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Rainfall estimation through the analysis of its impact on electromagnetic waves has sparked increasing interest in the research community. Recent studies have delved into its effects on cellular network performance, demonstrating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Christian Giannetti

Real-time high-resolution wind predictions are beneficial for various applications including safe manned and unmanned aviation. Current weather models require too much compute and lack the necessary predictive capabilities as they are valid…

Most deraining works focus on rain streaks removal but they cannot deal adequately with heavy rain images. In heavy rain, streaks are strongly visible, dense rain accumulation or rain veiling effect significantly washes out the image,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Ruotent Li , Loong Fah Cheong , Robby T. Tan

Climate change has increased the severity and frequency of weather disasters all around the world. Flood inundation mapping based on earth observation data can help in this context, by providing cheap and accurate maps depicting the area…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Kevin Iselborn , Marco Stricker , Takashi Miyamoto , Marlon Nuske , Andreas Dengel

Weather radar data synthesis can fill in data for areas where ground observations are missing. Existing methods often employ reconstruction-based approaches with MSE loss to reconstruct radar data from satellite observation. However, such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Xuming He , Zhiwang Zhou , Wenlong Zhang , Xiangyu Zhao , Hao Chen , Shiqi Chen , Lei Bai

Remote sensing composed image retrieval (RSCIR) enables search in large satellite image archives using composed queries that combine a reference image with a textual modifier. Although RSCIR offers a flexible interface for expressing…

High-resolution rainfall estimates from satellite and reanalysis sources (SRE) could play a major role in improving climate services for agriculture. This is particularly relevant in regions that rely on rain-fed farming but lack a dense…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Danny Parsons , David Stern , Denis Ndanguza , Mouhamadou Bamba Sylla , James Musyoka , John Bagiliko , Graham Clarkson , Peter Dorward

Earth System Models (ESM) are our main tool for projecting the impacts of climate change. However, running these models at sufficient resolution for local-scale risk-assessments is not computationally feasible. Deep learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Paula Harder , Luca Schmidt , Francis Pelletier , Nicole Ludwig , Matthew Chantry , Christian Lessig , Alex Hernandez-Garcia , David Rolnick

Sensor degradation poses a significant challenge in autonomous driving. During heavy rainfall, the interference from raindrops can adversely affect the quality of LiDAR point clouds, resulting in, for instance, inaccurate point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Abu Mohammed Raisuddin , Jesper Holmblad , Hamed Haghighi , Yuri Poledna , Maikol Funk Drechsler , Valentina Donzella , Eren Erdal Aksoy

This paper presents a solution to the Weather4Cast 2023 competition, where the goal is to forecast high-resolution precipitation with an 8-hour lead time using lower-resolution satellite radiance images. We propose a simple, yet effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Rafael Pablos Sarabia , Joachim Nyborg , Morten Birk , Ira Assent

Accurately tracking the global distribution and evolution of precipitation is essential for both research and operational meteorology. Satellite observations remain the only means of achieving consistent, global-scale precipitation…

To alleviate the adverse effect of rain streaks in image processing tasks, CNN-based single image rain removal methods have been recently proposed. However, the performance of these deep learning methods largely relies on the covering range…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-20 Hong Wang , Yichen Wu , Qi Xie , Qian Zhao , Yong Liang , Deyu Meng

Foundational feed-forward visual geometry models enable accurate and efficient camera pose estimation and scene reconstruction by learning strong scene priors from massive RGB datasets. However, their effectiveness drops when applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Vsevolod Skorokhodov , Chenghao Xu , Shuo Sun , Olga Fink , Malcolm Mielle

As a common weather, rain streaks adversely degrade the image quality. Hence, removing rains from an image has become an important issue in the field. To handle such an ill-posed single image deraining task, in this paper, we specifically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-27 Hong Wang , Qi Xie , Qian Zhao , Yuexiang Li , Yong Liang , Yefeng Zheng , Deyu Meng

This paper presents a solution to the Weather4cast 2022 Challenge Stage 2. The goal of the challenge is to forecast future high-resolution rainfall events obtained from ground radar using low-resolution multiband satellite images. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Jinyoung Park , Minseok Son , Seungju Cho , Inyoung Lee , Changick Kim

The development of large-scale 3D scene reconstruction and novel view synthesis methods mostly rely on datasets comprising perspective images with narrow fields of view (FoV). While effective for small-scale scenes, these datasets require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Ulas Gunes , Matias Turkulainen , Xuqian Ren , Arno Solin , Juho Kannala , Esa Rahtu

We introduce RaidaR, a rich annotated image dataset of rainy street scenes, to support autonomous driving research. The new dataset contains the largest number of rainy images (58,542) to date, 5,000 of which provide semantic segmentations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Jiongchao Jin , Arezou Fatemi , Wallace Lira , Fenggen Yu , Biao Leng , Rui Ma , Ali Mahdavi-Amiri , Hao Zhang

The formation of precipitation in state-of-the-art weather and climate models is an important process. The understanding of its relationship with other variables can lead to endless benefits, particularly for the world's monsoon regions…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Manmeet Singh , Bipin Kumar , Suryachandra Rao , Sukhpal Singh Gill , Rajib Chattopadhyay , Ravi S Nanjundiah , Dev Niyogi

Remote Sensing (RS) is a crucial technology for observing, monitoring, and interpreting our planet, with broad applications across geoscience, economics, humanitarian fields, etc. While artificial intelligence (AI), particularly deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Aoran Xiao , Weihao Xuan , Junjue Wang , Jiaxing Huang , Dacheng Tao , Shijian Lu , Naoto Yokoya

To improve the robustness to rain, we present a physically-based rain rendering pipeline for realistically inserting rain into clear weather images. Our rendering relies on a physical particle simulator, an estimation of the scene lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Shirsendu Sukanta Halder , Jean-François Lalonde , Raoul de Charette