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Nowcasting (or short-term weather forecasting) is particularly important in the case of extreme events as it helps prevent human losses. Many of our activities, however, also depend on the weather. Therefore, nowcasting has shown to be…

Accurate rainfall forecasting is crucial for effective disaster preparedness and mitigation in the North-East region of India, which is prone to extreme weather events such as floods and landslides. In this study, we investigated the use of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Paleti Nikhil Chowdary , Sathvika P , Pranav U , Rohan S , Sowmya V , Gopalakrishnan E A , Dhanya M

This paper presents a novel vehicle motion forecasting method based on multi-head attention. It produces joint forecasts for all vehicles on a road scene as sequences of multi-modal probability density functions of their positions. Its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Jean Mercat , Thomas Gilles , Nicole El Zoghby , Guillaume Sandou , Dominique Beauvois , Guillermo Pita Gil

Reconstructing high-resolution rainfall fields is essential for flood forecasting, hydrological modeling, and climate analysis. However, existing spatial interpolation methods-whether based on automatic weather station (AWS) measurements or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Lin Chen , Jun Chen , Minghui Qiu , Shuxin Zhong , Binghong Chen , Kaishun Wu

The inherent intermittency and high-frequency variability of solar irradiance, particularly during rapid cloud advection, present significant stability challenges to high-penetration photovoltaic grids. Although multimodal forecasting has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Penghui Niu , Taotao Cai , Suqi Zhang , Junhua Gu , Ping Zhang , Qiqi Liu , Jianxin Li

Precipitation is dependent on a myriad of atmospheric conditions. In this paper, we study how certain atmospheric parameters impact the occurrence of rainfall. We propose a data-driven, machine-learning based methodology to detect…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2018-05-08 Shilpa Manandhar , Soumyabrata Dev , Yee Hui Lee , Yu Song Meng , Stefan Winkler

The accuracy and explainability of data-driven nowcasting models are of great importance in many socio-economic sectors reliant on weather-dependent decision making. This paper proposes a novel architecture called Small Attention Residual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Mathieu Renault , Siamak Mehrkanoon

Importance of monsoon rainfall cannot be ignored as it affects round the year activities ranging from agriculture to industrial. Accurate rainfall estimation and prediction is very helpful in decision making in the sectors of water resource…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Vikas Bajpai , Anukriti Bansal

Current global precipitation estimates from spaceborne precipitation radars are limited by their sensitivity to light and frozen precipitation, leading to systematic underestimation of precipitation at high latitudes. Because passive…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Simon Pfreundschuh , Christian D. Kummerow

Quality analysis of weather forecasts is an essential topic in meteorology. Although traditional score-based evaluation metrics can quantify certain forecast errors, they are still far from meteorological experts in terms of descriptive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Xuming He , Zhiyuan You , Junchao Gong , Couhua Liu , Xiaoyu Yue , Peiqin Zhuang , Wenlong Zhang , Lei Bai

Natural disasters cause devastating damage to communities and infrastructure every year. Effective disaster response is hampered by the difficulty of accessing affected areas during and after events. Remote sensing has allowed us to monitor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Shreelekha Revankar , Utkarsh Mall , Cheng Perng Phoo , Kavita Bala , Bharath Hariharan

Motion forecasting plays a significant role in various domains (e.g., autonomous driving, human-robot interaction), which aims to predict future motion sequences given a set of historical observations. However, the observed elements may be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Jiachen Li , Fan Yang , Hengbo Ma , Srikanth Malla , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Chiho Choi

LiDAR-based 3D object detection models have traditionally struggled under rainy conditions due to the degraded and noisy scanning signals. Previous research has attempted to address this by simulating the noise from rain to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Xun Huang , Hai Wu , Xin Li , Xiaoliang Fan , Chenglu Wen , Cheng Wang

In this paper we present our methods for the MediaEval 2019 Mul-timedia Satellite Task, which is aiming to extract complementaryinformation associated with adverse events from Social Media andsatellites. For the first challenge, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Kashif Ahmad , Konstantin Pogorelov , Mohib Ullah , Michael Riegler , Nicola Conci , Johannes Langguth , Ala Al-Fuqaha

Recent advances in 4D imaging radar have enabled robust perception in adverse weather, while camera sensors provide dense semantic information. Fusing the these complementary modalities has great potential for cost-effective 3D perception.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Xiaozhi Li , Huijun Di , Jian Li , Feng Liu , Wei Liang

Effective environmental planning and management to address climate change could be achieved through extensive environmental modeling with machine learning and conventional physical models. In order to develop and improve these models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Muhammed Sit , Bong-Chul Seo , Ibrahim Demir

Diffusion models have been widely adopted in image generation, producing higher-quality and more diverse samples than generative adversarial networks (GANs). We introduce a latent diffusion model (LDM) for precipitation nowcasting -…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-04-26 Jussi Leinonen , Ulrich Hamann , Daniele Nerini , Urs Germann , Gabriele Franch

Weather forecasting supports critical socioeconomic activities and complements environmental protection, yet operational Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) systems remain computationally intensive, thus being inefficient for certain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Nikolas Stavrou , Siamak Mehrkanoon

Occluded and long-range objects are ubiquitous and challenging for 3D object detection. Point cloud sequence data provide unique opportunities to improve such cases, as an occluded or distant object can be observed from different viewpoints…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Yingwei Li , Charles R. Qi , Yin Zhou , Chenxi Liu , Dragomir Anguelov

Accurate weather and climate modeling is critical for both scientific advancement and safeguarding communities against environmental risks. Traditional approaches rely heavily on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models, which simulate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Muhammad Akhtar Munir , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Salman Khan