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Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt

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Representative Papers

Beyond Clear Skies: Synthetic Seasonal and Weather Variations for Real-World Drone Detection

Aug 17, 2026

This study addresses the critical challenge of data scarcity in UAV detection under adverse weather and seasonal variations by introducing SynDroneVision-Weather, the first systematic synthetic dataset for urban environments. Leveraging a game engine for high-fidelity rendering and automatic annotation, this dataset enables controllable environmental perturbations across diverse meteorological and seasonal conditions, facilitating clean-to-adverse comparative analysis. Experimental results demonstrate that SynDroneVision-Weather serves as an effective complement to general synthetic data, significantly enhancing the robustness of YOLO-series models against complex appearance changes. Specifically, it effectively reduces both missed detections and false alarm rates in real-world scenarios. These findings validate the pivotal role of domain-specific synthetic data in bridging the sim-to-real gap and improving detection performance under challenging environmental conditions.

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Early Yield Prediction for Sugar Beet Fields using Satellite Data -- Learnings from Specialized Vision Transformers

Jul 20, 2026

This study addresses the challenge of accurately predicting final sugar beet yield and effectively identifying low-yielding fields during the early growth stage using remote sensing satellite data. To this end, we propose a novel approach that integrates agronomic domain knowledge with machine learning by developing a customized Vision Transformer model based on Sentinel-2 multispectral imagery. Our design employs an exceptionally small patch size and incorporates all available spectral bands, thereby overcoming limitations of conventional architectures. We further introduce an innovative rank-based mechanism for early detection of underperforming fields, which identifies anomalous plots without requiring absolute yield labels. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method consistently detects a substantial proportion of low-yield areas during the initial growth phases across multiple years, exhibiting strong generalization capability and practical applicability.

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Beyond Clear Skies: Synthetic Seasonal and Weather Variations for Real-World Drone Detection

Aug 17, 2026

This study addresses the critical challenge of data scarcity in UAV detection under adverse weather and seasonal variations by introducing SynDroneVision-Weather, the first systematic synthetic dataset for urban environments. Leveraging a game engine for high-fidelity rendering and automatic annotation, this dataset enables controllable environmental perturbations across diverse meteorological and seasonal conditions, facilitating clean-to-adverse comparative analysis. Experimental results demonstrate that SynDroneVision-Weather serves as an effective complement to general synthetic data, significantly enhancing the robustness of YOLO-series models against complex appearance changes. Specifically, it effectively reduces both missed detections and false alarm rates in real-world scenarios. These findings validate the pivotal role of domain-specific synthetic data in bridging the sim-to-real gap and improving detection performance under challenging environmental conditions.

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Early Yield Prediction for Sugar Beet Fields using Satellite Data -- Learnings from Specialized Vision Transformers

Jul 20, 2026

This study addresses the challenge of accurately predicting final sugar beet yield and effectively identifying low-yielding fields during the early growth stage using remote sensing satellite data. To this end, we propose a novel approach that integrates agronomic domain knowledge with machine learning by developing a customized Vision Transformer model based on Sentinel-2 multispectral imagery. Our design employs an exceptionally small patch size and incorporates all available spectral bands, thereby overcoming limitations of conventional architectures. We further introduce an innovative rank-based mechanism for early detection of underperforming fields, which identifies anomalous plots without requiring absolute yield labels. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method consistently detects a substantial proportion of low-yield areas during the initial growth phases across multiple years, exhibiting strong generalization capability and practical applicability.

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