Understanding GANs: fundamentals, variants, training challenges, applications, and open problems

Z Ahmad, ZA Jaffri, M Chen, S Bao - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2024 - Springer
Generative adversarial networks (GANs), a novel framework for training generative models
in an adversarial setup, have attracted significant attention in recent years. The two …

[PDF][PDF] An overview on the generation and detection of synthetic and manipulated satellite images

L Abady, ED Cannas, P Bestagini… - … on Signal and …, 2022 - nowpublishers.com
Due to the reduction of technological costs and the increase of satellite launches, satellite
images are becoming more popular and easier to obtain. Besides serving benevolent …

UnCRtainTS: Uncertainty quantification for cloud removal in optical satellite time series

P Ebel, VSF Garnot, M Schmitt… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Clouds and haze often occlude optical satellite images, hindering continuous, dense
monitoring of the Earth's surface. Although modern deep learning methods can implicitly …

A unified framework of cloud detection and removal based on low-rank and group sparse regularizations for multitemporal multispectral images

TY Ji, D Chu, XL Zhao, D Hong - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The existing cloud removal methods either need a cloud mask as prior knowledge or detect
clouds before cloud removal processing, ie, the detection and removal processes are …

Generative adversarial learning in YUV color space for thin cloud removal on satellite imagery

X Wen, Z Pan, Y Hu, J Liu - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Clouds are one of the most serious disturbances when using satellite imagery for ground
observations. The semi-translucent nature of thin clouds provides the possibility of 2D …

Thin cloud removal fusing full spectral and spatial features for Sentinel-2 imagery

J Li, Y Zhang, Q Sheng, Z Wu, B Wang… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multispectral remote sensing images are widely used for monitoring the globe. Although thin
clouds can affect all optical bands, the influences of thin clouds differ with band wavelength …

[HTML][HTML] Deep learning based thin cloud removal fusing vegetation red edge and short wave infrared spectral information for Sentinel-2A imagery

J Li, Z Wu, Z Hu, Z Li, Y Wang, M Molinier - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Thin clouds seriously affect the availability of optical remote sensing images, especially in
visible bands. Short-wave infrared (SWIR) bands are less influenced by thin clouds, but …

Cloudformer: A cloud-removal network combining self-attention mechanism and convolution

P Wu, Z Pan, H Tang, Y Hu - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Optical remote-sensing images have a wide range of applications, but they are often
obscured by clouds, which affects subsequent analysis. Therefore, cloud removal becomes …

Cloud-egan: Rethinking cyclegan from a feature enhancement perspective for cloud removal by combining cnn and transformer

X Ma, Y Huang, X Zhang, MO Pun… - IEEE Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cloud cover presents a major challenge for geoscience research of remote sensing images
with thick clouds causing complete obstruction with information loss while thin clouds …

Deriving non-cloud contaminated sentinel-2 images with RGB and near-infrared bands from sentinel-1 images based on a conditional generative adversarial network

Q Xiong, L Di, Q Feng, D Liu, W Liu, X Zan, L Zhang… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Sentinel-2 images have been widely used in studying land surface phenomena and
processes, but they inevitably suffer from cloud contamination. To solve this critical optical …