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Solar irradiance anticipative transformer

Solar irradiance anticipative transformer
Solar irradiance anticipative transformer
This paper proposes an anticipative transformer-based model for short-term solar irradiance forecasting. Given a sequence of sky images, our proposed vision transformer encodes features of consecutive images, feeding into a transformer decoder to predict irradiance values associated with future unseen sky images. We show that our model effectively learns to attend only to relevant features in images in order to forecast irradiance. Moreover, the proposed anticipative transformer captures long-range dependencies between sky images to achieve a forecasting skill of 21.45 % on a 15 minute ahead prediction for a newly introduced dataset of all-sky images when compared to a smart persistence model.
IEEE
Mercier, Thomas M.
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Rahman, Tasmiat
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Sabet, Amin
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Mercier, Thomas M.
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Rahman, Tasmiat
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Sabet, Amin
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Mercier, Thomas M., Rahman, Tasmiat and Sabet, Amin (2023) Solar irradiance anticipative transformer. In 2023 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW). IEEE. 10 pp . (doi:10.1109/CVPRW59228.2023.00200).

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Abstract

This paper proposes an anticipative transformer-based model for short-term solar irradiance forecasting. Given a sequence of sky images, our proposed vision transformer encodes features of consecutive images, feeding into a transformer decoder to predict irradiance values associated with future unseen sky images. We show that our model effectively learns to attend only to relevant features in images in order to forecast irradiance. Moreover, the proposed anticipative transformer captures long-range dependencies between sky images to achieve a forecasting skill of 21.45 % on a 15 minute ahead prediction for a newly introduced dataset of all-sky images when compared to a smart persistence model.

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Published date: 14 August 2023

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Local EPrints ID: 492460
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/492460
PURE UUID: 573b8ba8-dfb0-4dd9-984c-b50981efafce
ORCID for Tasmiat Rahman: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6485-2128

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Date deposited: 29 Jul 2024 16:39
Last modified: 30 Jul 2024 01:47

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Author: Thomas M. Mercier
Author: Tasmiat Rahman ORCID iD
Author: Amin Sabet

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