Detection of clouds in sky/cloud and aerial images using moment based texture segmentation
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Abstract
Unmanned aircraft flying beyond line of sight in uncontrolled airspace need to maintain adequate separation from local inclement weather patterns for regulatory compliance and operational safety. Although commercial solutions for `weather avoidance' exist, they are tailored to manned aviation and as such either lack the accuracy or the size, weight, and power (SWaP) requirements of small Unmanned Aerial System (UAS). Detection and ranging to the cloud ceiling is a key component of weather avoidance. Proposed herein is a computer vision approach to cloud detection consisting of feature extraction and machine learning. Six image moments on local texture regions were extracted and fused within a classification algorithm for discrimination of cloud pixels. Three different popular classifiers were evaluated for efficacy. Two publicly available datasets of all-sky images were utilized for training and test datasets. The proposed approach was compared to five well-known thresholding techniques via quantitative analysis. Results indicate that our method consistently outperformed the popular thresholding methods across all tested images. Comparison between the classification techniques indicated random forests to possess the highest training accuracy, while multilayer perceptrons showed better prediction accuracy on the test dataset. Upon extending the method to realistic images including background clutter, the random forest classifier demonstrated the best training accuracy of 100% and the best prediction accuracy of 96%. Although computationally more expensive, the random forest classifier also produced the fewest number of false positives. A sensitivity analysis for window sizes is presented for robust validation of the chosen approach, which showed that detection accuracy improved in proportion to window size at the expense of computation time.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".