Piper Wolters

piperw@allenai.org

I am a Research Engineer at PRIOR, the Computer Vision team at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, where I have had the pleasure of collaborating with Tanmay Gupta, Ani Kembhavi, and Favyen Bastani. I received my B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science at Western Washington University, where I was advised by Brian Hutchinson.

Research

My research interests include applying AI to important problems and ensuring my work is publicly available and easily accessible.

OPTIMUS: Observing Persistent Transformations in Multi-temporal Unlabeled Satellite-data
Paul Seulchan Han, Raymond Yu, Josh Myers-Dean, Piper Wolters, Favyen Bastani.
WACV 2025.

Molmo and PixMo: Open Weights and Open Data for State-of-the-Art Multimodal Models
Matt Deitke, Christopher Clark, ..., Piper Wolters, et. al.
2024.
[blog] [demo] [paper]

On the Generalizability of Foundation Models for Crop Type Mapping
Yi-Chia Chang, Adam J Stewart, Favyen Bastani, Piper Wolters, et. al.
2024.
[arxiv]

Zooming Out on Zooming In: Advancing Super-Resolution for Remote Sensing.
Piper Wolters, Favyen Bastani, Aniruddha Kembhavi.
2023.
[arxiv] [code] [website]

Satellite Imagery and AI: A New Era in Ocean Conservation, from Research to Deployment and Impact.
Patrick Beukema, Favyen Bastani, Piper Wolters, Henry Herzog, Joseph George Ferdinando.
NeurIPS CompSust 2023. Best Paper Award.
[arxiv]

Satlas: Creating Accurate, Global Geospatial Data Products with Large-scale Pre-training.
Favyen Bastani, Piper Wolters, Aniruddha Kembhavi.
2023.
[abstract] [website]

SatlasPretrain: A Large-Scale, Multi-Task Dataset for Remote Sensing Image Understanding.
Favyen Bastani, Piper Wolters, Ritwik Gupta, Joe Ferdinando, Aniruddha Kembhavi.
ICCV 2023.
[arxiv]

Automatic Deep-Learning-Based Classification of Bottlenose Dolphin Signature Whistles.
Frants Jensen, Piper Wolters, et. al.
International Conference on the Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life 2022.
[code] [gui] [pdf]

Vessel Detection in Sentinel-1 Imagery.
Favyen Bastani, Piper Wolters, Rose Hendrix, Joseph Ferdinando, Aniruddha Kembhavi.
xView3 Competition 2022. US 1st Place.
[code] [pdf]

Conditional Emulation of Global Precipitation with Generative Adversarial Networks.
Alex Ayala, Chris Drazic, Seth Bassetti, Eric Slyman, Brenna Nieva, Piper Wolters, et. al.
ICLR AI4EarthScience Workshop 2022.
[pdf]

Proposal-based Few-Shot Sound Event Detection for Speech and Environmental Sounds with Perceivers.
Piper Wolters, Chris Daw, Brian Hutchinson, Lauren Phillips.
2021.
[arxiv]

A Study of Few-Shot Audio Classification.
Piper Wolters, Chris Careaga, Brian Hutchinson, Lauren Phillips.
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2020.
[arxiv] [poster]