Summary of Vision-language Models Meet Meteorology: Developing Models For Extreme Weather Events Detection with Heatmaps, by Jian Chen et al.
Vision-Language Models Meet Meteorology: Developing Models for Extreme Weather Events Detection with Heatmaps
by Jian Chen, Peilin Zhou, Yining Hua, Dading Chong, Meng Cao, Yaowei Li, Zixuan Yuan, Bing Zhu, Junwei Liang
First submitted to arxiv on: 14 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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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 redefines Extreme Weather Events Detection (EWED) as a Visual Question Answering (VQA) problem, introducing a more precise and automated solution. It leverages Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to process visual and textual data, enhancing the analysis of weather heatmaps. The authors introduce ClimateIQA, a meteorological VQA dataset, and propose Sparse Position and Outline Tracking (SPOT), an innovative technique for capturing color contours in heatmaps. They also present Climate-Zoo, a collection of meteorological VLMs adapted to climate science applications. Experiment results show that models from Climate-Zoo outperform state-of-the-art general VLMs, achieving high accuracy in EWED verification. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps predict extreme weather events more accurately and quickly. It uses special computer models to analyze maps of the weather and answer questions about what’s happening. The current way of doing this is slow and can be wrong, so the authors came up with a new approach that uses machine learning. They created a special dataset and model that work together to improve the accuracy of the predictions. This could help save lives and protect important infrastructure. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Machine learning » Question answering » Tracking
