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cs.CV2026

Prompting-MammAlps: Fine-Grained Text-to-Video Retrieval for Camera-Trap Data

Valentin Gabeff, Baptiste Maquignaz, Jennifer Shan +5

Automatically retrieving videos from large camera-trap datasets remains challenging. Text-to-Video retrieval (TVR) methods based on large video-language models (VLMs) have potentia…

cs.CV2025

SMARTIES: Spectrum-Aware Multi-Sensor Auto-Encoder for Remote Sensing Images

Gencer Sumbul, Chang Xu, Emanuele Dalsasso +1

From optical sensors to microwave radars, leveraging the complementary strengths of remote sensing (RS) sensors is crucial for achieving dense spatio-temporal monitoring of our pla…

cs.CV2025

Redundancy-Aware Pretraining of Vision-Language Foundation Models in Remote Sensing

Mathis Jürgen Adler, Leonard Hackel, Gencer Sumbul +1

The development of foundation models through pretraining of vision-language models (VLMs) has recently attracted great attention in remote sensing (RS). VLM pretraining aims to lea…

cs.CV2025

A Multi-Modal Federated Learning Framework for Remote Sensing Image Classification

Barış Büyüktaş, Gencer Sumbul, Begüm Demir

Federated learning (FL) enables the collaborative training of deep neural networks across decentralized data archives (i.e., clients) without sharing the local data of the clients.…

cs.CV2024★ 5 cited

reBEN: Refined BigEarthNet Dataset for Remote Sensing Image Analysis

Kai Norman Clasen, Leonard Hackel, Tom Burgert +3

This paper presents refined BigEarthNet (reBEN) that is a large-scale, multi-modal remote sensing dataset constructed to support deep learning (DL) studies for remote sensing image…

cs.CV2024

Annotation Cost-Efficient Active Learning for Deep Metric Learning Driven Remote Sensing Image Retrieval

Genc Hoxha, Gencer Sumbul, Julia Henkel +2

Deep metric learning (DML) has shown to be effective for content-based image retrieval (CBIR) in remote sensing (RS). Most of DML methods for CBIR rely on a high number of annotate…

cs.CV2023★ 16 cited

Federated Learning Across Decentralized and Unshared Archives for Remote Sensing Image Classification

Barış Büyüktaş, Gencer Sumbul, Begüm Demir

Federated learning (FL) enables the collaboration of multiple deep learning models to learn from decentralized data archives (i.e., clients) without accessing data on clients. Alth…

cs.CV2023

Annotation Cost Efficient Active Learning for Content Based Image Retrieval

Julia Henkel, Genc Hoxha, Gencer Sumbul +2

Deep metric learning (DML) based methods have been found very effective for content-based image retrieval (CBIR) in remote sensing (RS). For accurately learning the model parameter…

cs.CV2023

Label Noise Robust Image Representation Learning based on Supervised Variational Autoencoders in Remote Sensing

Gencer Sumbul, Begüm Demir

Due to the publicly available thematic maps and crowd-sourced data, remote sensing (RS) image annotations can be gathered at zero cost for training deep neural networks (DNNs). How…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Learning Across Decentralized Multi-Modal Remote Sensing Archives with Federated Learning

Barış Büyüktaş, Gencer Sumbul, Begüm Demir

The development of federated learning (FL) methods, which aim to learn from distributed databases (i.e., clients) without accessing data on clients, has recently attracted great at…

cs.CV2022★ 12 cited

Generative Reasoning Integrated Label Noise Robust Deep Image Representation Learning

Gencer Sumbul, Begüm Demir

The development of deep learning based image representation learning (IRL) methods has attracted great attention for various image understanding problems. Most of these methods req…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Deep Active Learning for Multi-Label Classification of Remote Sensing Images

Lars Möllenbrok, Gencer Sumbul, Begüm Demir

In this letter, we introduce deep active learning (AL) for multi-label classification (MLC) problems in remote sensing (RS). In particular, we investigate the effectiveness of seve…

cs.CV2022★ 16 cited

A Novel Self-Supervised Cross-Modal Image Retrieval Method In Remote Sensing

Gencer Sumbul, Markus Müller, Begüm Demir

Due to the availability of multi-modal remote sensing (RS) image archives, one of the most important research topics is the development of cross-modal RS image retrieval (CM-RSIR)…

cs.CV2022★ 5 cited

Deep Metric Learning-Based Semi-Supervised Regression With Alternate Learning

Adina Zell, Gencer Sumbul, Begüm Demir

This paper introduces a novel deep metric learning-based semi-supervised regression (DML-S2R) method for parameter estimation problems. The proposed DML-S2R method aims to mitigate…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

A Novel Framework to Jointly Compress and Index Remote Sensing Images for Efficient Content-Based Retrieval

Gencer Sumbul, Jun Xiang, Nimisha Thekke Madam +1

Remote sensing (RS) images are usually stored in compressed format to reduce the storage size of the archives. Thus, existing content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems in RS req…

cs.CV2021★ 209 cited

BigEarthNet-MM: A Large Scale Multi-Modal Multi-Label Benchmark Archive for Remote Sensing Image Classification and Retrieval

Gencer Sumbul, Arne de Wall, Tristan Kreuziger +6

This paper presents the multi-modal BigEarthNet (BigEarthNet-MM) benchmark archive made up of 590,326 pairs of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 image patches to support the deep learning…

cs.CV2021★ 1 cited

A Novel Graph-Theoretic Deep Representation Learning Method for Multi-Label Remote Sensing Image Retrieval

Gencer Sumbul, Begüm Demir

This paper presents a novel graph-theoretic deep representation learning method in the framework of multi-label remote sensing (RS) image retrieval problems. The proposed method ai…

cs.CV2021

Informative and Representative Triplet Selection for Multilabel Remote Sensing Image Retrieval

Gencer Sumbul, Mahdyar Ravanbakhsh, Begüm Demir

Learning the similarity between remote sensing (RS) images forms the foundation for content-based RS image retrieval (CBIR). Recently, deep metric learning approaches that map the…

cs.CV2020★ 3 cited

A Comparative Study of Deep Learning Loss Functions for Multi-Label Remote Sensing Image Classification

Hichame Yessou, Gencer Sumbul, Begüm Demir

This paper analyzes and compares different deep learning loss functions in the framework of multi-label remote sensing (RS) image scene classification problems. We consider seven l…

cs.CV2020★ 109 cited

SD-RSIC: Summarization Driven Deep Remote Sensing Image Captioning

Gencer Sumbul, Sonali Nayak, Begüm Demir

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been recently found popular for image captioning problems in remote sensing (RS). Existing DNN based approaches rely on the availability of a train…

cs.CV2020

Deep Learning for Image Search and Retrieval in Large Remote Sensing Archives

Gencer Sumbul, Jian Kang, Begüm Demir

This chapter presents recent advances in content based image search and retrieval (CBIR) systems in remote sensing (RS) for fast and accurate information discovery from massive dat…

cs.CV2020★ 16 cited

BigEarthNet Dataset with A New Class-Nomenclature for Remote Sensing Image Understanding

Gencer Sumbul, Jian Kang, Tristan Kreuziger +5

This paper presents BigEarthNet that is a large-scale Sentinel-2 multispectral image dataset with a new class nomenclature to advance deep learning (DL) studies in remote sensing (…

cs.CV2019★ 43 cited

A Novel Multi-Attention Driven System For Multi-Label Remote Sensing Image Classification

Gencer Sumbul, Begüm Demir

This paper presents a novel multi-attention driven system that jointly exploits Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) in the context of multi-label…

cs.CV2019★ 548 cited

BigEarthNet: A Large-Scale Benchmark Archive For Remote Sensing Image Understanding

Gencer Sumbul, Marcela Charfuelan, Begüm Demir +1

This paper presents the BigEarthNet that is a new large-scale multi-label Sentinel-2 benchmark archive. The BigEarthNet consists of 590,326 Sentinel-2 image patches, each of which…