Publications
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Open-Insect: Benchmarking Open-Set Recognition of Novel Species in Biodiversity Monitoring
Yuyan Chen, Nico Lang, B. Christian Schmidt, Aditya Jain, Yves Basset, Sara Beery, Maxim Larrivée, David Rolnick
NeurIPS 2025 Dataset and Benchmark Track (Spotlight)
[arxiv] [project website] [code] [dataset]
Drone imagery for roof detection, classification, and segmentation to support mosquito-borne disease risk assessment: The Nacala-Roof-Material dataset Venkanna Babu Guthula, Stefan Oehmcke, Remigio Chilaule, Hui Zhang, Nico Lang, Ankit Kariryaa, Johan Mottelson, Christian Igel Science of Remote Sensing (2025)
[article] [project website] [data] [code]
Taxonomy-Aware Evaluation of Vision-Language Models
Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson, Kevin Du, Niklas Stoehr, Serge Belongie, Ryan Cotterell, Nico Lang, Stella Frank
CVPR 2025
[article] [code]
MMEarth: Exploring Multi-Modal Pretext Tasks For Geospatial Representation Learning
Vishal Nedungadi, Ankit Kariryaa, Stefan Oehmcke, Serge Belongie, Christian Igel, Nico Lang
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2024)
[arxiv] [project website] [code-data] [code-model]
Labeled Data Selection for Category Discovery
Bingchen Zhao, Nico Lang, Serge Belongie, Oisin Mac Aodha
ECCV 2024
[arxiv]
From Coarse to Fine-Grained Open-Set Recognition
Nico Lang, Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson, Elijah Cole, Oisin Mac Aodha, Christian Igel, and Serge Belongie
CVPR 2024
[article] [project website] [code]
A high-resolution canopy height model of the Earth
Nico Lang, Walter Jetz, Konrad Schindler, Jan Dirk Wegner
Nature Ecology and Evolution (2023)
[article] [arxiv] [project website] [explore maps] [code]
The overlooked contribution of trees outside forests to tree cover and woody biomass across Europe Siyu Liu, Martin Brandt, Thomas Nord-Larsen, Jerome Chave, Florian Reiner, Nico Lang, Xiaoye Tong, Philippe Ciais, Christian Igel, Adrian Pascual, Juan Guerra-Hernandez, Sizhuo Li, Maurice Mugabowindekwe, Sassan Saatchi, Yuemin Yue, Zhengchao Chen, RasmusFensholt
Science Advances (2023)
[article] [download maps]
Cocoa plantations are associated with deforestation in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana
Nikolai Kalischek, Nico Lang, Cécile Renier, Rodrigo Caye Daudt, Thomas Addoah, William Thompson, Wilma J. Blaser-Hart, Rachael Garrett, Konrad Schindler, Jan D. Wegner
Nature Food (2023)
[article] [code] [explore maps]
Doctoral Thesis: Mapping Vegetation Height — Probabilistic Deep Learning for Global Remote Sensing
Nico Lang
Committee: Prof. Dr. Konrad Schindler (ETH Zurich), Prof. Dr. Jan Dirk Wegner (University of Zurich), Prof. Dr. Walter Jetz (Yale University), Dr. Habil. Bertrand Le Saux (European Space Agency)
[pdf]
High carbon stock mapping at large scale with optical satellite imagery and spaceborne LIDAR
Nico Lang, Konrad Schindler, Jan Dirk Wegner
arXiv (2021)
[pdf] [explore maps] [download maps]
Global canopy height regression and uncertainty estimation from GEDI LIDAR waveforms with deep ensembles
Nico Lang, Nikolai Kalischek, John Armston, Konrad Schindler, Ralph Dubayah, Jan Dirk Wegner
Remote Sensing of Environment (2021)
[pdf] [code] [demo dataset] [download map]
GRAINet: mapping grain size distributions in river beds from UAV images with convolutional neural networks
Nico Lang, Andrea Irniger, Agnieszka Rozniak, Roni Hunziker, Jan Dirk Wegner, Konrad Schindler
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (2021)
[pdf] [code] [demo dataset]
Country-wide high-resolution vegetation height mapping with Sentinel-2
Nico Lang, Konrad Schindler, Jan Dirk Wegner
Remote Sensing of Environment (2019)
[pdf] [download maps]
From Google Maps to a Fine-Grained Catalog of Street trees
Steve Branson, Jan Dirk Wegner, David Hall, Nico Lang, Konrad Schindler, Pietro Perona
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (2018)
Awarded best paper of the ISPRS journal in 2018
[pdf] [project website]