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20222026
most citedreBEN: Refined BigEarthNet Dataset for Remote Sensing Image Analysis

5 citations · 10 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.CV2026

BigEarthNet.txt: A Large-Scale Multi-Sensor Image-Text Dataset and Benchmark for Earth Observation

Johann-Ludwig Herzog, Mathis Jürgen Adler, Leonard Hackel +5

Vision-langugage models (VLMs) have shown strong performance in computer vision (CV), yet their performance on remote sensing (RS) data remains limited due to the lack of large-sca…

cs.CV2026

Rank-based Geographical Regularization: Revisiting Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning for Multispectral Remote Sensing Imagery

Tom Burgert, Leonard Hackel, Paolo Rota +1

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has become a powerful paradigm for learning from large, unlabeled datasets, particularly in computer vision (CV). However, applying SSL to multispect…

cs.CV2026

How Much of a Model Do We Need? Redundancy and Slimmability in Remote Sensing Foundation Models

Leonard Hackel, Tom Burgert, Begüm Demir

Large-scale foundation models (FMs) in remote sensing (RS) (denoted as RS FMs) are developed following paradigms established in computer vision (CV), yet the validity of transferri…

cs.CV2025

CSMoE: An Efficient Remote Sensing Foundation Model with Soft Mixture-of-Experts

Leonard Hackel, Tom Burgert, Begüm Demir

Self-supervised learning (SSL) through masked autoencoders (MAEs) has recently attracted great attention for remote sensing (RS) foundation model (FM) development, enabling improve…

cs.CV2025

Redundancy-Aware Pretraining of Vision-Language Foundation Models in Remote Sensing

Mathis Jürgen Adler, Leonard Hackel, Gencer Sumbul +1

The development of foundation models through pretraining of vision-language models (VLMs) has recently attracted great attention in remote sensing (RS). VLM pretraining aims to lea…

cs.CV2024★ 5 cited

reBEN: Refined BigEarthNet Dataset for Remote Sensing Image Analysis

Kai Norman Clasen, Leonard Hackel, Tom Burgert +3

This paper presents refined BigEarthNet (reBEN) that is a large-scale, multi-modal remote sensing dataset constructed to support deep learning (DL) studies for remote sensing image…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

LiT-4-RSVQA: Lightweight Transformer-based Visual Question Answering in Remote Sensing

Leonard Hackel, Kai Norman Clasen, Mahdyar Ravanbakhsh +1

Visual question answering (VQA) methods in remote sensing (RS) aim to answer natural language questions with respect to an RS image. Most of the existing methods require a large am…

cs.CV2022★ 4 cited

Advanced Deep Learning Architectures for Accurate Detection of Subsurface Tile Drainage Pipes from Remote Sensing Images

Tom-Lukas Breitkopf, Leonard W. Hackel, Mahdyar Ravanbakhsh +4

Subsurface tile drainage pipes provide agronomic, economic and environmental benefits. By lowering the water table of wet soils, they improve the aeration of plant roots and ultima…