arXiv:2511.02831v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The data for remote sensing is constantly acquired, and new data comes from a growing number and diversity of satellites, while the vast majority o...
By Hakob Tamazyan, Ani Vanyan, Alvard Barseghyan, Anna Khosrovyan, Evan Shelhamer, Hrant Khachatrian
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
The paper introduces DOD-SA, a framework for infrared-visible object detection that uses only single-modality annotations. It employs a Collaborative Teacher-Student Network with a single-modality branch and a dual-modality decoupled branch to transfer knowledge across modalities, and a Progressive and Self‑Tuning Training Strategy to refine pseudo‑labels. A Pseudo Label Assigner is also designed to align labels between modalities during training.
By Hang Jin, Chenqiang Gao, Junjie Guo, Fangcen Liu, Qinyao Chang, Kanghui Tian, Deyu Meng
arXiv:2607. 12704v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-label classification assigns several co-occurring labels to each aerial scene, yet deployed models often encounter data distributions different from their training.
By Alaa Almouradi, Erchan Aptoula
arXiv:2610.00693v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Federated learning (FL) has recently attracted increasing attention in remote sensing (RS) since it enables collaborative model training across decentr...
By Bar{\i}\c{s} B\"uy\"ukta\c{s}, Beg\"um Demir
Despite the remarkable progress over the past decades, accurately identifying small objects remains challenging because of their insufficient visual cues. Previous works typically attempt to construct discriminative representation of the small objects.
arXiv:2609.01514v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Historically, retrieving rainfall data from satellite imagery has been the domain of space agencies. However, in recent years, the development of che...
By Andres F. Monsalve, Hernan A. Moreno, Christian D. Kummerow
arXiv:2607.05176v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Small object detection (SOD) remains a challenging task in real-world applications. Despite recent advances, existing detectors remain limited by r...
By Aiwen Liu, Chengguang Zhu, Gang Wang, Dandan Zhu, Haodong Lin, Yan Wang, Huiyu Zhou, Zhengyi Pan
arXiv:2608. 09687v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning (FL) in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations is affected by non-IID data and irregular ground-station visibility, both driven by orbital geometry.
By Satwat Bashir, Tasos Dagiuklas, Muddesar Iqbal
arXiv:2606. 10819v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: RS-MLLMs enable natural-language understanding and spatial reasoning over earth observation imagery.
By Miaoxin Cai, Guanqun Wang, Wei Zhang, Guangyao Zhou, Yin Zhuang, Tong Zhang, Hao Wang, He Chen, Jun Li
arXiv:2608.21254v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Accurate agricultural weed detection in real-world field conditions is essential for precision agriculture, enabling targeted intervention and reduci...
By Nikhilesh Prabhakar, Pranuthi Tenali, Wilfredo Abudeye Fernandez, Shekhar Borah, Athresh Karanam, Erik Blasch, Prabha Sundaravadivel, Sriraam Natarajan
The paper presents a lightweight method to adapt general‑purpose vision‑language models (VLMs) for multispectral and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image understanding. By rendering each observation as five optical views and one SAR view, naming them in the prompt, and applying LoRA to the language network and selected visual transformer blocks, the authors enable VLMs to process band composites, spectral indices, and radar backscatter without retraining a new foundation model. On a balanced six‑class land‑cover benchmark from BigEarthNet‑v2, the adapted Qwen3‑VL achieves a micro F1 of 0.8275, and the same protocol improves four other VLMs and transfers to flood verification and captioning tasks.
"whyItMatters":"The study shows that existing VLMs can be repurposed for multispectral and SAR tasks through simple input rendering and compact LoRA adaptation, avoiding the need for dedicated encoders and domain pretraining."
By Shanji Liu, Kelu Yao, Junxiao Xue, Chenghui Lv, Xiangyang Miao, Yekai Huang, Yaying Chen, Chao Li