4 papers
VistaFormer: Scalable Vision Transformers for Satellite Image Time Series Segmentation
Ezra MacDonald, Derek Jacoby, Yvonne Coady
We introduce VistaFormer, a lightweight Transformer-based model architecture for the semantic segmentation of remote-sensing images. This model uses a multi-scale Transformer-based…
Using Texture to Classify Forests Separately from Vegetation
David R. Treadwell, Derek Jacoby, Will Parkinson +2
Identifying terrain within satellite image data is a key issue in geographical information sciences, with numerous environmental and safety implications. Many techniques exist to d…
Human Latency Conversational Turns for Spoken Avatar Systems
Derek Jacoby, Tianyi Zhang, Aanchan Mohan +1
A problem with many current Large Language Model (LLM) driven spoken dialogues is the response time. Some efforts such as Groq address this issue by lightning fast processing of th…
Remote Possibilities: Where there is a WIL, is there a Way? AI Education for Remote Learners in a New Era of Work-Integrated-Learning
Derek Jacoby, Saiph Savage, Yvonne Coady
Increasing diversity in educational settings is challenging in part due to the lack of access to resources for non-traditional learners in remote communities. Post-pandemic platfor…