The 1st place solution in Weather4cast transfer learning leaderboard

This repository contains the code and UNetTFI model used in Weather4cast competition, which achieves the 1st place in the transfer learning leaderboard. It includes trained models, their weights, configurations, and scripts to reproduce our results.

Our solution (scientific paper) utilizes the newly proposed Temporal Frame Interpolation (TFI) methods to enhance the model's understanding of the image sequences, along with a new Multi-Level dice loss (ML-Dice) that improves the vanilla dice loss by extracting ordinal relationship between rainfall rates.

The aim of the 2023 edition of the Weather4cast competition is to predict quantitatively future high resolution rainfall events from lower resolution satellite radiances.

• checkpoints/: Contains the trained model weights.
• models/: Contains model architecture files.
  • configurations/: Contains YAML configuration files for model training and inference.
• utils/: Utility scripts including data loaders and evaluation scripts.
• sub_4h.sh, sub_4h.trans.sh, sub_8h.sh: Scripts to generate submissions using the models.
• train.py: The main training script for the models.
• UNetTFI.yaml: The conda envirnment.
• COPYING: The file containing the copyright information.
• LICENSE: The license file for the project.
• README.md: This file, explaining the project and setup.

To create an environment with the required dependencies, run:

conda env create -f w4cNew.yaml

Activate the environment with:

conda activate w4cNew

To generate submissions, execute the following scripts in the repository's root directory, ensuring that the correct GPU index, configuration file, and model checkpoint path are provided. Model weights can be found in releases.

For the UNetTFI 4-hour prediction on nowcasting dataset:

sh sub_4h.sh [gpu] models/configurations/UNetTFI_4h.yaml "checkpoints/UNetTFI_4h.ckpt"

For the UNetTFI 4-hour prediction on transfer dataset:

sh sub_4h.trans.sh [gpu] models/configurations/UNetTFI_4h_trans.yaml "checkpoints/UNetTFI_4h.ckpt"

For the UNetTFI 8-hour prediction on core challenge dataset:

sh sub_8h.sh [gpu] models/configurations/UNetTFI_8h.yaml "checkpoints/UNetTFI_8h.ckpt"

@article{han2023learning,
  title={Learning Robust Precipitation Forecaster by Temporal Frame Interpolation},
  author={Lu Han, Xu-Yang Chen, Han-Jia Ye, De-Chuan Zhan},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.18341},
  year={2023}
}