22 papers
On the Effectiveness of Adaptation Strategies for VLM-Based Federated Learning in Remote Sensing
Simon Lösche, Barış Büyüktaş, Mathis Adler +3
Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative training of deep learning models across decentralized image archives without requiring data centralization. This paradigm is particula…
Evaluating the Interpretability of Sparse Autoencoders with Concept Annotations
Jonas Klotz, Cassio F. Dantas, Pallavi Jain +2
Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are increasingly used to extract interpretable concepts from vision and vision language models, yet existing evaluation methods largely rely on proxy met…
Noise-Adaptive Regularization for Robust Multi-Label Remote Sensing Image Classification
Tom Burgert, Julia Henkel, Begüm Demir
The development of reliable methods for multi-label classification (MLC) has become a prominent research direction in remote sensing (RS). As the scale of RS data continues to expa…
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…
Agentic AI for Remote Sensing: Technical Challenges and Research Directions
Muhammad Akhtar Munir, Muhammad Umer Sheikh, Akashah Shabbir +5
Earth Observation (EO) is moving beyond static prediction toward multi-step analytical workflows that require coordinated reasoning over data, tools, and geospatial state. While fo…
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…