FULL PROGRAM - Friday, September 19/09/2025
Each paper presentation is allocated 20 minutes (15mn + 5mn QA).
09h00 - 09h05: Welcome
09h05 - 10h00: Keynote - TerraMind: A Foundation Model with Multimodal Understanding - Benedikt Blumenstiel (IBM Research, AI for Climate Impact, Zurich)
10h00 - 11h00 / Session 1 / Multi-Modal Multi-Source
A Multi-Modal Spatial Risk Framework for EV Charging Infrastructure Using Remote Sensing
Oktay Karakuş (Cardiff University)*; Padraig Corcoran (Cardiff University)
Can Multimodal Representation Learning by Alignment preserve modality-specific information?
Romain Thoreau (CNES)*; Jessie Levillain (CNES); Dawa Derksen (CNES)
Forecasting Food Security Hotspots in Africa Using Multi-Branch Deep Learning
Mehtab Alam SYED (CIRAD)*; Asha Seif (UMR TETIS); Roberto Interdonato (CIRAD); Jérémy Lavarenne (CIRAD); Simon Madec (CIRAD)
11h00 - 11h30 / Pause
11h30 - 12h30 / Session 2 / Marine applications and Radiative Transfer Models
Neural Network For Radiative Transfer Emulation
Romain Poirier (Magellium)*; Axel Rochel (Magellium); Jorge Vicent-Servera (Magellium); Chloé Thenoz (Magellium)
A Reliable Remote Sensing-based Framework for Vessel Detection
Abubaker Gaber (TU Chemnitz)*; Stelios P. Neophytides (ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence); Sebastian Heil (TU Chemnitz); Nithinkumar Mirle (TU Chemnitz); Michalis Mavrovouniotis (ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence); Georgios Kavallieratos (NTNU); Georgios Spathoulas (NTNU); Martin Gaedke (TU Chemnitz)
Distribution of phytoplankton assemblages accross fine-scale structures revealed by Earth Observation data: A Mediterranean Sea Case study
Théo Garcia (Aix Marseille University CNRS, Centrale Marseille, I2M, Marseille, France)* et al.
12h30 - 14h00 / Lunch
14h00 - 15h00 / Session 3 / Remote Sensing for Urban Analysis and Land Use classification
Improved fine grained classification of buildings using aerial images and deep learning
Youssef Fouzai (Université d'Orléans)*; Cécile Gracianne (BRGM); Yves Lucas (Université d'Orléans); Caterina Negulescu (BRGM); Gilles Grandjean (BRGM)
Neighbor-Aware Informal Settlement Mapping with Graph Convolutional Networks
Thomas Hallopeau (IRD)*; Joris Guérin (IRD); Laurent Demagistri (IRD); Christovam Barcellos (Fiocruz); Nadine Dessay (IRD)
Kalman-Enhanced Streaming Linear Discriminant Analysis for Land Use Classification in Satellite Imagery
Nicola Francescon (Politecnico di Milano)*; Giacomo Ziffer (Politecnico di Milano); Emanuele Della Valle (Politecnico di Milano)
15h00 - 16h00 / Session 4 / Data-Centric Approaches for Earth Observation
Confidence-Filtered Relevance (CFR): An Interpretable and Uncertainty-Aware Machine Learning Framework for Naturalness Assessment in Satellite Imagery
Ahmed Emam (University of Bonn)*; Ribana Roscher (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
Mitigating representation bias caused by missing pixels in methane plume detection
Julia Wąsala (Leiden University)*; Joannes D. Maasakkers (SRON Space Organization Netherlands); Ilse Aben (SRON Spaze Organization Netherlands); Rochelle Schneider (Phi-lab, ESA-ESRIN); Holger Hoos (Chair of AI Methodology, RWTH Aachen); Mitra Baratchi (Leiden University)
Not every day is a sunny day: Synthetic cloud injection for deep land cover segmentation robustness evaluation across data sources
SARA MOBSITE (IRD)*; Renaud Hostache (IRD); Laure Berti-Équille (IRD); Emmanuel Roux (IRD); Joris Guerin (IRD)
16h00 - 16h15: Announcement of Best Papers and Closing