Past events

1st Workshop on Computer Vision for Earth Observation (CV4EO) Applications – WACV2024

Proceedings of published papers submitted to CV4EO: https://openaccess.thecvf.com/WACV2024_workshops/CV4EO 
Hybrid event: all presenters in person, with live streaming of the event for registered participants

Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) integrates methods from spatial sciences (e.g., geographic information systems – GIS) and AI to enable knowledge extraction from big geospatial data. GeoAI is extensively applied in conjunction with Earth Observation (EO) data, which entails capturing information about the Earth’s surface using sensors mounted on e.g. satellites and in-situ instruments. By incorporating advancements from computer vision (CV) on EO data, GeoAI finds extensive applications in human dynamics, precision agriculture, disaster management, humanitarian assistance, and national security. Unlike traditional natural images used in CV benchmarks, EO data presents unique characteristics and challenges that include spatial & temporal awareness, data volumes & diversity, and multimodal reasoning. Importantly, appropriately addressing these challenges hold the potential for groundbreaking applications benefiting human and environmental well-being.

Objectives

Outcomes targeted by this 1st Workshop on Computer Vision for Earth Observation (CV4EO) Applications at WACV’24 include promoting the exchange between computer vision researchers with experts from geoscience domains, as well as bridging the gap between computer vision base research with government agencies (problem owners), national laboratories (applied science) and industry (data providers and solution deployment) in the context of challenges and opportunities related to image understanding methods for EO applications. Since applications include humanitarian assistance, disaster response, precision agriculture, national security missions, environment monitoring, promoting the collaboration across all involved parties can greatly benefit the development of CV-enabled tools that can effectively inform decision making for such cases potentially having direct impact on lives and the environment.

The workshop aims to achieve the following goals:

Program

Hawaii Standard Time (UTC/GMT -10 hours)

January 7th (Sunday), 2024 – Afternoon (PM)

1:00-1:10 Opening remarks
1:10-1:55 Keynote

Transforming Earth Observation Analytics: Advancements and Applications of Foundation Models in Remote Sensing – by Dr. Hamed Alemohammad, Director of the Center for Geospatial Analytics, Clark University

There is a rapid growth in developing foundation models for Earth observations (EO) including multi-modal models that combine inputs from various sensors in Earth orbit. These developments build on the success of deploying various supervised and semi-supervised techniques for EO in the last several years, and publication of a large number of benchmark datasets. In this presentation, I will provide an overview of these benchmarks and their successes. Next, I will review recent advancements in using transformer-based architectures and developing foundation models for EO. In conclusion, I will present the results from the Prithvi foundation model for various downstream tasks including cloud gap filling, flood mapping, land cover/crop type mapping, and burn scar detection.

2:00 – 3:00 – Oral Presentations
Full papers – 12 min with Q&A

Short papers – 8 min with Q&A

3:00-3:30 Coffee Break
3:30-4:10 Keynote

The Role of Earth Observation Image Analysis in Humanitarian Responseby Dr. Kasie Richards, American Red Cross Situational Awareness Lead

A discussion covering the growing need for EO analysis as the frequency of disasters and emergency response increases. With dialogue on the opportunities of EO image analysis in addressing decision support and situation awareness in humanitarian response, including present and future applications. Touching on the challenges in field adoption of EO, CV and other forward leaning research and technology.

4:10-4:55 Roundtable discussion (45min)

Keynote speakers, authors of accepted papers, and members of the audience will have the opportunity to engage in discussions from a predefined set of topics, as well as questions posed by the audience during the event. 

4:55-5:00 Closing remarks

 

Organizers

Advisory Committee 

Program Committee