Summary of Oreole-fm: Successes and Challenges Toward Billion-parameter Foundation Models For High-resolution Satellite Imagery, by Philipe Dias and Aristeidis Tsaris and Jordan Bowman and Abhishek Potnis and Jacob Arndt and H. Lexie Yang and Dalton Lunga
OReole-FM: successes and challenges toward billion-parameter foundation models for high-resolution satellite imagery
by Philipe Dias, Aristeidis Tsaris, Jordan Bowman, Abhishek Potnis, Jacob Arndt, H. Lexie Yang, Dalton Lunga
First submitted to arxiv on: 25 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
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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 proposes a novel approach to pretraining foundation models (FMs) for remote sensing (RS) imagery, leveraging high-performance computing resources and large-scale datasets. By scaling up FMs to billions of parameters, the authors demonstrate the emergence of new abilities, including improved performance on image classification, semantic segmentation, and object detection tasks. The study assesses the impact of data scaling on model performance, highlighting its importance for effective model scaling. Additionally, the paper introduces a novel TIU pretraining dataset, discusses model initialization techniques, and provides best practices for training and benchmarking larger FMs. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about using really powerful computers to train special kinds of artificial intelligence models that can help us better understand satellite images. These models are important because they can help us detect things like buildings or roads on the ground from far away. The authors show that by making these models bigger and more powerful, we can get even better results. They also introduce a new way to prepare data for training these models and share their approach with others who want to use similar technology. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Image classification » Object detection » Pretraining » Semantic segmentation
