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20222026
most citedAI Security for Geoscience and Remote Sensing: Challenges and Future Trends

81 citations · 188 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.CV2026

On the Adversarial Robustness of Remote Sensing Semantic Change Detection

Weikang Yu, Yonghao Xu, Pedram Ghamisi

Semantic change detection (SCD) is a bitemporal dense-prediction task that jointly identifies changed regions and their semantic states before and after change. Unlike single-image…

cs.CV2026

SIGMAE: A Spectral-Index-Guided Foundation Model for Multispectral Remote Sensing

Xiaokang Zhang, Bo Li, Chufeng Zhou +2

Pretraining and fine-tuning have emerged as a new paradigm in remote sensing image interpretation. Among them, Masked Autoencoder (MAE)-based pretraining stands out for its strong…

cs.CV2025

FarSLIP: Discovering Effective CLIP Adaptation for Fine-Grained Remote Sensing Understanding

Zhenshi Li, Weikang Yu, Dilxat Muhtar +4

As CLIP's global alignment limits its ability to capture fine-grained details, recent efforts have focused on enhancing its region-text alignment. However, current remote sensing (…

cs.CV2025

EuroMineNet: A Multitemporal Sentinel-2 Benchmark for Spatiotemporal Mining Footprint Analysis in the European Union (2015-2024)

Weikang Yu, Vincent Nwazelibe, Xianping Ma +4

Mining activities are essential for industrial and economic development, but remain a leading source of environmental degradation, contributing to deforestation, soil erosion, and…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

Geospatial Foundation Models to Enable Progress on Sustainable Development Goals

Pedram Ghamisi, Weikang Yu, Xiaokang Zhang +5

Foundation Models (FMs) are large-scale, pre-trained artificial intelligence (AI) systems that have revolutionized natural language processing and computer vision, and are now adva…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

DOFA-CLIP: Multimodal Vision-Language Foundation Models for Earth Observation

Zhitong Xiong, Yi Wang, Weikang Yu +7

Earth observation (EO) spans a broad spectrum of modalities, including optical, radar, multispectral, and hyperspectral data, each capturing distinct environmental signals. However…

cs.CV2025

Change Captioning in Remote Sensing: Evolution to SAT-Cap -- A Single-Stage Transformer Approach

Yuduo Wang, Weikang Yu, Pedram Ghamisi

Change captioning has become essential for accurately describing changes in multi-temporal remote sensing data, providing an intuitive way to monitor Earth's dynamics through natur…

cs.CV2025★ 11 cited

Auto-Prompting SAM for Weakly Supervised Landslide Extraction

Jian Wang, Xiaokang Zhang, Xianping Ma +2

Weakly supervised landslide extraction aims to identify landslide regions from remote sensing data using models trained with weak labels, particularly image-level labels. However,…

cs.CV2024★ 3 cited

ChangeMinds: Multi-task Framework for Detecting and Describing Changes in Remote Sensing

Yuduo Wang, Weikang Yu, Michael Kopp +1

Recent advancements in Remote Sensing (RS) for Change Detection (CD) and Change Captioning (CC) have seen substantial success by adopting deep learning techniques. Despite these ad…

cs.CV2024

MineNetCD: A Benchmark for Global Mining Change Detection on Remote Sensing Imagery

Weikang Yu, Xiaokang Zhang, Xiao Xiang Zhu +2

Monitoring changes triggered by mining activities is crucial for industrial controlling, environmental management and regulatory compliance, yet it poses significant challenges due…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

Responsible AI for Earth Observation

Pedram Ghamisi, Weikang Yu, Andrea Marinoni +9

The convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and Earth observation (EO) technologies has brought geoscience and remote sensing into an era of unparalleled capabilities. AI's tra…

cs.CV2024★ 32 cited

MaskCD: A Remote Sensing Change Detection Network Based on Mask Classification

Weikang Yu, Xiaokang Zhang, Samiran Das +2

Change detection (CD) from remote sensing (RS) images using deep learning has been widely investigated in the literature. It is typically regarded as a pixel-wise labeling task tha…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Universal Adversarial Defense in Remote Sensing Based on Pre-trained Denoising Diffusion Models

Weikang Yu, Yonghao Xu, Pedram Ghamisi

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have risen to prominence as key solutions in numerous AI applications for earth observation (AI4EO). However, their susceptibility to adversarial exampl…

cs.CV2022★ 81 cited

AI Security for Geoscience and Remote Sensing: Challenges and Future Trends

Yonghao Xu, Tao Bai, Weikang Yu +3

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have significantly intensified research in the geoscience and remote sensing (RS) field. AI algorithms, especially deep learning-bas…

cs.CV2022★ 56 cited

Txt2Img-MHN: Remote Sensing Image Generation from Text Using Modern Hopfield Networks

Yonghao Xu, Weikang Yu, Pedram Ghamisi +2

The synthesis of high-resolution remote sensing images based on text descriptions has great potential in many practical application scenarios. Although deep neural networks have ac…