Embed2Scale session @AI4Good: Embedding workflows for Earth Observation tasks
2026-02-25 14:00 - 15:30 UTC
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This workshop, with Embed2Scale expert Isabelle Wittmann from IBM Research, will demonstrate how modern Foundation Models can generate EO embeddings that preserve task-relevant information. These embeddings allow lightweight decoders up to two orders of magnitude smaller, accelerating training and inference.

In two segments, participants will:– Gain hands-on experience with TerraTorch, an open-source library offering tools to extract embeddings via a no-code CLI, adjust aggregation levels for different use cases, visualize and analyse embedding properties and run complete workflows for downstream tasks.– Be introduced to NeuCo-Bench, a benchmarking framework from the Embed2Scale consortium. NeuCo-Bench enables rapid evaluation of embeddings across diverse tasks within seconds, requiring no prior setup.

The workshop will conclude by integrating TerraTorch and NeuCo-Bench in a full workflow, showcasing instant evaluation of generated embeddings. It highlights efficiency gains, demonstrates practical workflows, and shows how embeddings drastically reduce computation and training time, with interactive demos ensuring participants leave with actionable skills for EO tasks.

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:– Get an introduction to neural embeddings and their role in modern EO workflows.– Learn to extract EO embeddings for your data using TerraTorch’s no-/low-code CLI.– Benchmark embedding methods within seconds using NeuCo-Bench.– Build your own embedding downstream task workflows and integrate NeuCo-Bench evaluations into them.

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Webinar: "Visual Prompting for Geospatial Image Segmentation based on Embedding Maps"
2026-03-27 15:00 - 16:00
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ISPRS Geospatial Week 2025

The application of Foundation Models to Earth Observation (EO) data is often slowed down by complex data preparation for fine-tuning, creating the need for more efficient adaptation strategies.

This webinar features the Visual Prompting for Geospatial Image Segmentation (VP‑GIS), a framework that utilises high-dimensional embedding maps to guide zero-shot segmentation models toward domain-specific features. Rather than modifying model weights, the VP‑GIS approach injects learnable visual prompts into the input space, derived from the topological structures of pre-computed embedding manifolds. By aligning the visual prompts with the latent distribution of geospatial features (e.g., cosine similarity), the segmentation mask is created based on similarity scores between prompt and image embeddings.

The webinar showcases a working prototype demonstration, explains its functionality and opens the discussion on future work.

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Webinar: "Embedding Space Metrics Constrained Fine-Tuning"
2026-04-24 15:00 - 16:00
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While fine-tuning Geospatial Foundation Models (GFMs) has become the standard for domain adaptation, it often leads to catastrophic forgetting or ‘representation drift,’ where the model’s fundamental understanding of semantic relationships is warped. This webinar introduces Embedding Space Metrics Constrained Fine-Tuning (ESM-CFT), an optimisation method in the TerraTorch framework designed to preserve the structural integrity of the latent space during supervised fine-tuning.

Unlike traditional methods that rely solely on cross-entropy loss, ESM-CFT incorporates a geometric constraint based on distance metrics to ensure that the relative positioning of representations in the embedding space remains stable.

The webinar presents promising preliminary experimental results and opens the stage for discussion of future work.

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EGU 2026
2026-05-05 08:00 - 2026-05-08 17:00
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Embed2Scale partners Damien Robert and Jan Dirk Wegner (UZH) present their work at EGU2026, showcasing the use case “Forest Biomass Disturbance Monitoring.”

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2nd ESA-NASA Workshop on AI Foundation Model for Earth Observation
2026-05-19 08:00 - 2026-05-22 17:00
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Building on the success of the first ESA/NASA Workshop, hosted at ESA-ESRIN, the second Workshop in the series will be held May 19–22, 2026, hosted by NASA MSFC in Huntsville, Alabama.The first workshop demonstrated growing alignment between the EO and AI-FM communities, with an explicit call for stronger coordination to reduce redundant efforts, minimize silos and for ESA/NASA to act as catalysts for sustained cross-domain collaboration. A clear emphasis emerged on moving past rapid prototyping toward operational deployment, including designing FMs to be accountable, scientifically validated, interoperable, computationally efficient, and integrated into downstream systems (Digital Twins, dashboards, early warning, and edge/onboard use). The community highlighted reproducibility and transparent benchmarking as prerequisites for trust and adoption, calling for evaluation frameworks that reflect scientific rigor and operational constraints to help users navigate a fast-moving FM landscape.Furthermore, the recommendations from the first workshop highlighted the need for continued refining benchmarks to better capture real EO conditions (noise/complexity), and expand evaluation to include model behavior, uncertainty and efficiency, and shifting benchmark definition from model builders to real end users. The workshop report asked to prioritize scalable methods (parameter-efficient adaptation, embedding-based workflows, neural compression), integrate domain knowledge to ensure physical plausibility/interpretability, and assess environmental impact across the FM lifecycle (training through inference).Ultimately, the goal is to develop more highly dimensional, physically grounded models (multimodality/sensor, multitemporal, multiresolution), revisit pretraining/pretext tasks, integrate climate/weather principles, and include uncertainty quantification and evolving beyond static pipelines toward modular agentic AI that can dynamically reason and act on EO data (especially when paired with FM models for EO).

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CVPR 2026
2026-06-03 08:00 - 2026-06-07 17:00
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The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026

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High Performance and Disruptive Computing in Remote Sensing School 2026
2026-06-09 08:00 - 2026-06-12 17:00
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The summer school is organised by the High-Performance and Disruptive Computing in Remote Sensing (HDCRS) Working Group. HDCRS is part of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS), within the Earth Science Informatics (ESI) Technical Committee.The school is an opportunity to connect with students, young professionals, and senior researchers working in remote sensing and in interdisciplinary areas involving high‑performance and distributed computing, disruptive computing approaches, and parallel programming models using specialised hardware.Project partner FZJ will present the project, with a focus on the use case “Crop Stress and Yield Early Detection” (https://embed2scale.eu/use-cases/crop-stress-and-yield-early-detection/), and will provide hands‑on demonstrations.

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IGARSS 2026
2026-08-09 08:00 - 2026-08-14 17:00
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On August 9, during IGARSS 2026, Embed2Scale experts will deliver an introduction and hands‑on session on NeuCo‑Bench (https://github.com/embed2scale/NeuCo-Bench/tree/main), a benchmark framework that emerged from the 2025 CVPR EARTHVISION workshop (https://www.grss-ieee.org/events/earthvision-2025/?tab=challenge). NeuCo‑Bench is designed as an extendable, community‑driven framework for evaluating neural compression and representation learning methods in the context of Earth Observation (EO), without requiring heavy compute resources. The growing volume and complexity of EO data calls for standardized, scalable, and reproducible tools that can assess the quality and utility of learned representations across diverse downstream tasks. NeuCo‑Bench and its associated Earth2Vec community (https://earth2vec.github.io), which grew out of the Horizon Europe project Embed2Scale, address this need by offering a modular evaluation pipeline built around fixed‑size, task‑agnostic embeddings. This enables researchers and practitioners to consistently compare neural compression methods.

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SPIE Security + Defence
2026-09-14 08:00 - 2026-09-17 17:00
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SPIE Security + Defence is the leading international conference for engineers and scientists involved in the latest developments in sensing, data and signal analysis, optronics, quantum science, optical technologies, and funding programmes.

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