Summary of Local Vs. Global: Local Land-use and Land-cover Models Deliver Higher Quality Maps, by Girmaw Abebe Tadesse et al.
Local vs. Global: Local Land-Use and Land-Cover Models Deliver Higher Quality Maps
by Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Caleb Robinson, Charles Mwangi, Esther Maina, Joshua Nyakundi, Luana Marotti, Gilles Quentin Hacheme, Hamed Alemohammad, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
First submitted to arxiv on: 1 Dec 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 proposed data-centric framework employs a teacher-student model setup that utilizes diverse data sources and label examples to produce local land-cover maps, which are crucial for addressing food insecurity by improving agricultural efforts in Africa. The framework trains a high-resolution teacher model on images with a resolution of 0.331 m/pixel and a low-resolution student model on publicly available images with a resolution of 10 m/pixel, with the student model utilizing the teacher model’s output as weak label examples through knowledge transfer. This approach leads to higher quality local maps, achieving improvements in F1 score and Intersection-over-Union compared to global models. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary In a nutshell, scientists have developed a new way to create detailed maps of land use and cover, which is super important for fixing food problems in Africa. They used special computer learning methods that help them make better maps by combining different types of data. This could really help farmers and decision-makers make informed choices about what crops to grow and how to improve agriculture. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » F1 score » Student model » Teacher model
