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20162026
most citedDetecting Mammals in UAV Images: Best Practices to address a substantially Imbalanced Dataset with Deep Learning

340 citations · 1.8k across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

cs.CL2026

A Geolocation-Aware Multimodal Approach for Ecological Prediction

Valerie Zermatten, Chiara Vanalli, Gencer Sumbul +2

While integrating multiple modalities has the potential to improve environmental monitoring, current approaches struggle to combine data sources with heterogeneous formats or conte…

cs.CV2025

EcoWikiRS: Learning Ecological Representation of Satellite Images from Weak Supervision with Species Observations and Wikipedia

Valerie Zermatten, Javiera Castillo-Navarro, Pallavi Jain +2

The presence of species provides key insights into the ecological properties of a location such as land cover, climatic conditions or even soil properties. We propose a method to p…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Multi-Scale Grouped Prototypes for Interpretable Semantic Segmentation

Hugo Porta, Emanuele Dalsasso, Diego Marcos +1

Prototypical part learning is emerging as a promising approach for making semantic segmentation interpretable. The model selects real patches seen during training as prototypes and…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Cross-Modal Learning of Housing Quality in Amsterdam

Alex Levering, Diego Marcos, Devis Tuia

In our research we test data and models for the recognition of housing quality in the city of Amsterdam from ground-level and aerial imagery. For ground-level images we compare Goo…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Time Series Analysis of Urban Liveability

Alex Levering, Diego Marcos, Devis Tuia

In this paper we explore deep learning models to monitor longitudinal liveability changes in Dutch cities at the neighbourhood level. Our liveability reference data is defined by a…

cs.CV2023

Masking Strategies for Background Bias Removal in Computer Vision Models

Ananthu Aniraj, Cassio F. Dantas, Dino Ienco +1

Models for fine-grained image classification tasks, where the difference between some classes can be extremely subtle and the number of samples per class tends to be low, are parti…

cs.LG2023

Sparse Linear Concept Discovery Models

Konstantinos P. Panousis, Dino Ienco, Diego Marcos

The recent mass adoption of DNNs, even in safety-critical scenarios, has shifted the focus of the research community towards the creation of inherently intrepretable models. Concep…

q-bio.PE2023★ 3 cited

The GeoLifeCLEF 2023 Dataset to evaluate plant species distribution models at high spatial resolution across Europe

Christophe Botella, Benjamin Deneu, Diego Marcos +6

The difficulty to measure or predict species community composition at fine spatio-temporal resolution and over large spatial scales severely hampers our ability to understand speci…

cs.LG2023

Towards Explainable Land Cover Mapping: a Counterfactual-based Strategy

Cassio F. Dantas, Diego Marcos, Dino Ienco

Counterfactual explanations are an emerging tool to enhance interpretability of deep learning models. Given a sample, these methods seek to find and display to the user similar sam…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

A weakly supervised framework for high-resolution crop yield forecasts

Dilli R. Paudel, Diego Marcos, Allard de Wit +2

Predictor inputs and label data for crop yield forecasting are not always available at the same spatial resolution. We propose a deep learning framework that uses high resolution i…

cs.CV2021★ 106 cited

Semantic Segmentation of Remote Sensing Images with Sparse Annotations

Yuansheng Hua, Diego Marcos, Lichao Mou +2

Training Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for very high resolution images requires a large quantity of high-quality pixel-level annotations, which is extremely labor- and time-…

cs.CV2021

Self-supervised pre-training enhances change detection in Sentinel-2 imagery

Marrit Leenstra, Diego Marcos, Francesca Bovolo +1

While annotated images for change detection using satellite imagery are scarce and costly to obtain, there is a wealth of unlabeled images being generated every day. In order to le…

eess.SP2020★ 70 cited

Multi-temporal and multi-source remote sensing image classification by nonlinear relative normalization

Devis Tuia, Diego Marcos, Gustau Camps-Valls

Remote sensing image classification exploiting multiple sensors is a very challenging problem: data from different modalities are affected by spectral distortions and mis-alignment…

eess.IV2020★ 101 cited

deSpeckNet: Generalizing Deep Learning Based SAR Image Despeckling

Adugna G. Mullissa, Diego Marcos, Devis Tuia +2

Deep learning (DL) has proven to be a suitable approach for despeckling synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. So far, most DL models are trained to reduce speckle that follows a p…

cs.CV2020

Contextual Semantic Interpretability

Diego Marcos, Ruth Fong, Sylvain Lobry +3

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are known to learn an image representation that captures concepts relevant to the task, but do so in an implicit way that hampers model interpre…

eess.IV2020★ 14 cited

Open source tools for management and archiving of digital microscopy data to allow integration with patient pathology and treatment information

Matloob Khushi, Georgina Edwards, Diego Alonso de Marcos +3

Virtual microscopy includes digitisation of histology slides and the use of computer technologies for complex investigation of diseases such as cancer. However, automated image ana…

cs.CV2020★ 295 cited

RSVQA: Visual Question Answering for Remote Sensing Data

Sylvain Lobry, Diego Marcos, Jesse Murray +1

This paper introduces the task of visual question answering for remote sensing data (RSVQA). Remote sensing images contain a wealth of information which can be useful for a wide ra…

cs.CV2019

Semantically Interpretable Activation Maps: what-where-how explanations within CNNs

Diego Marcos, Sylvain Lobry, Devis Tuia

A main issue preventing the use of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) in end user applications is the low level of transparency in the decision process. Previous work on CNN inter…

cs.CV2019★ 143 cited

Half a Percent of Labels is Enough: Efficient Animal Detection in UAV Imagery using Deep CNNs and Active Learning

Benjamin Kellenberger, Diego Marcos, Sylvain Lobry +1

We present an Active Learning (AL) strategy for re-using a deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based object detector on a new dataset. This is of particular interest for wildli…

cs.CV2018★ 41 cited

Scale equivariance in CNNs with vector fields

Diego Marcos, Benjamin Kellenberger, Sylvain Lobry +1

We study the effect of injecting local scale equivariance into Convolutional Neural Networks. This is done by applying each convolutional filter at multiple scales. The output is a…

cs.CV2018★ 340 cited

Detecting Mammals in UAV Images: Best Practices to address a substantially Imbalanced Dataset with Deep Learning

Benjamin Kellenberger, Diego Marcos, Devis Tuia

Knowledge over the number of animals in large wildlife reserves is a vital necessity for park rangers in their efforts to protect endangered species. Manual animal censuses are dan…

cs.CV2018★ 43 cited

Learning deep structured active contours end-to-end

Diego Marcos, Devis Tuia, Benjamin Kellenberger +4

The world is covered with millions of buildings, and precisely knowing each instance's position and extents is vital to a multitude of applications. Recently, automated building fo…

cs.CV2018★ 287 cited

Land cover mapping at very high resolution with rotation equivariant CNNs: towards small yet accurate models

Diego Marcos, Michele Volpi, Benjamin Kellenberger +1

In remote sensing images, the absolute orientation of objects is arbitrary. Depending on an object's orientation and on a sensor's flight path, objects of the same semantic class c…

cs.CV2016★ 242 cited

Rotation equivariant vector field networks

Diego Marcos, Michele Volpi, Nikos Komodakis +1

In many computer vision tasks, we expect a particular behavior of the output with respect to rotations of the input image. If this relationship is explicitly encoded, instead of tr…