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Deep learning algorithms have recently achieved promising deraining performances on both the natural and synthetic rainy datasets. As an essential low-level pre-processing stage, a deraining network should clear the rain streaks and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Shen Zheng , Changjie Lu , Yuxiong Wu , Gaurav Gupta

Shadow removal is an essential task in computer vision and computer graphics. Recent shadow removal approaches all train convolutional neural networks (CNN) on real paired shadow/shadow-free or shadow/shadow-free/mask image datasets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Naoto Inoue , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Deep learning methods have been successfully applied to remote sensing problems for several years. Among these methods, CNN based models have high accuracy in solving the land classification problem using satellite or aerial images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Mehmet Cagri Aksoy , Beril Sirmacek , Cem Unsalan

Clouds play a key role in regulating climate change but are difficult to simulate within Earth system models (ESMs). Improving the representation of clouds is one of the key tasks towards more robust climate change projections. This study…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 A. Kaps , A. Lauer , G. Camps-Valls , P. Gentine , L. Gómez-Chova , V. Eyring

Meteorologists use shapes and movements of clouds in satellite images as indicators of several major types of severe storms. Satellite imaginary data are in increasingly higher resolution, both spatially and temporally, making it impossible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Xinye Zheng , Jianbo Ye , Yukun Chen , Stephen Wistar , Jia Li , Jose A. Piedra-Fernández , Michael A. Steinberg , James Z. Wang

Supervised deep learning for land cover semantic segmentation (LCS) relies on labeled satellite data. However, most existing Sentinel-2 datasets are cloud-free, which limits their usefulness in tropical regions where clouds are common. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Sara Mobsite , Renaud Hostache , Laure Berti Equille , Emmanuel Roux , Joris Guerin

For monitoring the night sky conditions, wide-angle all-sky cameras are used in most astronomical observatories to monitor the sky cloudiness. In this manuscript, we apply a deep-learning approach for automating the identification of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-25 Mohammad H. Zhoolideh Haghighi , Alireza Ghasrimanesh , Habib Khosroshahi

3D LiDAR point cloud data is crucial for scene perception in computer vision, robotics, and autonomous driving. Geometric and semantic scene understanding, involving 3D point clouds, is essential for advancing autonomous driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Li Li

Accurate monsoon rainfall prediction is vital for India's agriculture, water management, and climate risk planning, yet remains challenging due to sparse ground observations and complex regional variability. We present a multimodal deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Swaib Ilias Mazumder , Manish Kumar , Aparajita Khan

Clouds and haze often occlude optical satellite images, hindering continuous, dense monitoring of the Earth's surface. Although modern deep learning methods can implicitly learn to ignore such occlusions, explicit cloud removal as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Patrick Ebel , Vivien Sainte Fare Garnot , Michael Schmitt , Jan Dirk Wegner , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Methane (CH$_4$) is the second most powerful greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide and plays a crucial role in climate change due to its high global warming potential. Accurately modeling CH$_4$ fluxes across the globe and at fine temporal…

Change detection (CD) is a fundamental and important task for monitoring the land surface dynamics in the earth observation field. Existing deep learning-based CD methods typically extract bi-temporal image features using a weight-sharing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Haonan Guo , Xin Su , Chen Wu , Bo Du , Liangpei Zhang

Shadows are a prevalent problem in remote sensing imagery (RSI), degrading visual quality and severely limiting the performance of downstream tasks like object detection and semantic segmentation. Most prior works treat shadow detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Zi-Yang Bo , Wei Lu , Hongruixuan Chen , Si-Bao Chen , Bin Luo

Due to the high cost of annotating accurate pixel-level labels, semi-supervised learning has emerged as a promising approach for cloud detection. In this paper, we propose CloudMatch, a semi-supervised framework that effectively leverages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Jiayi Zhao , Changlu Chen , Jingsheng Li , Tianxiang Xue , Kun Zhan

The advent of satellite-borne machine learning hardware accelerators has enabled the on-board processing of payload data using machine learning techniques such as convolutional neural networks (CNN). A notable example is using a CNN to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Andrew Du , Anh-Dzung Doan , Yee Wei Law , Tat-Jun Chin

Cloud detection plays a very important role in the process of remote sensing images. This paper designs a super-pixel level cloud detection method based on convolutional neural network (CNN) and deep forest. Firstly, remote sensing images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Han Liu , Dan Zeng , Qi Tian

Shadows significantly hinder computer vision tasks in outdoor environments, particularly in field robotics, where varying lighting conditions complicate object detection and localisation. We present FieldNet, a novel deep learning framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Alzayat Saleh , Alex Olsen , Jake Wood , Bronson Philippa , Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi

The study and prediction of space weather entails the analysis of solar images showing structures of the Sun's atmosphere. When imaged from the Earth's ground, images may be polluted by terrestrial clouds which hinder the detection of solar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Amal Chaoui , Jay Paul Morgan , Adeline Paiement , Jean Aboudarham

Google Earth Engine (GEE) provides a convenient platform for applications based on optical satellite imagery of large areas. With such data sets, the detection of cloud is often a necessary prerequisite step. Recently, deep learning-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-02 Zhixiang Yin , Feng Ling , Giles M. Foody , Xinyan Li , Yun Du

Reducing methane emissions is essential for mitigating global warming. To attribute methane emissions to their sources, a comprehensive dataset of methane source infrastructure is necessary. Recent advancements with deep learning on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Bryan Zhu , Nicholas Lui , Jeremy Irvin , Jimmy Le , Sahil Tadwalkar , Chenghao Wang , Zutao Ouyang , Frankie Y. Liu , Andrew Y. Ng , Robert B. Jackson