Summary of Graph Dual-stream Convolutional Attention Fusion For Precipitation Nowcasting, by Lorand Vatamany et al.
Graph Dual-stream Convolutional Attention Fusion for Precipitation Nowcasting
by Lorand Vatamany, Siamak Mehrkanoon
First submitted to arxiv on: 15 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary Medium Difficulty summary: This paper presents a novel approach to precipitation nowcasting, which is crucial for applications such as flood prediction and disaster management. The authors reformulate this task as a spatiotemporal graph sequence problem and propose Graph Dual-stream Convolutional Attention Fusion (GDCAF), a new extension of the graph attention network. GDCAF employs distinct attention mechanisms for spatial and temporal interactions, capturing their unique dynamics. A gated fusion module integrates both streams, leveraging spatial and temporal information for improved predictive accuracy. The authors also incorporate depthwise-separable convolutions to refine local feature extraction and efficiently manage high-dimensional inputs. The model is evaluated using seven years of precipitation data from Copernicus Climate Change Services, covering Europe and neighboring regions. Experimental results demonstrate the superior performance of GDCAF compared to other models. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Low Difficulty summary: This paper helps predict rain and storms more accurately. Currently, most predictions are made for specific areas, but this doesn’t account for connections between different places. The authors propose a new way to do this by looking at both space and time together. They use a special kind of attention mechanism that focuses on spatial and temporal patterns in the data. This allows them to make more accurate predictions about where it will rain or storm next. The model is tested using real-world precipitation data from Europe and surrounding areas, showing that it performs better than other models. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Attention * Feature extraction * Graph attention network * Spatiotemporal
