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most citedArtificial intelligence to advance Earth observation: : A review of models, recent trends, and pathways forward

67 citations · 148 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.CV2026

Deep Evidential Regression for Sparse Forest Height Estimation from Multimodal Satellite Imagery

Laura Bader, Muhammad Ammar Ahmed, Xiao Xiang Zhu +1

Accurate estimation of forest height from satellite imagery is essential for applications such as carbon accounting, biodiversity monitoring, and ecosystem management. While recent…

cs.CV2026

EO-VAE: Towards A Multi-sensor Tokenizer for Earth Observation Data

Nils Lehmann, Yi Wang, Zhitong Xiong +1

State-of-the-art generative image and video models rely heavily on tokenizers that compress high-dimensional inputs into more efficient latent representations. While this paradigm…

cs.CV2026

Reconstructing Building Height from Spaceborne TomoSAR Point Clouds Using a Dual-Topology Network

Zhaiyu Chen, Yuanyuan Wang, Yilei Shi +1

Reliable building height estimation is essential for various urban applications. Spaceborne SAR tomography (TomoSAR) provides weather-independent, side-looking observations that ca…

cs.CV2025

Towards Unified Vision Language Models for Forest Ecological Analysis in Earth Observation

Xizhe Xue, Xiao Xiang Zhu

Recent progress in vision language models (VLMs) has enabled remarkable perception and reasoning capabilities, yet their potential for scientific regression in Earth Observation (E…

cs.CL2025

Generating Synthetic Oracle Datasets to Analyze Noise Impact: A Study on Building Function Classification Using Tweets

Shanshan Bai, Anna Kruspe, Xiaoxiang Zhu

Tweets provides valuable semantic context for earth observation tasks and serves as a complementary modality to remote sensing imagery. In building function classification (BFC), t…

cs.CV2025

i-WiViG: Interpretable Window Vision GNN

Ivica Obadic, Dmitry Kangin, Adrian Höhl +3

Vision graph neural networks have emerged as a popular approach for modeling the global and spatial context for image recognition. However, a significant drawback of these methods…

cs.CV2024★ 42 cited

SpectralEarth: Training Hyperspectral Foundation Models at Scale

Nassim Ait Ali Braham, Conrad M Albrecht, Julien Mairal +3

Foundation models have triggered a paradigm shift in computer vision and are increasingly being adopted in remote sensing, particularly for multispectral imagery. Yet, their potent…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Multi-Label Guided Soft Contrastive Learning for Efficient Earth Observation Pretraining

Yi Wang, Conrad M Albrecht, Xiao Xiang Zhu

Self-supervised pretraining on large-scale satellite data has raised great interest in building Earth observation (EO) foundation models. However, many important resources beyond p…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

CromSS: Cross-modal pre-training with noisy labels for remote sensing image segmentation

Chenying Liu, Conrad Albrecht, Yi Wang +1

We explore the potential of large-scale noisily labeled data to enhance feature learning by pretraining semantic segmentation models within a multi-modal framework for geospatial a…

cs.CV2024

Contrastive Pretraining for Visual Concept Explanations of Socioeconomic Outcomes

Ivica Obadic, Alex Levering, Lars Pennig +3

Predicting socioeconomic indicators from satellite imagery with deep learning has become an increasingly popular research direction. Post-hoc concept-based explanations can be an i…

cs.CV2024

AIO2: Online Correction of Object Labels for Deep Learning with Incomplete Annotation in Remote Sensing Image Segmentation

Chenying Liu, Conrad M Albrecht, Yi Wang +2

While the volume of remote sensing data is increasing daily, deep learning in Earth Observation faces lack of accurate annotations for supervised optimization. Crowdsourcing projec…

cs.CV2024

PixelDINO: Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation for Detecting Permafrost Disturbances

Konrad Heidler, Ingmar Nitze, Guido Grosse +1

Arctic Permafrost is facing significant changes due to global climate change. As these regions are largely inaccessible, remote sensing plays a crucial rule in better understanding…

cs.CV2023★ 5 cited

Feature Guided Masked Autoencoder for Self-supervised Learning in Remote Sensing

Yi Wang, Hugo Hernández Hernández, Conrad M Albrecht +1

Self-supervised learning guided by masked image modelling, such as Masked AutoEncoder (MAE), has attracted wide attention for pretraining vision transformers in remote sensing. How…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

UCDFormer: Unsupervised Change Detection Using a Transformer-driven Image Translation

Qingsong Xu, Yilei Shi, Jianhua Guo +2

Change detection (CD) by comparing two bi-temporal images is a crucial task in remote sensing. With the advantages of requiring no cumbersome labeled change information, unsupervis…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

A Deep Active Contour Model for Delineating Glacier Calving Fronts

Konrad Heidler, Lichao Mou, Erik Loebel +3

Choosing how to encode a real-world problem as a machine learning task is an important design decision in machine learning. The task of glacier calving front modeling has often bee…

cs.CV2023

RRSIS: Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation

Zhenghang Yuan, Lichao Mou, Yuansheng Hua +1

Localizing desired objects from remote sensing images is of great use in practical applications. Referring image segmentation, which aims at segmenting out the objects to which a g…

cs.CV2023★ 67 cited

Artificial intelligence to advance Earth observation: : A review of models, recent trends, and pathways forward

Devis Tuia, Konrad Schindler, Begüm Demir +11

Earth observation (EO) is a prime instrument for monitoring land and ocean processes, studying the dynamics at work, and taking the pulse of our planet. This article gives a bird's…

cs.CV2023★ 29 cited

Multi-Modal and Multi-Resolution Data Fusion for High-Resolution Cloud Removal: A Novel Baseline and Benchmark

Fang Xu, Yilei Shi, Patrick Ebel +2

Cloud removal is a significant and challenging problem in remote sensing, and in recent years, there have been notable advancements in this area. However, two major issues remain h…