UCloudNet: A Residual U-Net with Deep Supervision for Cloud Image Segmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06440v1
• Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 05:15:24 GMT
• Title: UCloudNet: A Residual U-Net with Deep Supervision for Cloud Image Segmentation
• Authors: Yijie Li, Hewei Wang, Shaofan Wang, Yee Hui Lee, Muhammad Salman Pathan, Soumyabrata Dev,
• Abstract summary: We introduce a residual U-Net with deep supervision for cloud segmentation. It provides better accuracy than previous approaches, and with less training consumption.
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• Abstract: Recent advancements in meteorology involve the use of ground-based sky cameras for cloud observation. Analyzing images from these cameras helps in calculating cloud coverage and understanding atmospheric phenomena. Traditionally, cloud image segmentation relied on conventional computer vision techniques. However, with the advent of deep learning, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are increasingly applied for this purpose. Despite their effectiveness, CNNs often require many epochs to converge, posing challenges for real-time processing in sky camera systems. In this paper, we introduce a residual U-Net with deep supervision for cloud segmentation which provides better accuracy than previous approaches, and with less training consumption. By utilizing residual connection in encoders of UCloudNet, the feature extraction ability is further improved.

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