TinyPredNet: A Lightweight Framework for Satellite Image Sequence Prediction
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Published:2024-01-22
Issue:5
Volume:20
Page:1-24
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ISSN:1551-6857
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Container-title:ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications
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language:en
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Short-container-title:ACM Trans. Multimedia Comput. Commun. Appl.
Author:
Dai Kuai1ORCID,
Li Xutao1ORCID,
Lin Huiwei1ORCID,
Jiang Yin2ORCID,
Chen Xunlai2ORCID,
Ye Yunming1ORCID,
Xian Di3ORCID
Affiliation:
1. Department of Computer Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
2. Shenzhen Meteorological Bureau, China
3. National Satellite Meteorological Center, China Meteorological Administration, China
Abstract
Satellite image sequence prediction aims to precisely infer future satellite image frames with historical observations, which is a significant and challenging dense prediction task. Though existing deep learning models deliver promising performance for satellite image sequence prediction, the methods suffer from quite expensive training costs, especially in training time and GPU memory demand, due to the inefficiently modeling for temporal variations. This issue seriously limits the lightweight application in satellites such as space-borne forecast models. In this article, we propose a lightweight prediction framework TinyPredNet for satellite image sequence prediction, in which a spatial encoder and decoder model the intra-frame appearance features and a temporal translator captures inter-frame motion patterns. To efficiently model the temporal evolution of satellite image sequences, we carefully design a multi-scale temporal-cascaded structure and a channel attention-gated structure in the temporal translator. Comprehensive experiments are conducted on FengYun-4A (FY-4A) satellite dataset, which show that the proposed framework achieves very competitive performance with much lower computation cost compared to state-of-the-art methods. In addition, corresponding interpretability experiments are conducted to show how our designed structures work. We believe the proposed method can serve as a solid lightweight baseline for satellite image sequence prediction.
Funder
Shenzhen Science and Technology Program
FengYun Application Pioneering Project
Science and Technology Innovation Team Project of Guangdong Meteorological Bureau
Innovation and Development Project of China Meteorological Administration
NSFC
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Subject
Computer Networks and Communications,Hardware and Architecture
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