Quentin Paletta

I am a research fellow at the European Space Research Institute of the European Space Agency (ESA) in Frascati in collaboration with the ESA Climate Office in Harwell, where I work on computer vision and machine learning for solar energy forecasting. 🌤️

Previously at the University of Cambridge, I have developped deep learning algorithms for advancing solar nowcasting based on cloud cover observations from sky cameras and weather satellites.

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Research

I'm interested in computer vision, machine learning, earth observations and solar energy. Much of my research is about improving solar forecasting tools from cloud cover observations. Representative papers are highlighted.

	Improving cross-site generalisability of vision-based solar forecasting models with physics-informed transfer learning Quentin Paletta, Yuhao Nie, Yves-Marie Saint-Drenan, Bertrand Le Saux, Energy Conversion and Management, 2024 paper Forecasting solar energy accurately is good, generalising beyond the location where the model was trained is even better! Here, we explore diverse zero-shot and few-shot learning tasks based on a model pre-trained at another location.
	SkyGPT: Probabilistic Ultra-short-term Solar Forecasting Using Synthetic Sky Images from Physics-constrained VideoGPT Yuhao Nie, Eric Zelikman, Andea scott, Quentin Paletta, Adam Brandt, Advances in Applied Energy, 2024 paper We introduce SkyGPT, a physics-informed stochastic video prediction model that is able to generate multiple possible future images of the sky with diverse cloud motion patterns, by using past sky image sequences as input.
	Open-source ground-based sky image datasets for very short-term solar forecasting, cloud analysis and modeling: A comprehensive survey Yuhao Nie, Xiatong Li, Quentin Paletta, Max Aragon, Andea scott, Adam Brandt, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2024 paper Comprehensive survey of 72 open-source ground-based sky image datasets for very short-term solar forecasting applications.
	Advances in Solar Forecasting: Computer Vision with Deep Learning Quentin Paletta, Guillermo Terrén-Serrano, Yuhao Nie, Binghui Li, Jacob Bieker, Wenqi Zhang, Laurent Dubus, Soumyabrata Dev, Cong Feng, Advances in Applied Energy, 2023 paper Literature review on the field of computer vision-based solar forecasting with a particular focus at the application of deep learning to process cloud cover observations collected by sky cameras or meteorological satellites.
	Omnivision forecasting: Combining satellite and sky images for improved deterministic and probabilistic intra-hour solar energy predictions Quentin Paletta, Guillaume Arbod, Joan Lasenby, Applied Energy, 2023 paper Combining sky images and satellite observations into a single machine learning framework for intra-hour solar forecasting.
	Sky-image-based solar forecasting using deep learning with multi-location data: training models locally, globally or via transfer learning? Yuhao Nie, Quentin Paletta, Andea scott, Luis Martin Pomares, Guillaume Arbod, Sgouris Sgouridis, Joan Lasenby, Adam Brandt, Preprint, 2023 paper Comparative study between local training, global training, and transfer learning for solar nowcasting based on sky images.
	Cloud Flow Centring in Sky and Satellite Images for Deep Solar Forecasting Quentin Paletta, Guillaume Arbod, Joan Lasenby, 8th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, 2022 paper Processing method for cloud cover videos to consistently centre the polar representation on the incoming flow of clouds using an optical flow algorithm.
	SPIN: Simplifying Polar Invariance for Neural networks Application to vision-based irradiance forecasting Quentin Paletta, Anthony Hu, Guillaume Arbod, Philippe Blanc, Joan Lasenby, Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshop, 2022 paper Comparative study between various data augmentation and scene presentation methods including the use of polar coordinates. Application to solar forecasting from sky images and satellite observations.
	ECLIPSE: Envisioning CLoud Induced Perturbations in Solar Energy Quentin Paletta, Anthony Hu, Guillaume Arbod, Joan Lasenby, Applied Energy, 2022 paper Novel deep learning architecture for solar irradiance and sky image prediction.
	Benchmarking of Deep Learning Irradiance Forecasting Models from Sky Images - An in-depth Analysis Quentin Paletta, Guillaume Arbod, Joan Lasenby, Solar Energy, 2021 paper Benchmarking of standard deep learning models for solar power nowcasting using sky images.
	A Temporally Consistent Image-based Sun Tracking Algorithm for Solar Energy Forecasting Applications Quentin Paletta, Joan Lasenby, NeurIPS 2020 - Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning workshop, 2020 project page / paper / slides Sun tracking algorithm based on sky images only.

Design and source code from Jon Barron's website.