Search Results for author: Michael Schmitt

Found 25 papers, 14 papers with code

SenPa-MAE: Sensor Parameter Aware Masked Autoencoder for Multi-Satellite Self-Supervised Pretraining

1 code implementation20 Aug 2024 Jonathan Prexl, Michael Schmitt

This paper introduces SenPa-MAE, a transformer architecture that encodes the sensor parameters of an observed multispectral signal into the image embeddings.

Data Augmentation Diversity +1

Mapping Land Naturalness from Sentinel-2 using Deep Contextual and Geographical Priors

no code implementations27 Jun 2024 Burak Ekim, Michael Schmitt

In recent decades, the causes and consequences of climate change have accelerated, affecting our planet on an unprecedented scale.

There Are No Data Like More Data- Datasets for Deep Learning in Earth Observation

no code implementations30 Oct 2023 Michael Schmitt, Seyed Ali Ahmadi, Yonghao Xu, Gulsen Taskin, Ujjwal Verma, Francescopaolo Sica, Ronny Hansch

We hope to contribute to an understanding that the nature of our data is what distinguishes the Earth observation community from many other communities that apply deep learning techniques to image data, and that a detailed understanding of EO data peculiarities is among the core competencies of our discipline.

Earth Observation

A Benchmarking Protocol for SAR Colorization: From Regression to Deep Learning Approaches

no code implementations12 Oct 2023 Kangqing Shen, Gemine Vivone, Xiaoyuan Yang, Simone Lolli, Michael Schmitt

To our knowledge, this is the first attempt to propose a research line for SAR colorization that includes a protocol, a benchmark, and a complete performance evaluation.

Benchmarking Colorization +2

Probabilistic MIMO U-Net: Efficient and Accurate Uncertainty Estimation for Pixel-wise Regression

3 code implementations14 Aug 2023 Anton Baumann, Thomas Roßberg, Michael Schmitt

For that purpose, we adapted the U-Net architecture to train multiple subnetworks within a single model, harnessing the overparameterization in deep neural networks.

Computational Efficiency Image Classification +2

Explaining Multimodal Data Fusion: Occlusion Analysis for Wilderness Mapping

no code implementations5 Apr 2023 Burak Ekim, Michael Schmitt

Jointly harnessing complementary features of multi-modal input data in a common latent space has been found to be beneficial long ago.

Earth Observation

MapInWild: A Remote Sensing Dataset to Address the Question What Makes Nature Wild

1 code implementation5 Dec 2022 Burak Ekim, Timo T. Stomberg, Ribana Roscher, Michael Schmitt

Antrophonegic pressure (i. e. human influence) on the environment is one of the largest causes of the loss of biological diversity.

Earth Observation

EOD: The IEEE GRSS Earth Observation Database

no code implementations26 Sep 2022 Michael Schmitt, Pedram Ghamisi, Naoto Yokoya, Ronny Hänsch

In the era of deep learning, annotated datasets have become a crucial asset to the remote sensing community.

Earth Observation

Deep-Learning-Based Single-Image Height Reconstruction from Very-High-Resolution SAR Intensity Data

no code implementations3 Nov 2021 Michael Recla, Michael Schmitt

Originally developed in fields such as robotics and autonomous driving with image-based navigation in mind, deep learning-based single-image depth estimation (SIDE) has found great interest in the wider image analysis community.

Autonomous Driving Depth Estimation

There is no data like more data -- current status of machine learning datasets in remote sensing

2 code implementations25 May 2021 Michael Schmitt, Seyed Ali Ahmadi, Ronny Hänsch

Annotated datasets have become one of the most crucial preconditions for the development and evaluation of machine learning-based methods designed for the automated interpretation of remote sensing data.

BIG-bench Machine Learning

Remote Sensing Image Classification with the SEN12MS Dataset

1 code implementation1 Apr 2021 Michael Schmitt, Yu-Lun Wu

Using that, we provide results for several baseline models based on two standard CNN architectures and different input data configurations.

Benchmarking Classification +4

Spatially Resolving the Enhancement Effect in Surface-Enhanced Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering by Plasmonic Doppler Gratings

no code implementations12 Jan 2021 Lei Ouyang, Tobias Meyer, Kel-Meng See, Wei-Liang Chen, Fan-Cheng Lin, Denis Akimov, Sadaf Ehtesabi, Martin Richter, Michael Schmitt, Yu-Ming Chang, Stefanie Gräfe, Jürgen Popp, Jer-Shing Huang

In this work, we introduce the platform of plasmonic Doppler grating (PDG) to experimentally investigate the enhancement effect of plasmonic gratings in the input and output beams of nonlinear surface-enhanced coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (SECARS).

Optics Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Materials Science Other Condensed Matter Chemical Physics

Multi-task Learning for Human Settlement Extent Regression and Local Climate Zone Classification

no code implementations23 Nov 2020 Chunping Qiu, Lukas Liebel, Lloyd H. Hughes, Michael Schmitt, Marco Körner, Xiao Xiang Zhu

Human Settlement Extent (HSE) and Local Climate Zone (LCZ) maps are both essential sources, e. g., for sustainable urban development and Urban Heat Island (UHI) studies.

Classification General Classification +2

Synthesizing Optical and SAR Imagery From Land Cover Maps and Auxiliary Raster Data

1 code implementation23 Nov 2020 Gerald Baier, Antonin Deschemps, Michael Schmitt, Naoto Yokoya

We synthesize both optical RGB and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote sensing images from land cover maps and auxiliary raster data using generative adversarial networks (GANs).

Decoder Image Generation

Multi-level Feature Fusion-based CNN for Local Climate Zone Classification from Sentinel-2 Images: Benchmark Results on the So2Sat LCZ42 Dataset

1 code implementation16 May 2020 Chunping Qiu, Xiaochong Tong, Michael Schmitt, Benjamin Bechtel, Xiao Xiang Zhu

As a unique classification scheme for urban forms and functions, the local climate zone (LCZ) system provides essential general information for any studies related to urban environments, especially on a large scale.

Classification General Classification

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation of Satellite Images for Land Cover Mapping -- Challenges and Opportunities

1 code implementation19 Feb 2020 Michael Schmitt, Jonathan Prexl, Patrick Ebel, Lukas Liebel, Xiao Xiang Zhu

Therefore, this paper seeks to make a case for the application of weakly supervised learning strategies to get the most out of available data sources and achieve progress in high-resolution large-scale land cover mapping.

Weakly-supervised Learning Weakly supervised Semantic Segmentation +1

So2Sat LCZ42: A Benchmark Dataset for Global Local Climate Zones Classification

1 code implementation19 Dec 2019 Xiao Xiang Zhu, Jingliang Hu, Chunping Qiu, Yilei Shi, Jian Kang, Lichao Mou, Hossein Bagheri, Matthias Häberle, Yuansheng Hua, Rong Huang, Lloyd Hughes, Hao Li, Yao Sun, Guichen Zhang, Shiyao Han, Michael Schmitt, Yuanyuan Wang

This is especially true for an automated analysis of remote sensing images on a global scale, which enables us to address global challenges such as urbanization and climate change using state-of-the-art machine learning techniques.

BIG-bench Machine Learning Cultural Vocal Bursts Intensity Prediction +1

SEN12MS -- A Curated Dataset of Georeferenced Multi-Spectral Sentinel-1/2 Imagery for Deep Learning and Data Fusion

2 code implementations18 Jun 2019 Michael Schmitt, Lloyd Haydn Hughes, Chunping Qiu, Xiao Xiang Zhu

The availability of curated large-scale training data is a crucial factor for the development of well-generalizing deep learning methods for the extraction of geoinformation from multi-sensor remote sensing imagery.

Cloud Computing Diversity +2

A Conditional Generative Adversarial Network to Fuse Sar And Multispectral Optical Data For Cloud Removal From Sentinel-2 Images

no code implementations IGARSS 2018 Claas Grohnfeldt, Michael Schmitt, Xiaoxiang Zhu

In this paper, we present the first conditional generative adversarial network (cGAN) architecture that is specifically designed to fuse synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and optical multi-spectral (MS) image data to generate cloud- and haze-free MS optical data from a cloud-corrupted MS input and an auxiliary SAR image.

Cloud Removal Generative Adversarial Network

The SEN1-2 Dataset for Deep Learning in SAR-Optical Data Fusion

no code implementations4 Jul 2018 Michael Schmitt, Lloyd Haydn Hughes, Xiao Xiang Zhu

While deep learning techniques have an increasing impact on many technical fields, gathering sufficient amounts of training data is a challenging problem in remote sensing.

Colorization Image Colorization

Identifying Corresponding Patches in SAR and Optical Images with a Pseudo-Siamese CNN

no code implementations25 Jan 2018 Lloyd H. Hughes, Michael Schmitt, Lichao Mou, Yuanyuan Wang, Xiao Xiang Zhu

In this letter, we propose a pseudo-siamese convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture that enables to solve the task of identifying corresponding patches in very-high-resolution (VHR) optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote sensing imagery.

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