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Physics-Informed Feature Engineering 1D-CNN for Multilayer Cloud Detection from Geostationary Satellites

arXiv:2607. 16270v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multilayer cloud detection from active--passive observation is vital for numerical weather prediction.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 2

Predicting Subsurface Abnormalities Growth using Physics-Informed Neural Networks

The paper introduces a Physics‑Informed Neural Network (PINN) tailored for predicting Ground‑Penetrating Radar (GPR) data, integrating electromagnetic wave propagation physics into a deep learning framework. The architecture combines a CNN, spatial feature channel attention, ConvLSTM, and temporal feature frame attention to extract relevant visual and temporal features. Results show improved accuracy in forecasting GPR data, aiding assessments of bridge deck conditions and other civil infrastructure evaluations.

By Mehrdad Shafiei Dizaji, Hoda Azari
arXiv Computer Vision
6d ago

CSCWD: Cross-Scale Channel-wise Knowledge Distillation for Lightweight Tiny Object Detection on Edge Devices

The paper introduces Cross-Scale Channel-wise Knowledge Distillation (CSCWD), a training-time framework that transfers high‑resolution spatial representations from a YOLO11m‑P2 teacher to a lightweight YOLO11n student without changing the student’s inference architecture. CSCWD aligns teacher P2 features with student P3 while also applying same‑scale distillation at deeper pyramid levels, yielding a 2.92‑point mAP@0.5 improvement over the baseline and a 2.09‑point gain over same‑scale distillation alone. In zero‑shot tests on DUT‑Anti‑UAV and on a Raspberry Pi 5, the 2.58‑million‑parameter student reaches 50.32% mAP@0.5 at 82.32 ms latency (12.15 fps) with negligible runtime or memory increase.

By Amir Zamani, Zeinab Ghasemi-Naraghi
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 18

A Low-Cost IoT Device for Environmental Monitoring and Embedded Solar Forecasting with On-Device Incremental Learning

arXiv:2608. 14698v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hyperlocal meteorological sensing is essential for accurate solar photovoltaic forecasting, yet professional-grade meteorological stations require investments easily exceeding 1000~USD per node, making distributed deployments economically inaccessible.

By Erick Michel Lara Pinal, Abhinav Das, Stephan Schl\"uter
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 17

Modular Deep Learning Mechanisms for Auditable Next-Day Wildfire Spread Prediction

The paper presents modular deep learning augmentations for next‑day wildfire spread prediction, including wind‑ and slope‑conditioned attention biases, physics‑feature retrieval‑augmented output correction, and fire‑conditioned dual‑stream gating. These modules are evaluated on five backbone models using the Next Day Wildfire Spread benchmark, with staged ablations, directional audits, retrieval perturbations, calibration measures, and computational comparisons. The best augmented SwinUNETR model achieves an F1 score of 0.4216 and an AUC‑PR of 0.3673, while a mixed ensemble reaches 0.4292 and 0.3790, demonstrating that predictive performance, operational trustworthiness, and computational practicality can be simultaneously improved.

By Miguel Esparza, Aydin Ayanzadeh Ahmad Mousavi, Ali Mostafavi