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preprint2026arXiv

Cross-Domain Transfer of Hyperspectral Foundation Models

Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) semantic segmentation typically relies on in-domain training, but limited data availability often restricts model performance in real-world applications. Current approaches to leverage foundation models in proximal sensing use cross-modality techniques, bridging RGB and HSI to exploit vision foundation models. However, these methods either discard spectral information or introduce architectural complexity. We propose cross-domain transfer as an alternative, reusing HSI foundation models - originally trained in remote sensing - for proximal sensing applications. By eliminating the need to bridge modality gaps, our approach preserves spectral information while maintaining a simple architecture. Using the HS3-Bench benchmark, we systematically evaluate and compare conventional in-domain, in-modality training, cross-modality transfer and cross-domain transfer strategies. Our results demonstrate that cross-domain transfer achieves large performance improvements over in-domain, in-modality training, reduces the performance gap to cross-modality approaches and maintains strong performance in limited data settings. Thus, this work advances more effective HSI semantic segmentation in diverse applications.

preprint2022arXiv

HDC-MiniROCKET: Explicit Time Encoding in Time Series Classification with Hyperdimensional Computing

Classification of time series data is an important task for many application domains. One of the best existing methods for this task, in terms of accuracy and computation time, is MiniROCKET. In this work, we extend this approach to provide better global temporal encodings using hyperdimensional computing (HDC) mechanisms. HDC (also known as Vector Symbolic Architectures, VSA) is a general method to explicitly represent and process information in high-dimensional vectors. It has previously been used successfully in combination with deep neural networks and other signal processing algorithms. We argue that the internal high-dimensional representation of MiniROCKET is well suited to be complemented by the algebra of HDC. This leads to a more general formulation, HDC-MiniROCKET, where the original algorithm is only a special case. We will discuss and demonstrate that HDC-MiniROCKET can systematically overcome catastrophic failures of MiniROCKET on simple synthetic datasets. These results are confirmed by experiments on the 128 datasets from the UCR time series classification benchmark. The extension with HDC can achieve considerably better results on datasets with high temporal dependence without increasing the computational effort for inference.

preprint2021arXiv

Hyperdimensional computing as a framework for systematic aggregation of image descriptors

Image and video descriptors are an omnipresent tool in computer vision and its application fields like mobile robotics. Many hand-crafted and in particular learned image descriptors are numerical vectors with a potentially (very) large number of dimensions. Practical considerations like memory consumption or time for comparisons call for the creation of compact representations. In this paper, we use hyperdimensional computing (HDC) as an approach to systematically combine information from a set of vectors in a single vector of the same dimensionality. HDC is a known technique to perform symbolic processing with distributed representation in numerical vectors with thousands of dimensions. We present a HDC implementation that is suitable for processing the output of existing and future (deep-learning based) image descriptors. We discuss how this can be used as a framework to process descriptors together with additional knowledge by simple and fast vector operations. A concrete outcome is a novel HDC-based approach to aggregate a set of local image descriptors together with their image positions in a single holistic descriptor. The comparison to available holistic descriptors and aggregation methods on a series of standard mobile robotics place recognition experiments shows a 20% improvement in average performance compared to runner-up and 3.6x better worst-case performance.

preprint2020arXiv

Graph-based non-linear least squares optimization for visual place recognition in changing environments

Visual place recognition is an important subproblem of mobile robot localization. Since it is a special case of image retrieval, the basic source of information is the pairwise similarity of image descriptors. However, the embedding of the image retrieval problem in this robotic task provides additional structure that can be exploited, e.g. spatio-temporal consistency. Several algorithms exist to exploit this structure, e.g., sequence processing approaches or descriptor standardization approaches for changing environments. In this paper, we propose a graph-based framework to systematically exploit different types of additional structure and information. The graphical model is used to formulate a non-linear least squares problem that can be optimized with standard tools. Beyond sequences and standardization, we propose the usage of intra-set similarities within the database and/or the query image set as additional source of information. If available, our approach also allows to seamlessly integrate additional knowledge about poses of database images. We evaluate the system on a variety of standard place recognition datasets and demonstrate performance improvements for a large number of different configurations including different sources of information, different types of constraints, and online or offline place recognition setups.

preprint2020arXiv

Unsupervised Learning Methods for Visual Place Recognition in Discretely and Continuously Changing Environments

Visual place recognition in changing environments is the problem of finding matchings between two sets of observations, a query set and a reference set, despite severe appearance changes. Recently, image comparison using CNN-based descriptors showed very promising results. However, existing experiments from the literature typically assume a single distinctive condition within each set (e.g., reference: day, query: night). We demonstrate that as soon as the conditions change within one set (e.g., reference: day, query: traversal daytime-dusk-night-dawn), different places under the same condition can suddenly look more similar than same places under different conditions and state-of-the-art approaches like CNN-based descriptors fail. This paper discusses this practically very important problem of in-sequence condition changes and defines a hierarchy of problem setups from (1) no in-sequence changes, (2) discrete in-sequence changes, to (3) continuous in-sequence changes. We will experimentally evaluate the effect of these changes on two state-of-the-art CNN-descriptors. Our experiments emphasize the importance of statistical standardization of descriptors and shows its limitations in case of continuous changes. To address this practically most relevant setup, we investigate and experimentally evaluate the application of unsupervised learning methods using two available PCA-based approaches and propose a novel clustering-based extension of the statistical normalization.