cloud effects, viewing angles, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Zahid Hassan Tushar , Adeleke Ademakinwa , Jianwu Wang , Zhibo Zhang , Sanjay Purushotham

Obstacle detection is one of the basic tasks of a robot movement in an unknown environment. The use of a LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) sensor allows one to obtain a point cloud in the vicinity of the sensor. After processing this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Lukas Kratochvila

As invisibility cloaking has recently become experimental reality, it is interesting to explore ways to reveal remaining imperfections. In essence, the idea of most invisibility cloaks is to recover the optical path lengths without an…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-30 Jad C. Halimeh , Martin Wegener

3D object detection is a central task for applications such as autonomous driving, in which the system needs to localize and classify surrounding traffic agents, even in the presence of adverse weather. In this paper, we address the problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Martin Hahner , Christos Sakaridis , Mario Bijelic , Felix Heide , Fisher Yu , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool