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cs.CV2023★ 16 cited

Federated Learning Across Decentralized and Unshared Archives for Remote Sensing Image Classification

Barış Büyüktaş, Gencer Sumbul, Begüm Demir

Federated learning (FL) enables the collaboration of multiple deep learning models to learn from decentralized data archives (i.e., clients) without accessing data on clients. Alth…

cs.CV2023

Ben-ge: Extending BigEarthNet with Geographical and Environmental Data

Michael Mommert, Nicolas Kesseli, Joëlle Hanna +3

Deep learning methods have proven to be a powerful tool in the analysis of large amounts of complex Earth observation data. However, while Earth observation data are multi-modal in…

cs.CV2023

Annotation Cost Efficient Active Learning for Content Based Image Retrieval

Julia Henkel, Genc Hoxha, Gencer Sumbul +2

Deep metric learning (DML) based methods have been found very effective for content-based image retrieval (CBIR) in remote sensing (RS). For accurately learning the model parameter…

cs.CV2023

Active Learning Guided Fine-Tuning for enhancing Self-Supervised Based Multi-Label Classification of Remote Sensing Images

Lars Möllenbrok, Begüm Demir

In recent years, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been found very successful for multi-label classification (MLC) of remote sensing (RS) images. Self-supervised pre-training combin…

cs.CV2023

Label Noise Robust Image Representation Learning based on Supervised Variational Autoencoders in Remote Sensing

Gencer Sumbul, Begüm Demir

Due to the publicly available thematic maps and crowd-sourced data, remote sensing (RS) image annotations can be gathered at zero cost for training deep neural networks (DNNs). How…

cs.CV2023

Transformer-based Multi-Modal Learning for Multi Label Remote Sensing Image Classification

David Hoffmann, Kai Norman Clasen, Begüm Demir

In this paper, we introduce a novel Synchronized Class Token Fusion (SCT Fusion) architecture in the framework of multi-modal multi-label classification (MLC) of remote sensing (RS…

cs.CV2023★ 28 cited

HySpecNet-11k: A Large-Scale Hyperspectral Dataset for Benchmarking Learning-Based Hyperspectral Image Compression Methods

Martin Hermann Paul Fuchs, Begüm Demir

The development of learning-based hyperspectral image compression methods has recently attracted great attention in remote sensing. Such methods require a high number of hyperspect…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Learning Across Decentralized Multi-Modal Remote Sensing Archives with Federated Learning

Barış Büyüktaş, Gencer Sumbul, Begüm Demir

The development of federated learning (FL) methods, which aim to learn from distributed databases (i.e., clients) without accessing data on clients, has recently attracted great at…

cs.CV2022★ 12 cited

Generative Reasoning Integrated Label Noise Robust Deep Image Representation Learning

Gencer Sumbul, Begüm Demir

The development of deep learning based image representation learning (IRL) methods has attracted great attention for various image understanding problems. Most of these methods req…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Deep Active Learning for Multi-Label Classification of Remote Sensing Images

Lars Möllenbrok, Gencer Sumbul, Begüm Demir

In this letter, we introduce deep active learning (AL) for multi-label classification (MLC) problems in remote sensing (RS). In particular, we investigate the effectiveness of seve…

cs.CV2022★ 2 cited

Multi-Modal Fusion Transformer for Visual Question Answering in Remote Sensing

Tim Siebert, Kai Norman Clasen, Mahdyar Ravanbakhsh +1

With the new generation of satellite technologies, the archives of remote sensing (RS) images are growing very fast. To make the intrinsic information of each RS image easily acces…

cs.CV2022★ 2 cited

Unsupervised Contrastive Hashing for Cross-Modal Retrieval in Remote Sensing

Georgii Mikriukov, Mahdyar Ravanbakhsh, Begüm Demir

The development of cross-modal retrieval systems that can search and retrieve semantically relevant data across different modalities based on a query in any modality has attracted…

cs.CV2022

An Unsupervised Cross-Modal Hashing Method Robust to Noisy Training Image-Text Correspondences in Remote Sensing

Georgii Mikriukov, Mahdyar Ravanbakhsh, Begüm Demir

The development of accurate and scalable cross-modal image-text retrieval methods, where queries from one modality (e.g., text) can be matched to archive entries from another (e.g.…

cs.CV2022★ 16 cited

A Novel Self-Supervised Cross-Modal Image Retrieval Method In Remote Sensing

Gencer Sumbul, Markus Müller, Begüm Demir

Due to the availability of multi-modal remote sensing (RS) image archives, one of the most important research topics is the development of cross-modal RS image retrieval (CM-RSIR)…

cs.CV2022★ 5 cited

Deep Metric Learning-Based Semi-Supervised Regression With Alternate Learning

Adina Zell, Gencer Sumbul, Begüm Demir

This paper introduces a novel deep metric learning-based semi-supervised regression (DML-S2R) method for parameter estimation problems. The proposed DML-S2R method aims to mitigate…

cs.CV2022★ 21 cited

Deep Unsupervised Contrastive Hashing for Large-Scale Cross-Modal Text-Image Retrieval in Remote Sensing

Georgii Mikriukov, Mahdyar Ravanbakhsh, Begüm Demir

Due to the availability of large-scale multi-modal data (e.g., satellite images acquired by different sensors, text sentences, etc) archives, the development of cross-modal retriev…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation of Remote Sensing Images for Tree Species Classification Based on Explanation Methods

Steve Ahlswede, Nimisha Thekke-Madam, Christian Schulz +2

The collection of a high number of pixel-based labeled training samples for tree species identification is time consuming and costly in operational forestry applications. To addres…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

A Novel Framework to Jointly Compress and Index Remote Sensing Images for Efficient Content-Based Retrieval

Gencer Sumbul, Jun Xiang, Nimisha Thekke Madam +1

Remote sensing (RS) images are usually stored in compressed format to reduce the storage size of the archives. Thus, existing content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems in RS req…

cs.CV2021★ 12 cited

A Consensual Collaborative Learning Method for Remote Sensing Image Classification Under Noisy Multi-Labels

Ahmet Kerem Aksoy, Mahdyar Ravanbakhsh, Tristan Kreuziger +1

Collecting a large number of reliable training images annotated by multiple land-cover class labels in the framework of multi-label classification is time-consuming and costly in r…

cs.CV2021★ 209 cited

BigEarthNet-MM: A Large Scale Multi-Modal Multi-Label Benchmark Archive for Remote Sensing Image Classification and Retrieval

Gencer Sumbul, Arne de Wall, Tristan Kreuziger +6

This paper presents the multi-modal BigEarthNet (BigEarthNet-MM) benchmark archive made up of 590,326 pairs of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 image patches to support the deep learning…

cs.CV2021★ 1 cited

A Novel Graph-Theoretic Deep Representation Learning Method for Multi-Label Remote Sensing Image Retrieval

Gencer Sumbul, Begüm Demir

This paper presents a novel graph-theoretic deep representation learning method in the framework of multi-label remote sensing (RS) image retrieval problems. The proposed method ai…

cs.CV2021

Informative and Representative Triplet Selection for Multilabel Remote Sensing Image Retrieval

Gencer Sumbul, Mahdyar Ravanbakhsh, Begüm Demir

Learning the similarity between remote sensing (RS) images forms the foundation for content-based RS image retrieval (CBIR). Recently, deep metric learning approaches that map the…

cs.CV2020★ 3 cited

A Comparative Study of Deep Learning Loss Functions for Multi-Label Remote Sensing Image Classification

Hichame Yessou, Gencer Sumbul, Begüm Demir

This paper analyzes and compares different deep learning loss functions in the framework of multi-label remote sensing (RS) image scene classification problems. We consider seven l…

cs.CV2020★ 109 cited

SD-RSIC: Summarization Driven Deep Remote Sensing Image Captioning

Gencer Sumbul, Sonali Nayak, Begüm Demir

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been recently found popular for image captioning problems in remote sensing (RS). Existing DNN based approaches rely on the availability of a train…