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Explicit Basis Function Kernel Methods for Cloud Segmentation in Infrared Sky Images

12 Feb 2021arXiv:2102.06646archive 2025-07-28

Guillermo Terrén-Serrano, Manel Martínez-Ramón

Photovoltaic systems are sensitive to cloud shadow projection, which needs to be forecasted to reduce the noise impacting the intra-hour forecast of global solar irradiance. We present a comparison between different kernel discriminative models for cloud detection. The models are solved in the primal formulation to make them feasible in real-time applications. The performances are compared using the j-statistic. The infrared cloud images have been preprocessed to remove debris, which increases the performance of the analyzed methods. The use of neighboring features of the pixels also leads to a performance improvement. Discriminative models solved in the primal yield a dramatically lower computing time along with high performance in the segmentation.

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