PatchMatch — our work on cross-sensor matching of marine litter patches — has been accepted as a poster at the ECCV 2026 Marine Vision Workshop. The paper is authored by Gabrielė Tijūnaitytė, Marc Rußwurm, and Emanuele Dalsasso. Read more →
Our perspective paper “Earth Embeddings: Toward AI-centric Representations of our Planet“ has been published in the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine. We argue that Earth Embeddings represent the next abstraction layer for geospatial AI — shared representations of our planet learned from satellite imagery, maps, elevation, climate, and other geospatial data. Read more →
Marc Rußwurm will be on parental leave from (approximately) May 1st until September 2026. Responses will be delayed.
A paper led by Arjun Rao with Ruth Crasto, Tessa Ooms, David Rolnick, Konstantin Klemmer, and Marc Rußwurm, “Localized, High-resolution Geographic Representations with Slepian Functions“, has been accepted as a regular paper at ICML 2026.
The paper “Exploring Transferability of Plastic-Water Hyacinth Interaction and Detection in Rivers” has been accepted for publication in Cell iScience. The paper was led by Giel Hagenbeek in collaboration with Tim H.M. van Emmerik, Tianlong Jia, Pummarin Khamdahsag, Kittiphon Boonma, Riccardo Taormina, and Thomas Mani.
Giel also wrote a blog post about his field experiences with the River Cleaners of Bangkok and the Yellow Boats from the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration — read it here.