Leron K. Julian

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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0003-5799-7673ORCID · reported

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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper
Energy systems and smart grids · 100%
Computer graphics and multimedia
1 paper
Computational photography and imaging · 100%

Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Energy systems and smart grids › energy forecasting
solar irradiance forecasting
0.912025
Computational Imaging for Long-Term Prediction of Solar Irradiance · IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 2025
Computational photography and imaging › omnidirectional imaging
catadioptric imaging
0.312025
Computational Imaging for Long-Term Prediction of Solar Irradiance · IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

wind velocity estimation · 1.7spatio-temporal slicing · 1.7ray-tracing simulation · 1.7
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Computational Imaging for Long-Term Prediction of Solar Irradiance
abstract
The occlusion of the sun by clouds is one of the primary sources of uncertainties in solar power generation, and is a factor that affects the wide-spread use of solar power as a primary energy source. Real-time forecasting of cloud movement and, as a result, solar irradiance is necessary to schedule and allocate energy across grid-connected photovoltaic systems. Previous works monitored cloud movement using wide-angle field of view imagery of the sky. However, such images have poor resolution for clouds that appear near the horizon, which reduces their effectiveness for long term prediction of solar occlusion. Specifically, to be able to predict occlusion of the sun over long time periods, clouds that are near the horizon need to be detected, and their velocities estimated precisely. To enable such a system, we design and deploy a catadioptric system that delivers wide-angle imagery with uniform spatial resolution of the sky over its field of view. To enable prediction over a longer time horizon, we design an algorithm that uses carefully selected spatio-temporal slices of the imagery using estimated wind direction and velocity as inputs. Using ray-tracing simulations as well as a real testbed deployed outdoors, we show that the system is capable of predicting solar occlusion as well as irradiance for tens of minutes in the future, which is an order of magnitude improvement over prior work.
Leron K. Julian, Haejoon Lee, Soummya Kar, Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan
IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell.1