ELMZip: Onboard Satellite Image Compression via Extreme Learning Machines for Efficient Downlink

The acquisition of multispectral imagery via small satellites (e.g., CubeSats) presents significant data downlink challenges due to high data volumes and restricted communication windows. While onboard image compression is critical to address this bottleneck, traditional methods often struggle to adapt to the nonlinear statistics of multi-band, multi-resolution data. To overcome these limitations, we propose ELMZip, a novel framework based on Extreme Learning Machines (ELM) and domain decomposition strategies for efficient, resolution-free onboard neural representation. ELMZip formulates the fitting process as a convex least-squares problem using random-feature single-layer networks, thereby eliminating the need for computationally expensive backpropagation. By adopting an asymmetric transmission protocol that sends only the compact output weights, the proposed method significantly reduces the downlink payload. Unlike previous neural representation approaches that rely on iterative optimization and require transmitting full network parameters, ELMZip achieves significant compression efficiency while maintaining high reconstruction fidelity. This capability enables immediate image reconstruction for analysis, allowing resource-constrained platforms to maximize data return and advancing real-time AI-powered Earth observation.

CNS-Edit++: Category-Agnostic 3D Editing with Coupled Neural Shape Representation

This paper presents a latent-space 3D shape editing framework built upon a coupled neural shape (CNS) representation and a neural feature volume optimization. This work extends CNS-Edit, built on Coupled Neural Shape optimization, to CNS-Edit++, by generalizing the category-specific coupled representation to category-agnostic 3D shape editing with foundation models. The Coupled Neural Shape (CNS) representation couples a global latent code that captures high-level shape semantics with a 3D neural feature volume that provides spatial context for local shape manipulation. Then we formulate a coupled neural shape optimization procedure that co-optimizes these two components subject to a given editing operation. Our framework can be instantiated on both the category-specific 3D inversion model and category-agnostic 3D foundation models. We provide various shape editing operators, including copy, resize, delete, mix, point-wise drag, and region-wise drag, each of which is formulated as an objective to guide the CNS optimization. To preserve regions outside the editing area, we further introduce two complementary region-wise control mechanisms, i.e., KV-cache replacement and latent feature regularization. Extensive quantitative and qualitative evaluations across different 3D generative models demonstrate the strong capabilities of our approach over state-of-the-art solutions.