1 code implementation • 20 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.
no code implementations • 27 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.
no code implementations • 30 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.
no code implementations • 12 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.
3 code implementations • 14 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.
1 code implementation • 11 Apr 2023 • Patrick Ebel, Vivien Sainte Fare Garnot, Michael Schmitt, Jan Dirk Wegner, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Clouds and haze often occlude optical satellite images, hindering continuous, dense monitoring of the Earth's surface.
Ranked #2 on Cloud Removal on SEN12MS-CR
no code implementations • 5 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.
1 code implementation • 5 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.
no code implementations • 26 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.
1 code implementation • 24 Jan 2022 • Patrick Ebel, Yajin Xu, Michael Schmitt, Xiaoxiang Zhu
About half of all optical observations collected via spaceborne satellites are affected by haze or clouds.
Ranked #3 on Cloud Removal on SEN12MS-CR-TS
no code implementations • 3 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.
2 code implementations • 25 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.
1 code implementation • 1 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.
no code implementations • 12 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
no code implementations • 23 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.
1 code implementation • 23 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).
1 code implementation • 16 Sep 2020 • Patrick Ebel, Andrea Meraner, Michael Schmitt, Xiaoxiang Zhu
This work has been accepted by IEEE TGRS for publication.
1 code implementation • 2 Jul 2020 • Andrea Meraner, Patrick Ebel, Xiao Xiang Zhu, Michael Schmitt
Optical remote sensing imagery is at the core of many Earth observation activities.
Ranked #4 on Cloud Removal on SEN12MS-CR
1 code implementation • 16 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.
1 code implementation • 19 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
1 code implementation • 19 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
2 code implementations • 18 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.
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.
Ranked #6 on Cloud Removal on SEN12MS-CR
no code implementations • 4 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.
no code implementations • 25 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.