U-Net with Hadamard Transform and DCT Latent Spaces for Next-day Wildfire Spread Prediction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11672v1
• Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2026 07:45:53 GMT
• Title: U-Net with Hadamard Transform and DCT Latent Spaces for Next-day Wildfire Spread Prediction
• Authors: Yingyi Luo, Shuaiang Rong, Adam Watts, Ahmet Enis Cetin,
• Abstract summary: We develop a lightweight tool for next-day wildfire spread prediction using multimodal satellite data as input.<n>Deep learning model, which we call Transform Domain Fusion UNet, incorporates trainable Hadamard Transform and Discrete Cosine Transform layers.<n>We show that the proposed latent space fusion model balances accuracy and efficiency under a lightweight setting.
• Score: 0.6999740786886536
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We developed a lightweight and computationally efficient tool for next-day wildfire spread prediction using multimodal satellite data as input. The deep learning model, which we call Transform Domain Fusion UNet (TD-FusionUNet), incorporates trainable Hadamard Transform and Discrete Cosine Transform layers that apply two-dimensional transforms, enabling the network to capture essential "frequency" components in orthogonalized latent spaces. Additionally, we introduce custom preprocessing techniques, including random margin cropping and a Gaussian mixture model, to enrich the representation of the sparse pre-fire masks and enhance the model's generalization capability. The TD-FusionUNet is evaluated on two datasets which are the Next-Day Wildfire Spread dataset released by Google Research in 2023, and WildfireSpreadTS dataset. Our proposed TD-FusionUNet achieves an F1 score of 0.591 with 370k parameters, outperforming the UNet baseline using ResNet18 as the encoder reported in the WildfireSpreadTS dataset while using substantially fewer parameters. These results show that the proposed latent space fusion model balances accuracy and efficiency under a lightweight setting, making it suitable for real time wildfire prediction applications in resource limited environments.

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