RapidEarth: A Search-by-Classification Engine for Large-Scale Geospatial Imagery

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Data exploration and analysis in various domains often necessitate the search for specific objects in massive databases. A common search strategy, often known as search-by-classification, resorts to training machine learning models on small sets of positive and negative samples and to performing inference on the entire database to discover additional objects of interest. While such an approach often yields very good results in terms of classification performance, the entire database usually needs to be scanned, a process that can easily take several hours even for medium-sized data catalogs. In this work, we present RapidEarth, a geospatial search-by-classification engine that allows analysts to rapidly search for interesting objects in very large data collections of satellite imagery in a matter of seconds, without the need to scan the entire data catalog. RapidEarth embodies a co-design of multidimensional indexing structures and decision branches, a recently proposed variant of classical decision trees. These decision branches allow RapidEarth to transform the inference phase into a set of range queries, which can be efficiently processed by leveraging the aforementioned multidimensional indexing structures. The main contribution of this work is a geospatial search engine that implements these technical findings.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication31st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2023
EditorsMaria Luisa Damiani, Matthias Renz, Ahmed Eldawy, Peer Kroger, Mario A. Nascimento
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc.
Publication date2023
Pages1-4
Article number58
ISBN (Electronic)9798400701689
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Event31st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2023 - Hamburg, Germany
Duration: 13 Nov 202316 Nov 2023

Conference

Conference31st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2023
LandGermany
ByHamburg
Periode13/11/202316/11/2023
SponsorApple, Esri, Oracle
SeriesGIS: Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Fabian Gieseke acknowledges support from the Independent Research Fund Denmark (grant number 9131-00110B) and from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (AI4Forest project; grant number 01IS23025).

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    Research areas

  • classification, decision trees, index structures, search engine

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