Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 9

Geometric Coastline Localization using Vision-Language Models

Coastline detection in remote sensing imagery is commonly formulated as a pixel-wise segmentation problem, where the final coastline is extracted from a predicted mask through post-processing. This formulation relegates coastline geometry, the primary representation used in coastal change analysis, to a secondary artifact rather than the learning objective.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 11

Evaluation of Vision-Language Models Across Diverse Coastal Environments

The paper introduces a densely labeled coastal dataset of over 1,000 images from Oahu, Hawaii, featuring 18 semantic classes and 7,400 annotated instances. Seven modern vision‑language models were evaluated using text‑to‑mask, mask‑to‑mask, and mask‑to‑text alignment experiments. Results show that broad landscape classes are recognized more accurately than conventional object and coastal classes, with coastal concepts posing the greatest challenge; however, performance differences are not solely due to environmental context, and alternative textual labels improve recognition of several coastal concepts.

By Seth Knoop, Chad R. Samuelson, Gabriel R. Slade, Brady Moon, Joshua G. Mangelson