arXiv Computer Vision

Semantics-Aware Hierarchical Consensus Learning for Remote Sensing Image Classification

The paper introduces Semantics-Aware Hierarchical Consensus (SAHC), a deep learning framework that incorporates hierarchical-level-specific classification heads and cross-level probability projectors to leverage predefined label hierarchies in remote sensing image classification. SAHC fuses direct and projected predictions into a geometric consensus distribution, enabling self-consistent training and optional hierarchy-aware inference. Experiments on two benchmark datasets demonstrate the method’s effectiveness in guiding network learning and its robustness across varying spectral and spatial resolutions.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 20

More with Less: a Large Scale Remote Sensing VLM with a Simple Recipe

arXiv:2607. 15942v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Remote sensing vision-language models are increasingly expected to support open-ended reasoning over Earth Observation data and a variety of tasks.

By Stefan Maria Ailuro (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"), Mario Markov (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"), Mohammad Mahdi (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"), Luc Van Gool (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"), Danda Pani Paudel (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski")
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 24

Semantic-Guided Fusion Network for Multi-Source Remote Sensing Image Classification

The paper introduces SGFNet, a Semantic‑Guided Fusion Network for classifying multi‑source remote sensing images. It features a Semantic Mixing Convolution Block that generates semantic‑aware kernels based on contextual relationships, and a Frequency Modulated Fusion Block that fuses cross‑modal information in the frequency domain to mitigate spatial misalignment. Experiments on the Augsburg and Houston 2018 datasets show SGFNet consistently outperforms state‑of‑the‑art methods.

By Yuwei Zhao, Chuanzheng Gong, Baogui Huan, Feng Gao, Junyu Dong, Qian Du
arXiv AI
Jun 2

CAFOSat: A Strongly Annotated Dataset for Infrastructure-Aware CAFO Mapping Using High-Resolution Imagery

arXiv:2606. 00548v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) play an important role in agricultural production but are also associated with environmental, public health, and disease surveillance concerns.

By Oishee Bintey Hoque, Nibir Chandra Mandal, Mandy L Wilson, Samarth Swarup, Madhav Marathe, Abhijin Adiga
arXiv AI
Aug 18

Hierarchical Adaptive Feature Refinement Network for VHR Remote Sensing Image Segmentation

arXiv:2608. 15647v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semantic segmentation of very-high-resolution (VHR) remote sensing imagery increasingly benefits from strong pretrained hierarchical encoders, yet exploiting their multi-stage representations remains difficult.

By Shuaishuai Cao, Meng Tang, Shuwei Peng, Xuan Liu, Min Huang, Jie Chen, Jiacheng Niu, Yong Chen, Edore Akpokodje, Hui Lin
arXiv AI
Aug 19

Exploring Efficient Open-Vocabulary Segmentation in the Remote Sensing

The paper introduces OVRSISBench, a unified benchmark for open‑vocabulary remote sensing image segmentation, and evaluates existing OVS/OVRSIS models, uncovering their shortcomings in remote sensing contexts. Leveraging insights from this evaluation, the authors propose RSKT‑Seg, a new framework featuring a Multi‑Directional Cost Map Aggregation module, an Efficient Cost Map Fusion transformer, and a Remote Sensing Knowledge Transfer module. Experiments on the benchmark demonstrate that RSKT‑Seg outperforms strong baselines by +3.8 mIoU and +5.9 mACC while achieving twice the inference speed.

By Bingyu Li, Haocheng Dong, Da Zhang, Zhiyuan Zhao, Junyu Gao, Xuelong Li