Discrete Wavelet Transform as a Facilitator for Expressive Latent Space Representation in Variational Autoencoders in Satellite Imagery
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| author | Mahara, Arpan Khan, Md Rezaul Karim Rishe, Naphtali Wang, Wenjia Sadjadi, Seyed Masoud |
| author_facet | Mahara, Arpan Khan, Md Rezaul Karim Rishe, Naphtali Wang, Wenjia Sadjadi, Seyed Masoud |
| contents | Latent Diffusion Models (LDM), a subclass of diffusion models, mitigate the computational complexity of pixel-space diffusion by operating within a compressed latent space constructed by Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), demonstrating significant advantages in Remote Sensing (RS) applications. Though numerous studies enhancing LDMs have been conducted, investigations explicitly targeting improvements within the intrinsic latent space remain scarce. This paper proposes an innovative perspective, utilizing the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) to enhance the VAE's latent space representation, designed for satellite imagery. The proposed method, ExpDWT-VAE, introduces dual branches: one processes spatial domain input through convolutional operations, while the other extracts and processes frequency-domain features via 2D Haar wavelet decomposition, convolutional operation, and inverse DWT reconstruction. These branches merge to create an integrated spatial-frequency representation, further refined through convolutional and diagonal Gaussian mapping into a robust latent representation. We utilize a new satellite imagery dataset housed by the TerraFly mapping system to validate our method. Experimental results across several performance metrics highlight the efficacy of the proposed method at enhancing latent space representation. |
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| spellingShingle | Discrete Wavelet Transform as a Facilitator for Expressive Latent Space Representation in Variational Autoencoders in Satellite Imagery Mahara, Arpan Khan, Md Rezaul Karim Rishe, Naphtali Wang, Wenjia Sadjadi, Seyed Masoud Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence Latent Diffusion Models (LDM), a subclass of diffusion models, mitigate the computational complexity of pixel-space diffusion by operating within a compressed latent space constructed by Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), demonstrating significant advantages in Remote Sensing (RS) applications. Though numerous studies enhancing LDMs have been conducted, investigations explicitly targeting improvements within the intrinsic latent space remain scarce. This paper proposes an innovative perspective, utilizing the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) to enhance the VAE's latent space representation, designed for satellite imagery. The proposed method, ExpDWT-VAE, introduces dual branches: one processes spatial domain input through convolutional operations, while the other extracts and processes frequency-domain features via 2D Haar wavelet decomposition, convolutional operation, and inverse DWT reconstruction. These branches merge to create an integrated spatial-frequency representation, further refined through convolutional and diagonal Gaussian mapping into a robust latent representation. We utilize a new satellite imagery dataset housed by the TerraFly mapping system to validate our method. Experimental results across several performance metrics highlight the efficacy of the proposed method at enhancing latent space representation. |
| title | Discrete Wavelet Transform as a Facilitator for Expressive Latent Space Representation in Variational Autoencoders in Satellite Imagery |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00376 |