5 papers
Project SPARROW and the Future of Conservation Technology
Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Carl Chalmers, Bruno Demuro Segundo +14
Global biodiversity is declining at unprecedented rates, yet the tools available to monitor and protect ecosystems remain limited by constraints in power, connectivity, and accessi…
BYOL: Bring Your Own Language Into LLMs
Syed Waqas Zamir, Wassim Hamidouche, Boulbaba Ben Amor +3
Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit strong multilingual capabilities, yet remain fundamentally constrained by the severe imbalance in global language resources. While over 7,000 l…
TEMPO: Global Temporal Building Density and Height Estimation from Satellite Imagery
Tammy Glazer, Gilles Q. Hacheme, Akram Zaytar +9
We present TEMPO, a global, temporally resolved dataset of building density and height derived from high-resolution satellite imagery using deep learning models. We pair building f…
Local vs. Global: Local Land-Use and Land-Cover Models Deliver Higher Quality Maps
Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Caleb Robinson, Charles Mwangi +7
In 2023, 58.0% of the African population experienced moderate to severe food insecurity, with 21.6% facing severe food insecurity. Land-use and land-cover maps provide crucial insi…
PGRID: Power Grid Reconstruction in Informal Developments Using High-Resolution Aerial Imagery
Simone Fobi Nsutezo, Amrita Gupta, Duncan Kebut +5
As of 2023, a record 117 million people have been displaced worldwide, more than double the number from a decade ago [22]. Of these, 32 million are refugees under the UNHCR mandate…