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Remote sensing imagery has attracted significant attention in recent years due to its instrumental role in global environmental monitoring, land usage monitoring, and more. As image databases grow each year, performing automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jielu Zhang , Zhongliang Zhou , Gengchen Mai , Mengxuan Hu , Zihan Guan , Sheng Li , Lan Mu

Driving world models serve as a pivotal technology for autonomous driving by simulating environmental dynamics. However, existing approaches predominantly focus on future scene generation, often overlooking comprehensive 3D scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Xin Zhou , Dingkang Liang , Xiwu Chen , Feiyang Tan , Dingyuan Zhang , Hengshuang Zhao , Xiang Bai

Remote sensing change detection (RSCD) aims to localise changes between two images of the same geographic region. In practice, change masks often follow region-level annotation conventions rather than purely local appearance differences,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Blaž Rolih , Matic Fučka , Filip Wolf , Luka Čehovin Zajc

Forecasting future events is a fundamental capability for general-purpose systems that plan or act across different levels of abstraction. Yet, evaluating whether a forecast is "correct" remains challenging due to the inherent uncertainty…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jacob C Walker , Pedro Vélez , Luisa Polania Cabrera , Guangyao Zhou , Sayna Ebrahimi , Rishabh Kabra , Carl Doersch , Maks Ovsjanikov , João Carreira , Shiry Ginosar

Remote sensing projects typically generate large amounts of imagery that can be used to train powerful deep neural networks. However, the amount of labeled images is often small, as remote sensing applications generally require expert…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Maximilian Bernhard , Tanveer Hannan , Niklas Strauß , Matthias Schubert

Remote sensing understanding inherently requires multi-resolution observation, since different targets and application tasks demand different levels of spatial detail. While low-resolution (LR) imagery enables efficient global observation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zhenghao Xie , Jing Xiao , Zhenqi Wang , Kexin Ma , Liang Liao , Gui-Song Xia , Mi Wang

Compared with natural images, remote sensing images (RSIs) have the unique characteristic. i.e., larger intraclass variance, which makes semantic segmentation for remote sensing images more challenging. Moreover, existing semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Wei Zhang , Mengting Ma , Yizhen Jiang , Rongrong Lian , Zhenkai Wu , Kangning Cui , Xiaowen Ma

Traditional change detection identifies where changes occur, but does not explain what changed in natural language. Existing remote sensing change captioning datasets typically describe overall image-level differences, leaving fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Roie Kazoom , Yotam Gigi , George Leifman , Tomer Shekel , Genady Beryozkin

Applying machine learning models to meteorological data brings many opportunities to the Geosciences field, such as predicting future weather conditions more accurately. In recent years, modeling meteorological data with deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Rafaela Castro , Yania M. Souto , Eduardo Ogasawara , Fabio Porto , Eduardo Bezerra

Urban forecasting has increasingly benefited from high-dimensional spatial data through two primary approaches: graph-based methods that rely on predefined spatial structures, and region-based methods that focus on learning expressive urban…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Yuhao Jia , Zile Wu , Shengao Yi , Yifei Sun , Xiao Huang

Diffusion models have significantly mitigated the impact of annotated data scarcity in remote sensing (RS). Although recent approaches have successfully harnessed these models to enable diverse and controllable Layout-to-Image (L2I)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Xianbao Hou , Yonghao He , Zeyd Boukhers , John See , Hu Su , Wei Sui , Cong Yang

This paper proposes Relational Similarity Machines (RSM): a fast, accurate, and flexible relational learning framework for supervised and semi-supervised learning tasks. Despite the importance of relational learning, most existing methods…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-08-03 Ryan A. Rossi , Rong Zhou , Nesreen K. Ahmed

Foundation models have garnered increasing attention for representation learning in remote sensing. Many such foundation models adopt approaches that have demonstrated success in computer vision with minimal domain-specific modification.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Kevin Lane , Morteza Karimzadeh

We present UniModel, a unified generative model that jointly supports visual understanding and visual generation within a single pixel-to-pixel diffusion framework. Our goal is to achieve unification along three axes: the model, the tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Chi Zhang , Jiepeng Wang , Youming Wang , Yuanzhi Liang , Xiaoyan Yang , Zuoxin Li , Haibin Huang , Xuelong Li

World models have become a central paradigm for learning predictive simulators that support generation, planning, and decision-making. Yet, despite rapid progress in industry-scale interactive video generation, the broader research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Siqiao Huang , Partha Kaushik , Michael Chen , Hengkai Pan , Kaiwen Geng , Omar Chehab , Fernando Moreno-Pino , Max Simchowitz

Supervised deep learning models depend on massive labeled data. Unfortunately, it is time-consuming and labor-intensive to collect and annotate bitemporal samples containing desired changes. Transfer learning from pre-trained models is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Hao Chen , Wenyuan Li , Song Chen , Zhenwei Shi

End-to-end autonomous driving aims to generate safe and plausible planning policies from raw sensor input. Driving world models have shown great potential in learning rich representations by predicting the future evolution of a driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xingtai Gui , Meijie Zhang , Tianyi Yan , Wencheng Han , Jiahao Gong , Feiyang Tan , Cheng-zhong Xu , Jianbing Shen

Remote sensing image change captioning (RSICC) aims at generating human-like language to describe the semantic changes between bi-temporal remote sensing image pairs. It provides valuable insights into environmental dynamics and land…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Xiaofei Yu , Yitong Li , Jie Ma

Geometric information in the normalized digital surface models (nDSM) is highly correlated with the semantic class of the land cover. Exploiting two modalities (RGB and nDSM (height)) jointly has great potential to improve the segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Zhitong Xiong , Sining Chen , Yi Wang , Lichao Mou , Xiao Xiang Zhu

World models (WMs) are intended to serve as internal simulators of the real world that enable agents to understand, anticipate, and act upon complex environments. Existing WM benchmarks remain narrowly focused on next-state prediction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 PAN Team , Qiyue Gao , Kun Zhou , Jiannan Xiang , Zihan Liu , Dequan Yang , Junrong Chen , Arif Ahmad , Cong Zeng , Ganesh Bannur , Xinqi Huang , Zheqi Liu , Yi Gu , Yichi Yang , Guangyi Liu , Zhiting Hu , Zhengzhong Liu , Eric Xing