Chase Rainwater Source Confirmed

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Professor / Department Chairperson

University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

faculty

15 h-index 54 pubs 908 cited

Research Areas

Advanced Neural Network Applications Computer Vision Techniques Remote Sensing in Agriculture Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization Natural Language Processing Techniques Machine Learning Techniques

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Chase Rainwater's research focuses on advanced computer vision and machine learning techniques, particularly for applications in aerial imagery and domain adaptation. His work investigates novel neural network architectures, such as transformers, to improve the accuracy and efficiency of image segmentation and geolocalization tasks. Recent publications include "AerialFormer: Multi-Resolution Transformer for Aerial Image Segmentation" (2024, 2023) and "Direct Aerial Visual Geolocalization Using Deep Neural Networks" (2021).

Rainwater also explores methods for domain adaptation, which allows models trained on one dataset to perform well on data from a different distribution. This is evident in his publications "BiMaL: Bijective Maximum Likelihood Approach to Domain Adaptation in Semantic Scene Segmentation" (2021) and "EQAdap: Equipollent Domain Adaptation Approach to Image Deblurring" (2022). His research extends to vision-language tasks, as seen in "VLCAP: Vision-Language with Contrastive Learning for Coherent Video Paragraph Captioning" (2022). He leads a research group and has a significant publication record, with an h-index of 15 and over 900 citations across 54 publications.

His federally funded work includes two NSF Convergence Accelerator awards totaling over $5.7 million. These grants support projects aimed at empowering regional food systems and bridging small farms to regional food supply chains through data-driven agriculture. Rainwater collaborates with several researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Taisei Hanyu and Jackson Cothren.

Metrics

  • h-index: 15
  • Publications: 54
  • Citations: 908

Selected Publications

  • Land8Fire: A Complete Study on Wildfire Segmentation Through Comprehensive Review, Human-Annotated Multispectral Dataset, and Extensive Benchmarking (2025) DOI
  • RSSep: Sequence-to-Sequence Model for Simultaneous Referring Remote Sensing Segmentation and Detection (2025) DOI
  • A Bi-Modular Auto Encoder-Based Unsupervised Degradation Detection Methodology for Remaining Useful Life Prediction (2024) DOI
  • AerialFormer: Multi-Resolution Transformer for Aerial Image Segmentation (2024) DOI
  • A Bi-Modular Auto Encoder-Based Unsupervised Degradation Detection Methodology for Remaining Useful Life Prediction (2024) DOI
  • VLCAP: Vision-Language with Contrastive Learning for Coherent Video Paragraph Captioning (2022) DOI
  • EQAdap: Equipollent Domain Adaptation Approach to Image Deblurring (2022) DOI
  • Direct Aerial Visual Geolocalization Using Deep Neural Networks (2021) DOI
  • BiMaL: Bijective Maximum Likelihood Approach to Domain Adaptation in Semantic Scene Segmentation (2021) DOI

Federal Grants 2 $5,742,469 total

NSF Co-PI

NSF Convergence Accelerator Track J Phase 2: Cultivate IQ - Empowering Regional Food Systems

Convergence Accelerator Resrch $4,998,818
NSF Co-PI

NSF Convergence Accelerator Track J: Data-driven Agriculture to Bridge Small Farms to Regional Food Supply Chains (L02619644)

Convergence Accelerator Resrch $743,651

Collaborators

Researchers in the database who share publications

Taisei Hanyu University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 6 shared publications Jackson Cothren University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 5 shared publications Khoa Luu University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 3 shared publications Anthony L. Gunderman University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 3 shared publications Minh C. Tran University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 2 shared publications Meredith Adkins University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 2 shared publications Haitao Liao University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 2 shared publications Roy McCann University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 2 shared publications

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