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The absolute depth values of surrounding environments provide crucial cues for various assistive technologies, such as localization, navigation, and 3D structure estimation. We propose that accurate depth estimated from panoramic images can…

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Numerical modeling of the intensity and evolution of flood events are affected by multiple sources of uncertainty such as precipitation and land surface conditions. To quantify and curb these uncertainties, an ensemble-based simulation and…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-02-17 Junyu Wei , Xiangyu Luo , Weihong Liao , Xiaohui Lei , Jianshi Zhao , Haocheng Huang , Hao Wang

Hydrodynamic flood modeling improves hydrologic and hydraulic prediction of storm events. However, the computationally intensive numerical solutions required for high-resolution hydrodynamics have historically prevented their implementation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Francisco Haces-Garcia , Natalya Maslennikova , Craig L Glennie , Hanadi S Rifai , Vedhus Hoskere , Nima Ekhtari

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) has attracted increasing interest in the past few years, owing to its important role in 3D vision. MDE is the estimation of a depth map from a monocular image/video to represent the 3D structure of a scene,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Shuai Li , Huibin Bai , Yanbo Gao , Chong Lv , Hui Yuan , Chuankun Li , Wei Hua , Tian Xie

Modern cameras are equipped with a wide array of sensors that enable recording the geospatial context of an image. Taking advantage of this, we explore depth estimation under the assumption that the camera is geocalibrated, a problem we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Scott Workman , Hunter Blanton

Urban flooding in arid regions poses severe risks to infrastructure and communities. Accurate, fine-scale mapping of flood extents and recovery trajectories is therefore essential for improving emergency response and resilience planning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Xin Hong , Longchao Da , Hua Wei

Flooding is the world's most costly type of natural disaster in terms of both economic losses and human causalities. A first and essential procedure towards flood monitoring is based on identifying the area most vulnerable to flooding,…

Semantic segmentation is a fundamental task for agricultural robots to understand the surrounding environments in natural orchards. The recent development of the LiDAR techniques enables the robot to acquire accurate range measurements of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Hanwen Kang , Xing Wang

Landslide monitoring is essential for understanding geohazards and mitigating associated risks. Existing point cloud-based methods, however, typically rely on either geometric or radiometric information and often yield sparse or non-3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Zhaoyi Wang , Jemil Avers Butt , Shengyu Huang , Tomislav Medic , Andreas Wieser

This study introduces a novel dataset for segmenting flooded areas in satellite images. After reviewing 77 existing benchmarks utilizing satellite imagery, we identified a shortage of suitable datasets for this specific task. To fill this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Youngsun Jang , Dongyoun Kim , Chulwoo Pack , Kwanghee Won

As a fundamental task in computer vision, semantic segmentation is widely applied in fields such as autonomous driving, remote sensing image analysis, and medical image processing. In recent years, Transformer-based segmentation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Tai An , Weiqiang Huang , Da Xu , Qingyuan He , Jiacheng Hu , Yujia Lou

Online augmentation of an oblique aerial image sequence with structural information is an essential aspect in the process of 3D scene interpretation and analysis. One key aspect in this is the efficient dense image matching and depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Boitumelo Ruf , Thomas Pollok , Martin Weinmann

This paper presents \textit{TopoFormer}, a novel hybrid deep learning architecture that integrates transformer-based encoders with convolutional long short-term memory (ConvLSTM) layers for the precise prediction of topographic beach…

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Open-vocabulary panoptic reconstruction is essential for advanced robotics perception and simulation. However, existing methods based on 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) often struggle to simultaneously achieve geometric accuracy, coherent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xuan Yu , Yuxuan Xie , Changjian Jiang , Shichao Zhai , Rong Xiong , Yu Zhang , Yue Wang

Where are the Earth's streams flowing right now? Inland surface waters expand with floods and contract with droughts, so there is no one map of our streams. Current satellite approaches are limited to monthly observations that map only the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Dolores Garcia , Gonzalo Mateo-Garcia , Hannes Bernhardt , Ron Hagensieker , Ignacio G. Lopez Francos , Jonathan Stock , Guy Schumann , Kevin Dobbs , Freddie Kalaitzis

Most previous works of outdoor instance segmentation for images only use color information. We explore a novel direction of sensor fusion to exploit stereo cameras. Geometric information from disparities helps separate overlapping objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Cho-Ying Wu , Xiaoyan Hu , Michael Happold , Qiangeng Xu , Ulrich Neumann

Modern 3D semantic instance segmentation approaches predominantly rely on specialized voting mechanisms followed by carefully designed geometric clustering techniques. Building on the successes of recent Transformer-based methods for object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Jonas Schult , Francis Engelmann , Alexander Hermans , Or Litany , Siyu Tang , Bastian Leibe

In daily life and industrial production, it is crucial to accurately detect changes in liquid level in containers. Traditional contact measurement methods have some limitations, while emerging non-contact image processing technology shows…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Yukun Ma , Zikun Mao

We present an advanced algorithm for the determination of watershed lines on Digital Elevation Models (DEMs), which is based on the iterative application of Invasion Percolation (IIP). The main advantage of our method over previosly…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-09-16 E. Fehr , J. S. Andrade , S. D. da Cunha , L. R. da Silva , H. J. Herrmann , D. Kadau , C. F. Moukarzel , E. A. Oliveira

We address the problem of reconstructing 3D surfaces from depth and surface normal maps acquired by a sensor system based on a single perspective camera. Depth and normal maps can be obtained through techniques such as structured-light…

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