CloudSegNet: A Deep Network for Nychthemeron Cloud Image Segmentation

We analyze clouds in the earth's atmosphere using ground-based sky cameras. An accurate segmentation of clouds in the captured sky/cloud image is difficult, owing to the fuzzy boundaries of clouds. Several techniques have been proposed that use color as the discriminatory feature for cloud dete...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2019-04
Main Authors: Soumyabrata Dev, Nautiyal, Atul, Yee Hui Lee, Winkler, Stefan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Clouds
Daytime
Image detection
Image segmentation
Night
Sky
Weight reduction
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Summary:We analyze clouds in the earth's atmosphere using ground-based sky cameras. An accurate segmentation of clouds in the captured sky/cloud image is difficult, owing to the fuzzy boundaries of clouds. Several techniques have been proposed that use color as the discriminatory feature for cloud detection. In the existing literature, however, analysis of daytime and nighttime images is considered separately, mainly because of differences in image characteristics and applications. In this paper, we propose a light-weight deep-learning architecture called CloudSegNet. It is the first that integrates daytime and nighttime (also known as nychthemeron) image segmentation in a single framework, and achieves state-of-the-art results on public databases.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1904.07979