Automated classification of satellite data of informal urban settlements

Urban areas are rapidly expanding in developing countries. One of goals of the United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat) is to understand and guide urban development for some developing regions.<br/>Currently, the approaches that UN-Habitat is using cost plenty of workforce, material, and time. Therefore, UN-Habitat is interested in...

Addressing Illumination-Based Domain Shifts in Deep Learning: A Physics-Based Approach

This work investigates how prior knowledge from physics-based reflection models can be used to improve the performance of semantic segmentation models under an illumination-based domain shift. We implement various color invariants as a preprocessing step and find that CNNs trained on these color invariants get stuck in worse local minima...