PRRS 2020/2021

The International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) Technical Committee 7 (TC-7 Remote Sensing and Mapping) organizes the 11th IAPR International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Remote Sensing (PRRS 2020/2021). This workshop is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2020) (https://www.icpr2020.it/). The workshop is sponsored by IAPR and International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS).

Aims and Scope

As one of the flagship events of the International Association for Pattern Recognition, Pattern Recognition in Remote Sensing Workshop serves as an event bringing together researchers from both pattern recognition and remote sensing, with emphasis on the application of pattern recognition methods to remotely sensed data. The steady progress in the development of new remote sensing devices and remote sensing technology has led to ever increasing data and new challenges. Thus, need arises to apply the latest methods of machine learning and pattern recognition for automated analysis of this kind of data. This workshop will provide an ideal forum for spreading and exchanging the latest experiences of international researchers. Topics might be related to a large range of topics, including, but not limited to:
– Hyperspectral and multispectral image analysis
– Extraction, selection, learning, and reduction of features
– Deep learning for Earth observation data
– Clustering
– Active and transfer learning
– Multi-modal and multi-temporal analysis
– Image analysis of SAR and airborne thermal data
– Recognition of man-made objects from aerial and space platforms
– Novel pattern recognition tasks in remote sensing applications
– Technical reviews on related topics

Program : January 10, 2021 (ONLINE EVENT)

14:00 Welcome

Ribana Roscher (University of Bonn), Gabriele Cavallaro (FZ Jülich)

14:10 – 15:00 Keynote

Beyond Labels: Weakly-supervised, Continual and Semi-supervised Learning for Earth Observation
Bertrand Le Saux (European Space Agency)
(live talk + Q&A)
abstract        slides

15:10 – 16:30 Q&A Session 1
(pre-recorded videos + live Q&A)

Remembering Both the Machine and the Crowd when Sampling Points: Active Learning for Semantic Segmentation of ALS Point Clouds
Michael Kölle (University of Stuttgart), Volker Walter (University of Stuttgart), Stefan Schmohl (University of Stuttgart), Uwe Sörgel (University of Stuttgart)
slides         video

Towards Urban Tree Recognition in Airborne Point Clouds with Deep 3D Single-Shot Detectors
Stefan Schmohl (University of Stuttgart), Michael Kölle (University of Stuttgart), Uwe Sörgel (University of Stuttgart)
slides         video

Shared-space Autoencoders with Randomized Skip Connections for Building Footprint Detection with Missing Views
Giannis Ashiotis (The Cyprus Institute), James Oldfield (The Cyprus Institute), Charalambos Chrysostomou (The Cyprus Institute), Theodoros Christoudias (The Cyprus Institute), Mihalis Nicolaou (The Cyprus Institute)
slides         video

Assessment of CNN-based Methods for Poverty Estimation from Satellite Images
Robin Jarry (LIRMM), Marc Chaumont (LIRMM), Laure Berti-Equille (IRD), Gérard Subsol (LIRMM)
slides         video

16:30 – 16:50 Break

16:50 – 17:50 Q&A Session 2
(pre-recorded videos + live Q&A)

Using a binary diffractive optical element to increase the imaging system depth of field in UAV remote sensing tasks
Pavel Serafimovich (IPSI RAS), Alexey Dzyuba (ITMO University), Artem Nikonorov (Samara State Aerospace University), Nikolay Kazanskiy (IPSI RAS)
slides         video

Self-supervised pre-training enhances change detection in Sentinel-2 imagery
Marrit Leenstra (AlmavivA), Diego Marcos (Wageningen University), Francesca Bovolo (Fondazione Bruno Kessler), Devis Tuia (EPFL)
slides         video

Early and Late Fusion of Multiple Modalities in Sentinel Imagery and Social Media Retrieval
Wei Yao (German Aerospace Center), Anastasia Moumtzidou (CERTH-ITI), Dumitru Octavian (German Aerospace Center), Stelios Andreadis (CERTH-ITI), Ilias Gialampoukidis (CERTH-ITI), Stefanos Vrochidis (CERTH-ITI), Mihai Datcu (German Aerospace Center), Yiannis  Kompatsiaris (CERTH-ITI)
slides         video

17:50 – 18:00 Final remarks

Ribana Roscher (University of Bonn), Gabriele Cavallaro (FZ Jülich)

Organizers

Ribana Roscher, University of Bonn, Germany
Gabriele Cavallaro, FZ Jülich, Germany
Jie Shan, Purdue University, USA
Eckart Michaelsen, Fraunhofer-IOSB, Germany
Uwe Stilla, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany

Program Committee

Selim Aksoy, Bilkent University, Turkey
John Ball, Mississippi State University, USA
Jón Atli Benediktsson, University of Iceland, Iceland
Lorenzo Bruzzone, University of Trento, Italy
Jocelyn Chanussot, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France
David Clausi, University of Waterloo, Canada
Melba Crawford, Purdue University, USA
Fabio Dell’Acqua, University of Pavia, Italy
Jenny Q. Du, Mississippi State University, USA
Paolo Gamba, University of Pavia, Italy
Surya Durbha, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Xiangyun Hu, Wuhan University, China
Michael Kampffmeyer, University of Tromsø, Norway
John Kerekes, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Sébastien Lefèvre, Université de Bretagne Sud / IRISA, France
Peijun Li, Peking University, China
Helmut Mayer, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany
Farid Melgani, University of Trento, Italy
Gabriele Moser, University of Genoa, Italy
Antonio Plaza, University of Extremadura, Italy
Franz Rottensteiner, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Michael Schmitt, DLR Munich, Germany
Xiaohua Tong, Tongji University, China
Devis Tuia, Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands
Michele Volpi, Swiss Data Science Center, Switzerland
Björn Waske, University of Osnabrueck, Germany
Jan Dirk Wegner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Martin Weinmann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Lexie Yang, Oak Ridge National Laboratoy, USA
Xuezhi Yang, University of Waterloo, Canada
Alper Yilmaz, Ohio State University, USA