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Learning transferable multimodal embeddings for urban environments is challenging because urban understanding is inherently spatial, yet existing datasets and benchmarks lack explicit alignment between street-view images and urban…

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Incorporating spatial information, particularly those influenced by climate, weather, and demographic factors, is crucial for improving underwriting precision and enhancing risk management in insurance. However, spatial data are often…

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Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is crucial for robust mobile robot localization, yet it faces significant challenges in maintaining reliable performance under varying environmental conditions and viewpoints. To address this, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Haiyang Jiang , Songhao Piao , Chao Gao , Lei Yu , Liguo Chen

Worldwide visual geo-localization aims to determine the geographic location of an image anywhere on Earth using only its visual content. Despite recent progress, learning expressive representations of geographic space remains challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Angel Daruna , Nicholas Meegan , Han-Pang Chiu , Supun Samarasekera , Rakesh Kumar

Classifying geospatial imagery remains a major bottleneck for applications such as disaster response and land-use monitoring-particularly in regions where annotated data is scarce or unavailable. Existing tools (e.g., RS-CLIP) that claim…

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Earth observation satellites have been continuously monitoring the earth environment for years at different locations and spectral bands with different modalities. Due to complex satellite sensing conditions (e.g., weather, cloud,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Bo Peng , Hongchen Liu , Hang Zhou , Yuchuan Gou , Jui-Hsin Lai

Foundation models constitute a significant advancement in computer vision: after a single, albeit costly, training phase, they can address a wide array of tasks. In the field of Earth observation, over 75 remote sensing vision foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Pierre Adorni , Minh-Tan Pham , Stéphane May , Sébastien Lefèvre

This paper aims to investigate representation learning for large scale visual place recognition, which consists of determining the location depicted in a query image by referring to a database of reference images. This is a challenging task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Amar Ali-bey , Brahim Chaib-draa , Philippe Giguère

The proposed method extends upon the representational output of semantic instance segmentation by explicitly including both visible and occluded parts. A fully convolutional network is trained to produce consistent pixel-level embedding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Yanfeng Liu , Eric Psota , Lance Pérez

The third Pixel-level Video Understanding in the Wild (PVUW CVPR 2024) challenge aims to advance the state of art in video understanding through benchmarking Video Panoptic Segmentation (VPS) and Video Semantic Segmentation (VSS) on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Qingfeng Liu , Mostafa El-Khamy , Kee-Bong Song

Continuous space-time video super-resolution (C-STVSR) has garnered increasing interest for its capability to reconstruct high-resolution and high-frame-rate videos at arbitrary spatial and temporal scales. However, prevailing methods often…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Shuoyan Wei , Feng Li , Shengeng Tang , Runmin Cong , Yao Zhao , Meng Wang , Huihui Bai

Geospatial foundation models increasingly expose pixel-level embedding products that can be downloaded and reused without access to the underlying encoder. In this setting, downstream tasks with patch- or region-level labels require a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Isaac Corley , Caleb Robinson , Inbal Becker-Reshef , Juan M. Lavista Ferres

The goal of Feature Selection - comprising filter, wrapper, and embedded approaches - is to find the optimal feature subset for designated downstream tasks. Nevertheless, current feature selection methods are limited by: 1) the selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Meng Xiao , Dongjie Wang , Min Wu , Pengfei Wang , Yuanchun Zhou , Yanjie Fu

High-quality labeled geospatial datasets are essential for extracting insights and understanding our planet. Unfortunately, these datasets often do not span the entire globe and are limited to certain geographic regions where data was…

In this paper, we propose a spectral framework that embeds 1D and 2D quasiperiodic Helmholtz eigenvalue problems into higher-dimensional (2D and 4D) periodic spaces via the projection method \cite{jiang2014numerical, jiang2024numerical}. To…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Teng-Chao Sun , Tiexiang Li , Wen-Wei Lin , Xing-Long Lyu

Super-Resolution (SR) is a critical task in computer vision, focusing on reconstructing high-resolution (HR) images from low-resolution (LR) inputs. The field has seen significant progress through various challenges, particularly in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-02 Babak Naderi , Ross Cutler , Juhee Cho , Nabakumar Khongbantabam , Dejan Ivkovic

We present the DeepGlobe 2018 Satellite Image Understanding Challenge, which includes three public competitions for segmentation, detection, and classification tasks on satellite images. Similar to other challenges in computer vision domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Ilke Demir , Krzysztof Koperski , David Lindenbaum , Guan Pang , Jing Huang , Saikat Basu , Forest Hughes , Devis Tuia , Ramesh Raskar

Land use and land cover mapping from Earth Observation (EO) data is a critical tool for sustainable land and resource management. While advanced machine learning and deep learning algorithms excel at analyzing EO imagery data, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Babak Ghassemi , Cassio Fraga-Dantas , Raffaele Gaetano , Dino Ienco , Omid Ghorbanzadeh , Emma Izquierdo-Verdiguier , Francesco Vuolo

Modern Earth observation (EO) increasingly leverages deep learning to harness the scale and diversity of satellite imagery across sensors and regions. While recent foundation models have demonstrated promising generalization across EO…

In contrast to regular (simple) networks, hyper networks possess the ability to depict more complex relationships among nodes and store extensive information. Such networks are commonly found in real-world applications, such as in social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Shu Liu , Cameron Lai , Fujio Toriumi