About Me

My research interests are in computer vision and deep learning for remote sensing data.

Awards

• 1st place in the EARTHVISION2021 DynamicEarthNet Weakly-Supervised Multi-Class Change Detection Challenge at CVPRW 2021
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• 3rd place in the NTIRE2021 Multi-modal Aerial View Object Classification Challenge - Track 1 (SAR) at CVPRW 2021
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Invited Presentations

• DigitalxADB: Geospatial Information Technology Solutions (Geographic Information System and Earth Observation) in ADB and Beyond
  Asian Development Bank, October 13, 2021.
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• EARTHVISION2021: DynamicEarthNet
  CVPR Workshops, June 19, 2021.
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Interviews

• Interview with ABCI (Japanese)
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Publications

@article{kato2024_pol,
  author={Kato, Shunya and Saito, Masaki and Ishiguro, Katsuhiko and Cummings, Sol},
  journal={IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters},
  title={PolMERLIN: Self-Supervised Polarimetric Complex SAR Image Despeckling With Masked Networks},
  year={2024},
  volume={21},
  pages={1-5},
  doi={10.1109/LGRS.2024.3352544},
}

@inproceedings{cummings2022_sia,
  author={Cummings, Sol and Kondmann, Lukas and Zhu, Xiao Xiang},
  booktitle={IGARSS 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium},
  title={Siamese Attention U-Net for Multi-Class Change Detection},
  year={2022},
  pages={211-214},
  doi={10.1109/IGARSS46834.2022.9884834},
}

@article{liu2021_nti,
  author={Liu, Jerrick and Inkawhich, Nathan and Nina, Oliver and Timofte, Radu and Jain, Sahil and Lee, Bob and Duan, Yuru and Wei, Wei and Zhang, Lei and Xu, Songzheng and Sun, Yuxuan and Tang, Jiaqi and Geng, Xueli and Ma, Mengru and Li, Gongzhe and Geng, Xueli and Cai, Huanqia and Cai, Chengxue and Cummings, Sol and Miron, Casian and Pasarica, Alexandru and Yang, Cheng-Yen and Hsu, Hung-Min and Cai, Jiarui and Mei, Jie and Yeh, Chia-Ying and Hwang, Jenq-Neng and Xin, Michael and Shangguan, Zhongkai and Zheng, Zihe and Yifei, Xu and Yang, Lehan and Xu, Kele and Feng, Min},
  title={NTIRE 2021 Multi-modal Aerial View Object Classification Challenge},
  publisher={arXiv},
  year={2021},
  doi={10.48550/ARXIV.2107.01189},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.01189},
}

@inproceedings{cummings2020_bui,
  author={Cummings, Sol and Nakamura, Sho and Shimazaki, Yasunobu},
  booktitle={IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium},
  title={Building Change Detection Using Modified Siamese Neural Networks},
  year={2020},
  pages={672-675},
  doi={10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323857},
}