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most citedDetection and Geographic Localization of Natural Objects in the Wild: A Case Study on Palms

11 citations · 15 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.CV2026

AwakeForest: An Interactive Geospatial Platform for Large-Scale Forest Imagery

Suraj Prasai, Kangning Cui, Rongkun Zhu +5

Forest imagery analysis often involves multiple tightly coupled vision tasks, which must be performed under substantial variation in geographic regions, sensors, and acquisition co…

cs.CV2026

ELDOR: A Dataset and Benchmark for Illegal Gold Mining in the Amazon Rainforest

Kangning Cui, Surendra Bohara, Suraj Prasai +12

Illegal gold mining in the Amazon rainforest causes deforestation, water contamination, and long-term ecosystem disruption, yet remains difficult to monitor at fine spatial scales.…

cs.CV2025

From Orthomosaics to Raw UAV Imagery: Enhancing Palm Detection and Crown-Center Localization

Rongkun Zhu, Kangning Cui, Wei Tang +10

Accurate mapping of individual trees is essential for ecological monitoring and forest management. Orthomosaic imagery from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is widely used, but stit…

cs.CV2025★ 11 cited

Detection and Geographic Localization of Natural Objects in the Wild: A Case Study on Palms

Kangning Cui, Rongkun Zhu, Manqi Wang +9

Palms are ecologically and economically indicators of tropical forest health, biodiversity, and human impact that support local economies and global forest product supply chains. W…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

Real-Time Localization and Bimodal Point Pattern Analysis of Palms Using UAV Imagery

Kangning Cui, Wei Tang, Rongkun Zhu +12

Understanding the spatial distribution of palms within tropical forests is essential for effective ecological monitoring, conservation strategies, and the sustainable integration o…

cs.AI2024

ASGM-KG: Unveiling Alluvial Gold Mining Through Knowledge Graphs

Debashis Gupta, Aditi Golder, Luis Fernendez +6

Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) is a low-cost yet highly destructive mining practice, leading to environmental disasters across the world's tropical watersheds. The to…

cs.CV2024

PalmProbNet: A Probabilistic Approach to Understanding Palm Distributions in Ecuadorian Tropical Forest via Transfer Learning

Kangning Cui, Zishan Shao, Gregory Larsen +8

Palms play an outsized role in tropical forests and are important resources for humans and wildlife. A central question in tropical ecosystems is understanding palm distribution an…

cs.CV2022

Semi-supervised Change Detection of Small Water Bodies Using RGB and Multispectral Images in Peruvian Rainforests

Kangning Cui, Seda Camalan, Ruoning Li +7

Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) is an important source of income for many households, but it can have large social and environmental effects, especially in rainforests…

cs.RO2019★ 2 cited

Robustness-Driven Exploration with Probabilistic Metric Temporal Logic

Xiaotian Liu, Pengyi Shi, Sarra Alqahtani +2

The ability to perform autonomous exploration is essential for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) operating in unstructured or unknown environments where it is hard or even impossible…