The DownLinQ: Complete Index

The DownLinQ was the blog of In-Q-Tel CosmiQ Works from 2016 through 2021.

2021

Closing Time: CosmiQ Works is Closing Down and Ending its Leadership of SpaceNet

by Adam Van Etten ~ Mar 11, 2021

SpaceNet 7 Results: arXiv Paper and Winning Model Release

by Adam Van Etten ~ Feb 16, 2021

A Closer Look at the SpaceNet Change and Object Tracking (SCOT) Metric

by Daniel Hogan ~ Feb 8, 2021

SpaceNet 7 Results: Overachieving Pixels

by Adam Van Etten ~ Jan 29, 2021

2020

SpaceNet 7 Results: 'Tis the Season

by Adam Van Etten ~ Dec 17, 2020

The SpaceNet 7 Multi-Temporal Urban Development Challenge: Announcing the Winners

by Adam Van Etten ~ Dec 2, 2020

Deploying the SpaceNet 7 Baseline on AWS

by Daniel Hogan ~ Sep 25, 2020

SpaceNet 6: Expanded Dataset Release

by Jake Shermeyer and Daniel Hogan ~ Sep 23, 2020

The SpaceNet 7 Multi-Temporal Urban Development Challenge Algorithmic Baseline

by Adam Van Etten ~ Aug 27, 2020

You Only Look Once - Multi-Faceted Object Detection w/ RarePlanes

by Ari Chadda ~ Aug 21, 2020

Solaris Model Deployment: From Start to Finish

by Roshan Ram ~ Aug 14, 2020

The SpaceNet Change and Object Tracking (SCOT) Metric

by Daniel Hogan and Adam Van Etten ~ Aug 13, 2020

The Machine Learning Utility Manifold for Satellite Imagery

by Adam Van Etten ~ Aug 12, 2020

SpaceNet Turns Four

by Ryan Lewis ~ Aug 10, 2020

The SpaceNet 7 Multi-Temporal Urban Development Challenge: Dataset Release

by Adam Van Etten ~ Aug 6, 2020

SpaceNet 6: Winning Model Release

by Jake Shermeyer ~ Jul 29, 2020

SpaceNet 6: Data Fusion and Colorization

by Jake Shermeyer ~ Jul 22, 2020

Introducing the Solaris Multimodal Preprocessing Library

by Daniel Hogan ~ Jul 16, 2020

Announcing SpaceNet 7: The Multi-Temporal Urban Development Challenge

by Adam Van Etten ~ Jul 13, 2020

SpaceNet 6: Exploring Foundational Mapping at Scale

by Jake Shermeyer ~ Jun 30, 2020

SpaceNet 6: A First Look at Model Performance

by Jake Shermeyer ~ Jun 15, 2020

RarePlanes - Dataset, Paper, and Code Release

by Jake Shermeyer ~ Jun 9, 2020

SpaceNet 6: Announcing the Winners

by Jake Shermeyer ~ Jun 4, 2020

Time-optimized Evacuation Scenarios Via Satellite Imagery

by Adam Van Etten ~ May 26, 2020

Road Network and Travel Time Extraction from Multiple Look Angles with SpaceNet Data

by Adam Van Etten ~ May 21, 2020

RarePlanes - Exploring the Value of Synthetic Data: Part 2

by Jake Shermeyer ~ Apr 22, 2020

RarePlanes - Exploring the Value of Synthetic Data: Part 1

by Jake Shermeyer ~ Apr 14, 2020

Deploying the SpaceNet 6 Baseline on AWS

by Adam Van Etten and Nick Weir ~ Mar 30, 2020

SpaceNet 6 Challenge Launch

by Jake Shermeyer ~ Mar 16, 2020

The SpaceNet 6 Baseline

by Daniel Hogan ~ Mar 5, 2020

SpaceNet 5 Winning Model Release: End of the Road

by Adam Van Etten ~ Mar 3, 2020

SAR 201: An Introduction to Synthetic Aperture Radar, Part 2

by Daniel Hogan and Jason Brown ~ Feb 13, 2020

SpaceNet 6: Dataset Release

by Jake Shermeyer ~ Feb 10, 2020

SAR 101: An Introduction to Synthetic Aperture Radar

by Daniel Hogan and Jason Brown ~ Feb 5, 2020

SpaceNet 5 Results Deep Dive Part 3: The APLS Sauce

by Adam Van Etten ~ Jan 29, 2020

RarePlanes - Training our Baselines and Initial Results

by Jake Shermeyer ~ Jan 27, 2020

SpaceNet 5 Results Deep Dive Part 2: APLS to APLS

by Adam Van Etten ~ Jan 23, 2020

Viewing the world through a straw, Part 2

by Nick Weir, JJ BenJoseph, and Dylan George ~ Jan 16, 2020

Announcing SpaceNet 6: Multi-Sensor All Weather Mapping

by Jake Shermeyer ~ Jan 14, 2020

Viewing the world through a straw

by Nick Weir, JJ BenJoseph, and Dylan George ~ Jan 7, 2020

2019

SpaceNet 5 Results Deep Dive Part 1 - Geographic Diversity

by Adam Van Etten ~ Dec 18, 2019

RarePlanes - An Introduction

by Jake Shermeyer ~ Dec 10, 2019

Announcing the Winners of the SpaceNet 5 Challenge

by Adam Van Etten ~ Nov 26, 2019

The SpaceNet 5 Baseline - Part 3: Extracting Road Speed Vectors from Satellite Imagery

by Adam Van Etten ~ Oct 17, 2019

Robustness of Limited Training Data: Part 5

by Daniel Hogan ~ Oct 16, 2019

The SpaceNet 5 Baseline - Part 2: Training a Road Speed Segmentation Model

by Adam Van Etten ~ Oct 9, 2019

The SpaceNet 5 Baseline - Part 1: Imagery and Label Preparation

by Adam Van Etten ~ Oct 3, 2019

Robustness of Limited Training Data: Part 4

by Daniel Hogan ~ Sep 25, 2019

Robustness of Limited Training Data: Part 3

by Daniel Hogan ~ Sep 17, 2019

Accelerating your geospatial deep learning pipeline with fine-tuning

by Nick Weir ~ Sep 11, 2019

Computer Vision With OpenStreetMap and SpaceNet - A Comparison

by Adam Van Etten ~ Sep 9, 2019

SpaceNet 5 Dataset Release

by Adam Van Etten ~ Aug 22, 2019

Inferring Route Travel Times with SpaceNet

by Adam Van Etten ~ Aug 9, 2019

Beyond Infrastructure Mapping - Finding Vehicles with Solaris

by Jake Shermeyer ~ Aug 1, 2019

Extracting Road Networks at Scale with SpaceNet

by Adam Van Etten ~ Jul 26, 2019

Announcing Solaris: an open source Python library for analyzing overhead imagery with machine learning

by Nick Weir ~ Jul 23, 2019

Robustness of Limited Training Data: Part 2

by Daniel Hogan ~ Jul 18, 2019

Robustness of Limited Training Data for Building Footprint Identification: Part 1

by Daniel Hogan ~ Jul 9, 2019

Super-Resolution and Object Detection: A Love Story- Epilogue

by Jake Shermeyer and Adam Van Etten ~ Jun 26, 2019

Announcing SpaceNet 5: Road Networks and Optimized Routing

by Adam Van Etten ~ Jun 17, 2019

Giving SIMRDWN a Spin, Part II

by Adam Van Etten ~ May 2, 2019

The good and the bad in the SpaceNet Off-Nadir Building Footprint Extraction Challenge

by Nick Weir ~ Feb 27, 2019

A deep dive into the SpaceNet 4 winning algorithms

by Nick Weir ~ Feb 21, 2019

The SpaceNet Challenge Off-Nadir Buildings: Introducing the winners

by Nick Weir ~ Jan 28, 2019

Giving SIMRDWN a Spin, Part I

by Adam Van Etten ~ Jan 17, 2019

Super-Resolution and Object Detection: A Love Story- Part 4

by Jake Shermeyer and Adam Van Etten ~ Jan 7, 2019

2018

Super-Resolution and Object Detection: A Love Story- Part 3

by Jake Shermeyer and Adam Van Etten ~ Dec 17, 2018

Super-Resolution and Object Detection: A Love Story- Part 2

by Jake Shermeyer and Adam Van Etten ~ Nov 15, 2018

Challenges with SpaceNet 4 off-nadir satellite imagery: Look angle and target azimuth angle

by Nick Weir ~ Nov 9, 2018

Super-Resolution and Object Detection: A Love Story - Part 1

by Jake Shermeyer and Adam Van Etten ~ Nov 6, 2018

A baseline model for the SpaceNet 4: Off-Nadir Building Detection Challenge

by Nick Weir ~ Oct 29, 2018

SIMRDWN: Adapting Multiple Object Detection Frameworks for Satellite Imagery Applications

by Adam Van Etten ~ Oct 25, 2018

Introducing the SpaceNet Off-Nadir Imagery and Buildings Dataset

by David Lindenbaum ~ Oct 23, 2018

Car Detection Over Large Areas With YOLT and Zanzibar Open Aerial Imagery

by Adam Van Etten ~ Aug 29, 2018

Puerto Rico: Electrical & Infrastructure recovery post-Maria

by Jake Shermeyer ~ Jul 16, 2018

SpaceNet Roads Extraction and Routing Challenge Solutions are Released

by David Lindenbaum ~ Jun 17, 2018

YOLT arXiv Paper and Code Release

by Adam Van Etten ~ May 29, 2018

Comet Time Series (CometTS): a New Tool for Analyzing a Time-Series of Satellite Imagery

by Jake Shermeyer and Dylan George ~ Mar 7, 2018

Broad Area Satellite Imagery Semantic Segmentation (BASISS)

by Adam Van Etten ~ Jan 24, 2018

2017

Creating Training Datasets for the SpaceNet Road Detection and Routing Challenge

by Adam Van Etten and Jake Shermeyer ~ Dec 14, 2017

Introducing the SpaceNet Road Detection and Routing Challenge and Dataset

by David Lindenbaum ~ Dec 7, 2017

Artificial ""Multispectralization"" of Color Satellite Imagery via GANs

by Lee Cohn ~ Nov 7, 2017

SpaceNet Road Detection and Routing Challenge Part II - APLS Implementation

by Adam Van Etten ~ Nov 3, 2017

SpaceNet Road Detection and Routing Challenge - Part I

by Adam Van Etten ~ Oct 3, 2017

Artificial Colorization of Grayscale Satellite Imagery via GANs: Part 2

by Lee Cohn ~ Sep 6, 2017

Artificial Colorization of Grayscale Satellite Imagery via GANs: Part 1

by Lee Cohn ~ Aug 9, 2017

2nd SpaceNet Competition Winners Code Release

by David Lindenbaum ~ Jul 26, 2017

Panchromatic to Multispectral: Object Detection Performance as a Function of Imaging Bands

by Adam Van Etten ~ Jul 20, 2017

A Summary of Technical and Financial Considerations for Commercial Small-sat SAR

by CosmiQ Staff ~ Jul 13, 2017

Accelerating Satellite Data Collection with Regulatory Reform

by Ryan Lewis ~ May 24, 2017

The Satellite Utility Manifold; Object Detection Accuracy as a Function of Image Resolution

by Adam Van Etten ~ Apr 28, 2017

Object Segmentation on SpaceNet via Multi-task Network Cascades (MNC)

by Lee Cohn ~ Apr 18, 2017

SpaceNet Labels To Pascal VOC SBD Benchmark Release Labels

by Lee Cohn ~ Mar 21, 2017

Car Localization and Counting with Overhead Imagery, an Interactive Exploration

by Adam Van Etten ~ Mar 15, 2017

Super-Resolution on Satellite Imagery using Deep Learning, Part 3

by Patrick Hagerty ~ Mar 8, 2017

Building Extraction with YOLT2 and SpaceNet Data

by Adam Van Etten ~ Feb 28, 2017

SpaceNet: Winning Implementations and New Imagery Release

by Todd Stavish ~ Feb 24, 2017

Getting Started With SpaceNet Data

by Adam Van Etten ~ Jan 5, 2017

SpaceNet Update - Announcing Rio de Janeiro Points of Interest (POI) Dataset Release

by Todd Stavish ~ Jan 3, 2017

2016

Super-Resolution on Satellite Imagery using Deep Learning, Part 2

by Patrick Hagerty ~ Dec 6, 2016

You Only Look Twice (Part II) - Vehicle and Infrastructure Detection in Satellite Imagery

by Adam Van Etten ~ Nov 28, 2016

Super-Resolution on Satellite Imagery using Deep Learning, Part 1

by Patrick Hagerty ~ Nov 18, 2016

The SpaceNet Metric

by Patrick Hagerty ~ Nov 10, 2016

You Only Look Twice - Multi-Scale Object Detection in Satellite Imagery With Convolutional Neural Networks (Part I)

by Adam Van Etten ~ Nov 7, 2016

The Effect of Resolution on Deep Neural Network Image Classification Accuracy

by Adam Van Etten ~ Oct 12, 2016

Object Detection on SpaceNet

by Patrick Hagerty ~ Oct 11, 2016

Establishing a Machine Learning Workflow

by Patrick Hagerty ~ Sep 2, 2016

Object Detection in Satellite Imagery, a Low Overhead Approach, Part II

by Adam Van Etten ~ Sep 1, 2016

Object Detection in Satellite Imagery, a Low Overhead Approach, Part I

by Adam Van Etten ~ Aug 30, 2016

Quantifying the Effects of Resolution on Image Classification Accuracy

by Adam Van Etten ~ Aug 19, 2016

Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) Boat Heading Classification

by Adam Van Etten ~ Aug 12, 2016

Setting a Foundation for Machine Learning: Datasets and Labeling

by Adam Van Etten ~ Aug 12, 2016

Welcome to The DownLinQ

by Ryan Lewis ~ Jul 22, 2016