Summary of Vn-net: Vision-numerical Fusion Graph Convolutional Network For Sparse Spatio-temporal Meteorological Forecasting, by Yutong Xiong et al.
VN-Net: Vision-Numerical Fusion Graph Convolutional Network for Sparse Spatio-Temporal Meteorological Forecasting
by Yutong Xiong, Xun Zhu, Ming Wu, Weiqing Li, Fanbin Mo, Chuang Zhang, Bin Zhang
First submitted to arxiv on: 26 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper introduces Vision-Numerical Fusion Graph Convolutional Network (VN-Net), a novel approach that combines multi-modal data from ground weather stations and satellite images for sparse meteorological forecasting. The VN-Net model utilizes Numerical-GCN (N-GCN) to adaptively capture patterns in spatio-temporal numerical data, Vision-LSTM Network (V-LSTM) to extract features from time series satellite images, and a GCN-based decoder to generate hourly predictions of temperature, relative humidity, and visibility. The authors claim that VN-Net outperforms state-of-the-art models on mean absolute error (MAE) and root mean square error (RMSE) for these forecasting tasks. The paper presents quantitative evaluation metrics to assess the impact of incorporating vision data. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about a new way to make weather forecasts more accurate by combining data from different sources, like ground weather stations and satellite images. It uses special algorithms to analyze this combined data and predict things like temperature and humidity for specific hours. This is helpful because it can help us make better decisions about things like farming or transportation. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Convolutional network » Decoder » Gcn » Lstm » Mae » Multi modal » Temperature » Time series
