Lightweight Cloud Masking Models for On-Board Inference in Hyperspectral Imaging

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Autori principali: Ali, Mazen, Pereira, António, Gentile, Fabio, Cortines, Aser, Mugel, Sam, Orús, Román, Neophytides, Stelios P., Mavrovouniotis, Michalis
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author Ali, Mazen
Pereira, António
Gentile, Fabio
Cortines, Aser
Mugel, Sam
Orús, Román
Neophytides, Stelios P.
Mavrovouniotis, Michalis
author_facet Ali, Mazen
Pereira, António
Gentile, Fabio
Cortines, Aser
Mugel, Sam
Orús, Román
Neophytides, Stelios P.
Mavrovouniotis, Michalis
contents Cloud and cloud shadow masking is a crucial preprocessing step in hyperspectral satellite imaging, enabling the extraction of high-quality, analysis-ready data. This study evaluates various machine learning approaches, including gradient boosting methods such as XGBoost and LightGBM as well as convolutional neural networks (CNNs). All boosting and CNN models achieved accuracies exceeding 93%. Among the investigated models, the CNN with feature reduction emerged as the most efficient, offering a balance of high accuracy, low storage requirements, and rapid inference times on both CPUs and GPUs. Variations of this version, with only up to 597 trainable parameters, demonstrated the best trade-off in terms of deployment feasibility, accuracy, and computational efficiency. These results demonstrate the potential of lightweight artificial intelligence (AI) models for real-time hyperspectral image processing, supporting the development of on-board satellite AI systems for space-based applications.
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spellingShingle Lightweight Cloud Masking Models for On-Board Inference in Hyperspectral Imaging
Ali, Mazen
Pereira, António
Gentile, Fabio
Cortines, Aser
Mugel, Sam
Orús, Román
Neophytides, Stelios P.
Mavrovouniotis, Michalis
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Cloud and cloud shadow masking is a crucial preprocessing step in hyperspectral satellite imaging, enabling the extraction of high-quality, analysis-ready data. This study evaluates various machine learning approaches, including gradient boosting methods such as XGBoost and LightGBM as well as convolutional neural networks (CNNs). All boosting and CNN models achieved accuracies exceeding 93%. Among the investigated models, the CNN with feature reduction emerged as the most efficient, offering a balance of high accuracy, low storage requirements, and rapid inference times on both CPUs and GPUs. Variations of this version, with only up to 597 trainable parameters, demonstrated the best trade-off in terms of deployment feasibility, accuracy, and computational efficiency. These results demonstrate the potential of lightweight artificial intelligence (AI) models for real-time hyperspectral image processing, supporting the development of on-board satellite AI systems for space-based applications.
title Lightweight Cloud Masking Models for On-Board Inference in Hyperspectral Imaging
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08052