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Earth observation (EO), aiming at monitoring the state of planet Earth using remote sensing data, is critical for improving our daily lives and living environment. With a growing number of satellites in orbit, an increasing number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Zhitong Xiong , Fahong Zhang , Yi Wang , Yilei Shi , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Despite the unprecedented volume of multimodal data provided by modern Earth observation systems, our ability to model atmospheric dynamics remains constrained. Traditional modeling frameworks force heterogeneous measurements into…

LiDAR perception is fundamental to robotics, enabling machines to understand their environment in 3D. A crucial task for LiDAR-based scene understanding and navigation is ground segmentation. However, existing methods are either handcrafted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Ted Lentsch , Santiago Montiel-Marín , Holger Caesar , Dariu M. Gavrila

Foundation Models (FMs) are large-scale, pre-trained artificial intelligence (AI) systems that have revolutionized natural language processing and computer vision, and are now advancing geospatial analysis and Earth Observation (EO). They…

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Foundational mapping remains a challenge in many parts of the world, particularly in dynamic scenarios such as natural disasters when timely updates are critical. Updating maps is currently a highly manual process requiring a large number…

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Accurate wetland mapping is essential for ecosystem monitoring, yet dense pixel-level annotation is prohibitively expensive and practical applications usually rely on sparse point labels, under which existing deep learning models perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Shuai Yuan , Tianwu Lin , Shuang Chen , Yu Xia , Peng Qin , Xiangyu Liu , Xiaoqing Xu , Nan Xu , Hongsheng Zhang , Jie Wang , Peng Gong

Geospatial foundation models compress multispectral observations into dense embeddings increasingly used in natural-language environmental reasoning systems. A single planetary-scale model, e.g. Google AlphaEarth, handles broad…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Mashrekur Rahman

Recent advances in the field of network embedding have shown the low-dimensional network representation is playing a critical role in network analysis. However, most of the existing principles of network embedding do not incorporate…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Junliang Guo , Linli Xu , Xunpeng Huang , Enhong Chen

Earth observation (EO) foundation models have emerged as an effective approach to derive latent representations of the Earth system from various remote sensing sensors. These models produce embeddings that can be used as analysis-ready…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Julia Peters , Karin Mora , Miguel D. Mahecha , Chaonan Ji , David Montero , Clemens Mosig , Guido Kraemer

Recent generative AI models have achieved remarkable breakthroughs in language and visual understanding. However, although these models can generate realistic visual content, their spatial scale remains confined to bounded environments,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jinqi Cao , Zhiping Yu , Baihong Lin , Chenyang Liu , Zhenwei Shi , Zhengxia Zou

Data assimilation of observational data into full atmospheric states is essential for weather forecast model initialization. Recently, methods for deep generative data assimilation have been proposed which allow for using new input data…

Precise aerial radio environment characterization is vital for low-altitude planning. However, existing datasets and estimation methods lack the high-resolution granularity required for complex aerial spaces. Additionally, current schemes…

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High-quality digital terrain models derived from airborne laser scanning (ALS) data are essential for a wide range of geospatial analyses, and their generation typically relies on robust ground filtering (GF) to separate point clouds across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Nannan Qin , Pengjie Tao , Haiyan Guan , Zhizhong Kang , Lingfei Ma , Xiangyun Hu , Jonathan Li

Spatial grounding, the process of associating natural language expressions with corresponding image regions, has rapidly advanced due to the introduction of transformer-based models, significantly enhancing multimodal representation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Ijazul Haq , Muhammad Saqib , Yingjie Zhang

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

Foundation models offer an exciting new paradigm for constructing models with out-of-the-box embeddings and a few labeled examples. However, it is not clear how to best apply foundation models without labeled data. A potential approach is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-02 Mayee F. Chen , Daniel Y. Fu , Dyah Adila , Michael Zhang , Frederic Sala , Kayvon Fatahalian , Christopher Ré

With the enhancement of remote sensing image resolution and the rapid advancement of deep learning, land cover mapping is transitioning from pixel-level segmentation to object-based vector modeling. This shift demands more from deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Yu Meng , Ligao Deng , Zhihao Xi , Jiansheng Chen , Jingbo Chen , Anzhi Yue , Diyou Liu , Kai Li , Chenhao Wang , Kaiyu Li , Yupeng Deng , Xian Sun

The development of semi-supervised learning techniques is essential to enhance the generalization capacities of machine learning algorithms. Indeed, raw image data are abundant while labels are scarce, therefore it is crucial to leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Javiera Castillo-Navarro , Bertrand Le Saux , Alexandre Boulch , Nicolas Audebert , Sébastien Lefèvre

While the Earth observation community has witnessed a surge in high-impact foundation models and global Earth embedding datasets, a significant barrier remains in translating these academic assets into freely accessible tools. This tutorial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Yijie Zheng , Weijie Wu , Bingyue Wu , Long Zhao , Guoqing Li , Mikolaj Czerkawski , Konstantin Klemmer

Deep learning models are increasingly data-hungry, requiring significant resources to collect and compile the datasets needed to train them, with Earth Observation (EO) models being no exception. However, the landscape of datasets in EO is…

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