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Identification of fossil species is crucial to evolutionary studies. Recent advances from deep learning have shown promising prospects in fossil image identification. However, the quantity and quality of labeled fossil images are often…

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In this study, 0.5m high resolution satellite datasets over Indian urban region was used to demonstrate the applicability of deep learning models over Ahmedabad, India. Here, YOLOv7 instance segmentation model was trained on well curated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Jai G Singla , Gautam Jaiswal

Integrating machine learning (ML) with physical models (PM) has emerged as a promising way of retrieving geophysical parameters from remote sensing data. In this context, a ML model for estimating forest height from TanDEM-X interferometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Islam Mansour , Ronny Haensch , Irena Hajnsek , Konstantinos Papathanassiou

Taking the deep learning-based algorithms into account has become a crucial way to boost object detection performance in aerial images. While various neural network representations have been developed, previous works are still inefficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Chengyuan Li , Jun Liu , Hailong Hong , Wenju Mao , Chenjie Wang , Chudi Hu , Xin Su , Bin Luo

Regularly updated and accurate land cover maps are essential for monitoring 14 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Multispectral satellite imagery provide high-quality and valuable information at global scale that can be used to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Hamed Alemohammad , Kevin Booth

Change detection of high-resolution remote sensing images is an important task in earth observation and was extensively investigated. Recently, deep learning has shown to be very successful in plenty of remote sensing tasks. The current…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-25 Shuting Sun , Lin Mu , Lizhe Wang , Peng Liu

Cell phone coverage and high-speed service gaps persist in rural areas in sub-Saharan Africa, impacting public access to mobile-based financial, educational, and humanitarian services. Improving maps of telecommunications infrastructure can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Natasha Krell , Will Gleave , Daniel Nakada , Justin Downes , Amanda Willet , Matthew Baran

Accurate forest height estimation is crucial for climate change monitoring and carbon cycle assessment. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), particularly in multi-channel configurations, has provided support for a long time in 3D forest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Francesca Razzano , Wenyu Yang , Sergio Vitale , Giampaolo Ferraioli , Silvia Liberata Ullo , Gilda Schirinzi

Accurate assessment of fuel conditions is a prerequisite for fire ignition and behavior prediction, and risk management. The method proposed herein leverages diverse data sources including Landsat-8 optical imagery, Sentinel-1 (C-band)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Riyaaz Uddien Shaik , Mohamad Alipour , Eric Rowell , Bharathan Balaji , Adam Watts , Ertugrul Taciroglu

Forests are vital to ecosystems, supporting biodiversity and essential services, but are rapidly changing due to land use and climate change. Understanding and mitigating negative effects requires parsing data on forests at global scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Nikolaos Ioannis Bountos , Arthur Ouaknine , Ioannis Papoutsis , David Rolnick

In this paper we develop a deforestation detection pipeline that incorporates optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data. A crucial component of the pipeline is the construction of anomaly maps of the optical data, which is done using…

Segmentation of retinal layers from Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) volumes is a fundamental problem for any computer aided diagnostic algorithm development. This requires preprocessing steps such as denoising, region of interest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Karthik Gopinath , Samrudhdhi B Rangrej , Jayanthi Sivaswamy

This work investigates the use of deep fully convolutional neural networks (DFCNN) for pixel-wise scene labeling of Earth Observation images. Especially, we train a variant of the SegNet architecture on remote sensing data over an urban…

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Point clouds captured with laser scanning systems from forest environments can be utilized in a wide variety of applications within forestry and plant ecology, such as the estimation of tree stem attributes, leaf angle distribution, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Lassi Ruoppa , Oona Oinonen , Josef Taher , Matti Lehtomäki , Narges Takhtkeshha , Antero Kukko , Harri Kaartinen , Juha Hyyppä

In this report we propose a classification technique for skin lesion images as a part of our submission for ISIC 2018 Challenge in Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection. Our data was extracted from the ISIC 2018: Skin Lesion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Suhita Ray

Deep learning provides the opportunity to improve upon conflicting reports considering the relationship between the Amazon river's fish and dolphin abundance and reduced canopy cover as a result of deforestation. Current methods of fish and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Stefan Schneider , Alex Zhuang

In recent years, although U-Net network has made significant progress in the field of image segmentation, it still faces performance bottlenecks in remote sensing image segmentation. In this paper, we innovatively propose to introduce SimAM…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Qiming Yang , Zixin Wang , Shinan Liu , Zizheng Li

Foundation models characterized by extensive parameters and trained on large-scale datasets have demonstrated remarkable efficacy across various downstream tasks for remote sensing data. Current remote sensing foundation models typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Zhitong Xiong , Yi Wang , Fahong Zhang , Xiao Xiang Zhu

3D to 2D retinal vessel segmentation is a challenging problem in Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (OCTA) images. Accurate retinal vessel segmentation is important for the diagnosis and prevention of ophthalmic diseases. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-17 Zhuojie Wu , Zijian Wang , Wenxuan Zou , Fan Ji , Hao Dang , Wanting Zhou , Muyi Sun

Existing person re-identification benchmarks and methods mainly focus on matching cropped pedestrian images between queries and candidates. However, it is different from real-world scenarios where the annotations of pedestrian bounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-07 Tong Xiao , Shuang Li , Bochao Wang , Liang Lin , Xiaogang Wang