I am Professor of Artificial Intelligence in Remote Sensing at Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences where I combine deep learning methods with remote sensing data to enable new applications and interdisciplinary research.
Recent Research
Multimodal Diffusion for Self-Supervised Pretraining
Deep learning models based on diffusion processes have shown great potential in a range of generative tasks, such as image generation. For remote sensing applications, generative models are not that common. The question that we tried to answer is whether diffusion processes can be used to efficiently pretrain models for discriminative tasks?
read moreBen-Ge - Extending Bigearthnet with Geographical and Environmental Data
Multimodal datasets for remote sensing are oftentimes limited to two data modalities, such as multispectral and SAR polarization data. In order to experiment with a much wider range of data modalities, we extended the well-known BigEarthNet dataset to includes a wide range of data modalities.
read moreTraffic Noise Estimation from Satellite Imagery with Deep Learning
Road traffic noise is a global issue that can lead to severe health effects. Despite the ubiquity of traffic noise, its quantification or estimation is complicated and detailed road traffic maps are only available for select countries or areas. We investigate whether it is possible to train a segmentation model to esimate road traffic noise from satellite imagery.
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