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Planar object tracking is an actively studied problem in vision-based robotic applications. While several benchmarks have been constructed for evaluating state-of-the-art algorithms, there is a lack of video sequences captured in the wild…
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Earth observation satellites have been continuously monitoring the earth environment for years at different locations and spectral bands with different modalities. Due to complex satellite sensing conditions (e.g., weather, cloud,…
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Monitoring forest dynamics at an individual tree scale is essential for accurately assessing ecosystem responses to climate change, yet traditional methods relying on field-based forest inventories are labor-intensive and limited in spatial…
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