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Long-term monitoring and exploration of extreme environments, such as underwater storage facilities, is costly, labor-intensive, and hazardous. Automating this process with low-cost, collaborative robots can greatly improve efficiency.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Shuang Chen , Yifeng He , Barry Lennox , Farshad Arvin , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei

To better understand scene images in the field of remote sensing, multi-label annotation of scene images is necessary. Moreover, to enhance the performance of deep learning models for dealing with semantic scene understanding tasks, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Xiaoman Qi , PanPan Zhu , Yuebin Wang , Liqiang Zhang , Junhuan Peng , Mengfan Wu , Jialong Chen , Xudong Zhao , Ning Zang , P. Takis Mathiopoulos

Object detection and instance segmentation in remote sensing images is a fundamental and challenging task, due to the complexity of scenes and targets. The latest methods tried to take into account both the efficiency and the accuracy of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Zhenhang Huang , Shihao Sun , Ruirui Li

Remote Sensing (RS) data encapsulates rich multi-dimensional information essential for Earth observation. Its vast volume, diverse sources, and temporal continuity make it particularly well-suited for developing large Visual Foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Xuyang Li , Chenyu Li , Gemine Vivone , Danfeng Hong

The absence of publicly available, large-scale, high-quality datasets for Synthetic Aperture Radar Automatic Target Recognition (SAR ATR) has significantly hindered the application of rapidly advancing deep learning techniques, which hold…

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Tracking multiple moving objects in real-time in a dynamic threat environment is an important element in national security and surveillance system. It helps pinpoint and distinguish potential candidates posing threats from other normal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Imtiaz Ahmed , Mikyoung Jun , Yu Ding

Surface water dynamics play a critical role in Earth's climate system, influencing ecosystems, agriculture, disaster resilience, and sustainable development. Yet monitoring rivers and surface water at fine spatial and temporal scales…

The rapid advancement of foundation models has revolutionized visual representation learning in a self-supervised manner. However, their application in remote sensing (RS) remains constrained by a fundamental gap: existing models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Hanbo Bi , Yingchao Feng , Boyuan Tong , Mengyu Wang , Haichen Yu , Yongqiang Mao , Hao Chang , Wenhui Diao , Peijin Wang , Yue Yu , Hanyang Peng , Yehong Zhang , Kun Fu , Xian Sun

In marine surveillance, applications span military and civilian domains, including ship detection, marine traffic control, and disaster management. Optical and hyperspectral satellites are key for this purpose. This paper focuses on ship…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-16 Alyazia Al Shamsi , Alavikunhu Panthakkan , Saeed Al Mansoori , Hussain Al Ahmad

In this paper, we introduce a challenging global large-scale ship database (called GLSD), designed specifically for ship detection tasks. The designed GLSD database includes a total of 212,357 annotated instances from 152,576 images. Based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Zhenfeng Shao , Jiaming Wang , Lianbing Deng , Xiao Huang , Tao Lu , Fang Luo , Ruiqian Zhang , Xianwei Lv , Chaoya Dang , Qing Ding , Zhiqiang Wang

Multimodal remote sensing data, acquired from diverse sensors, offer a comprehensive and integrated perspective of the Earth's surface. Leveraging multimodal fusion techniques, semantic segmentation enables detailed and accurate analysis of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Xianping Ma , Xiaokang Zhang , Man-On Pun , Bo Huang

As a powerful all-weather Earth observation tool, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote sensing enables critical military reconnaissance, maritime surveillance, and infrastructure monitoring. Although Vision language models (VLMs) have made…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Zhiming Ma , Xiayang Xiao , Sihao Dong , Peidong Wang , HaiPeng Wang , Qingyun Pan

Accurate detection and segmentation of marine debris is important for keeping the water bodies clean. This paper presents a novel dataset for marine debris segmentation collected using a Forward Looking Sonar (FLS). The dataset consists of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Deepak Singh , Matias Valdenegro-Toro

Multimodal remote sensing technology significantly enhances the understanding of surface semantics by integrating heterogeneous data such as optical images, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), and Digital Surface Models (DSM). However, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Tong Wang , Xiaodong Zhang , Guanzhou Chen , Jiaqi Wang , Chenxi Liu , Xiaoliang Tan , Wenchao Guo , Xuyang Li , Xuanrui Wang , Zifan Wang

Ship detection has been playing a significant role in the field of remote sensing for a long time but it is still full of challenges. The main limitations of traditional ship detection methods usually lie in the complexity of application…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Xue Yang , Hao Sun , Kun Fu , Jirui Yang , Xian Sun , Menglong Yan , Zhi Guo

Underwater robotic vision encounters significant challenges, necessitating advanced solutions to enhance performance and adaptability. This paper presents MARS (Multi-Scale Adaptive Robotics Vision), a novel approach to underwater object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Lyes Saad Saoud , Lakmal Seneviratne , Irfan Hussain

Remote sensing (RS) image-text retrieval faces significant challenges in real-world datasets due to the presence of Pseudo-Matched Pairs (PMPs), semantically mismatched or weakly aligned image-text pairs, which hinder the learning of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Pengxiang Ouyang , Qing Ma , Zheng Wang , Cong Bai

Accurate, detailed, and regularly updated bathymetry, coupled with complex semantic content, is essential for under-mapped shallow-water environments facing increasing climatological and anthropogenic pressures. However, existing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Panagiotis Agrafiotis , Begüm Demir

Maritime environmental sensing requires overcoming challenges from complex conditions such as harsh weather, platform perturbations, large dynamic objects, and the requirement for long detection ranges. While cameras and LiDAR are commonly…