Visual object trackers based on Siamese networks perform well in visual object tracking (VOT); however, degradation of the tracking accuracy occurs when the target has fast motion, large-scale changes, and occlusion. In this study, in order to solve...
Determining vegetation variation and its influential factors in a desert steppe under the impacts of climate change and human activities is crucial and meaningful for improving the understanding of desertification and taking targeted measures in ecol...
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have led to promising advancements in hyperspectral image (HSI) classification; however, traditional CNNs with fixed square convolution kernels are insufficiently flexible t...
Images, as carriers of rich information, are generated, stored, and transmitted in various forms across diverse scenarios. It has become an important issue in the field of information security today to encrypt images to ensure information security. T...
Image-level weakly supervised semantic segmentation is a challenging problem in computer vision and has gained a lot of attention in recent years. Most existing models utilize class activation mapping (CAM) to generate initial pseudo-labels for each...
Digital image correlation techniques are well known for motion extraction from video images. Following a two-stage approach, the pixel-level displacement is first estimated by maximizing the cross-correlation between two images, then the estimation i...
Recently, the deep learning technology has been adopted in the study of traditional village landscape. More precisely, it’s usually used to explore the representation of cultural heritage and the diversity of heritage information. In this study...
The AVHRR aerosol optical depth (AOD) is inverted from measured reflectances in the red band using a statistical correlation of surface reflectance with mid-infrared channel reflectances and a modelling climatology of the aerosol type. For such a sen...
To ensure the security of digital images during transmission and storage, an efficient and secure chaos-based color image encryption scheme using bit-level permutation is proposed. Our proposed image encryption algorithm belongs to symmetric cryptogr...
Confusion, diffusion, and encryption keys affect the quality of image encryption. This research proposes combining bit- and pixel-level permutation and substitution methods based on three advanced chaotic logistic map methods. The three chaotic metho...
Rapid estimation of above-ground biomass (AGB) with high accuracy is essential for monitoring crop growth status and predicting crop yield. Recently, remote sensing techniques using unmanned aerial systems (UASs) have exhibited great potential in obt...
Accurate data on gross domestic product (GDP) at pixel level are needed to understand the dynamics of regional economies. GDP spatialization is the basis of quantitative analysis on economic diversities of different administrative divisions and areas...
In this paper, we propose a new approach for sub-pixel co-registration based on Fourier phase correlation combined with the Harris detector. Due to the limitation of the standard phase correlation method to achieve only pixel-level accuracy, another...
Decision fusion plays a crucial role in achieving a cohesive and unified outcome by merging diverse perspectives. Within the realm of remote sensing classification, these methodologies become indispensable when synthesizing data from multiple sensors...
The goal of this paper was to investigate poverty and inequities that are associated with vegetation. First, we performed a pixel-level linear regression on time-series and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) for 72 United States (U.S.) cit...
Global burned area (BA) datasets from satellite Earth observations provide information for carbon emission and for Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (DGVM) benchmarking. Fire patch identification from pixel-level information recently emerged as an addi...
Spatializing crop yield statistical data with administrative divisions as the basic unit helps reveal the spatial distribution characteristics of crop yield and provides necessary spatial information to support field management and government decisio...
The advent of quantum computers could enable the resolution of complex computational problems that conventional cryptographic protocols find challenging. As a result, the formidable computing capabilities of quantum computers may render all present-d...
In encryption technology, image scrambling is a common processing operation. This paper proposes a quantum version of the 3D Mobius scrambling transform based on the QRCI model, which changes not only the position of pixels but also the gray values....
Mars topographic data, such as digital orthophoto maps (DOMs) and digital elevation models (DEMs) are essential to planetary science and exploration missions. The main objective of our study is to generate a higher resolution DEM using the Mars Expre...
Changes in the dynamics of glaciers must be assessed, as they are important for sea level changes. Glacier velocity is the most important parameter used in glacier dynamics studies. Various image matching techniques, which are implemented in differen...
Hundreds of image encryption schemes have been conducted (as the literature review indicates). The majority of these schemes use pixels as building blocks for confusion and diffusion operations. Pixel-level operations are time-consuming and, thus, no...
The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Day/Night Band (VIIRS/DNB) nighttime light data is a powerful remote sensing data source. However, due to stray light pollution, there is a lack of VIIRS data in mid-high latitudes during the summer, resu...
Moving cast shadows of moving objects significantly degrade the performance of many high-level computer vision applications such as object tracking, object classification, behavior recognition and scene interpretation. Because they possess similar mo...
We propose a deep-learning algorithm that directly compensates for luminance degradation because of the deterioration of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) devices to address the burn-in phenomenon of OLED displays. Conventional compensation circuit...
This paper skillfully incorporates the memristor model into a chaotic system, creating a two-dimensional (2D) hyperchaotic map. The system’s exceptional chaotic performance is verified through methods such as phase diagrams, bifurcation diagram...
Producing high-quality local land cover data can be cost-prohibitive, leaving gaps in reliable estimates of forest cover and loss for environmental policy and planning. Remote sensing data (RSD) offer accessible, globally consistent layers for forest...
For binocular stereo matching techniques, the most advanced method currently is using an iterative structure based on GRUs. Methods in this class have shown high performance on both high-resolution images and standard benchmarks. However, simply repl...
In order to increase the security and robustness of quantum images, this study combined the quantum DNA codec with quantum Hilbert scrambling to offer an enhanced quantum image encryption technique. Initially, to accomplish pixel-level diffusion and...
Wetlands play a vital role in regulating the global carbon cycle, providing biodiversity, and reducing flood risks. These functions maintain ecological balance and ensure human well-being. Timely, accurate monitoring of wetlands is essential, not onl...
The accurate mapping of impervious surfaces is of key significance for various urban applications. Usually, traditional methods extract the proportion image of impervious surfaces from remote sensing images; however, the proportion image cannot speci...
Accurate estimates of growth and structural changes are key for forest management tasks such as determination of optimal rotation times, optimal rotation times, site indices and for identifying areas experiencing difficulties to regenerate. Estimatio...
Efficient and robust evaluation of kernel processing from corn silage is an important indicator to a farmer to determine the quality of their harvested crop. Current methods are cumbersome to conduct and take between hours to days. We present the ado...
The presence of pests is one of the main problems in crop production, and obtaining reliable statistics of pest infestation is essential for pest management. Detection of pests should be automated because human monitoring of pests is time-consuming a...
This study investigates the spatial relationship between population distribution and tree cover loss in Nepal from 2000 to 2020, using satellite-based forest cover and population data along with statistical and geospatial analysis. Two statistical me...
Winter wheat is one of the major crops for global food security. Accurate statistics of its planting area play a crucial role in agricultural policy formulation and resource management. However, the existing semantic segmentation methods for remote s...
Cloud classification is fundamental to advancing climate research and improving weather forecasting. However, existing cloud classification models are constrained by several limitations. For instance, simple statistical methods depend heavily on prio...
To break through the bottleneck in the mapping of the mechanoluminescent (ML) intensity field to the strain field, a quantification method for full-field strain measurement based on pixel-level data fusion is proposed, integrating ML imaging with dig...
With the rapid development of marine business, the intelligent detection of ship targets has become the key to marine safety. However, it is difficult to accurately detect maritime infrared targets due to severe sea clutter interference in strong win...
Semantic change detection has become a key technology for monitoring the evolution of land cover and land use categories at the semantic level. However, existing methods often lack effective information interaction and fail to capture changes at mult...
The rapid and accurate damage assessment of buildings plays a critical role in disaster response. Based on pairs of pre- and post-disaster remote sensing images, effective building damage level assessment can be conducted. However, most existing meth...
Banana is an important cash and food crop worldwide. Recent outbreaks of banana diseases are threatening the global banana industry and smallholder livelihoods. Remote sensing data offer the potential to detect the presence of disease, but formal ana...
Developing countries often have poor monitoring and reporting of weather and crop health, leading to slow responses to droughts and food shortages. Here, I develop satellite analysis methods and software tools to predict crop yields two to four month...
Monitoring ships on water surfaces encounters obstacles such as weather conditions, sunlight, and water ripples, posing significant challenges in accurately detecting target ships in real time. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) offers a viable solution...
The precise tie-points (TPs) on synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are a critical cornerstone in the global digital elevation model (DEM) and digital ortho map (DOM) production process. While there are abundant studies on SAR TPs matching, improve...
In this research, we present the Spatial-Aware Transformer (SAT), an enhanced implementation of the Swin Transformer module, purposed to augment the global modeling capabilities of existing transformer segmentation mechanisms within remote sensing. T...
Information about forest cover and its characteristics are essential in national and international forest inventories, monitoring programs, and reporting activities. Two of the most common forest variables needed to support sustainable forest managem...
The presence of speckles and the absence of discriminative features make it difficult for the pixel-level polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) image classification to achieve more accurate and coherent interpretation results, especially in...
Studies on estimating cumulative fire intensity from spreading wildland fires based on fire radiative energy density (FRED) have primarily been conducted through controlled experiments. The objective of this study was to assess the potential for esti...
For time-series analysis using very-high-resolution (VHR) multi-temporal satellite images, both accurate georegistration to the map coordinates and subpixel-level co-registration among the images should be conducted. However, applying well-known matc...
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