scholarly journals Remote Sensing Road Extraction by Road Segmentation Network

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 5050
Author(s):  
Jiahai Tan ◽  
Ming Gao ◽  
Kai Yang ◽  
Tao Duan
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Attention Mechanism ◽  
Context Information ◽  
Road Extraction ◽  
Remote Sensing Images ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
The Road ◽  
Road Segmentation ◽  
Context Characteristics

Road extraction from remote sensing images has attracted much attention in geospatial applications. However, the existing methods do not accurately identify the connectivity of the road. The identification of the road pixels may be interfered with by the abundant ground such as buildings, trees, and shadows. The objective of this paper is to enhance context and strip features of the road by designing UNet-like architecture. The overall method first enhances the context characteristics in the segmentation step and then maintains the stripe characteristics in a refinement step. The segmentation step exploits an attention mechanism to enhance the context information between the adjacent layers. To obtain the strip features of the road, the refinement step introduces the strip pooling in a refinement network to restore the long distance dependent information of the road. Extensive comparative experiments demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms other methods, achieving an overall accuracy of 98.25% on the DeepGlobe dataset, and 97.68% on the Massachusetts dataset.

scholarly journals Multiscale Road Extraction in Remote Sensing Images

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aziguli Wulamu ◽  
Zuxian Shi ◽  
Dezheng Zhang ◽  
Zheyu He
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Network Architecture ◽  
Semantic Segmentation ◽  
Road Extraction ◽  
Remote Sensing Images ◽  
The Road ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Spatial Pyramid Pooling ◽  
The One

Recent advances in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown impressive results in semantic segmentation. Among the successful CNN-based methods, U-Net has achieved exciting performance. In this paper, we proposed a novel network architecture based on U-Net and atrous spatial pyramid pooling (ASPP) to deal with the road extraction task in the remote sensing field. On the one hand, U-Net structure can effectively extract valuable features; on the other hand, ASPP is able to utilize multiscale context information in remote sensing images. Compared to the baseline, this proposed model has improved the pixelwise mean Intersection over Union (mIoU) of 3 points. Experimental results show that the proposed network architecture can deal with different types of road surface extraction tasks under various terrains in Yinchuan city, solve the road connectivity problem to some extent, and has certain tolerance to shadows and occlusion.

A Fast Algorithm for Road Recognition in Remote Sensing Image

2010 ◽  
Vol 108-111 ◽  
pp. 1344-1347
Author(s):  
Li Li Li ◽  
Yong Xin Liu
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Edge Detection ◽  
Fast Algorithm ◽  
Remote Sensing Image ◽  
Extraction Methods ◽  
Feature Integration ◽  
Road Extraction ◽  
Remote Sensing Images ◽  
The Road ◽  
Simulation Results

In general, the road extraction methods in remote sensing images mainly are edge detection, feature integration, and so on. A fast road recognition arithmetic is presented in this paper. First using adaptive binarization arithmetic, the path on remote sensing images is extracted. Then morphological method is used to process image. Finally, the extracted image superimposed with the original and get clear road. Simulation results shows that this algorithm is efficiency, the anti-noise ability is enhance, and more precision.

scholarly journals Cascaded Residual Attention Enhanced Road Extraction from Remote Sensing Images

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Shengfu Li ◽  
Cheng Liao ◽  
Yulin Ding ◽  
Han Hu ◽  
Yang Jia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Semantic Segmentation ◽  
Road Extraction ◽  
Remote Sensing Images ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Features Fusion ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
Boundary Recognition ◽  
Benchmark Datasets

Efficient and accurate road extraction from remote sensing imagery is important for applications related to navigation and Geographic Information System updating. Existing data-driven methods based on semantic segmentation recognize roads from images pixel by pixel, which generally uses only local spatial information and causes issues of discontinuous extraction and jagged boundary recognition. To address these problems, we propose a cascaded attention-enhanced architecture to extract boundary-refined roads from remote sensing images. Our proposed architecture uses spatial attention residual blocks on multi-scale features to capture long-distance relations and introduce channel attention layers to optimize the multi-scale features fusion. Furthermore, a lightweight encoder-decoder network is connected to adaptively optimize the boundaries of the extracted roads. Our experiments showed that the proposed method outperformed existing methods and achieved state-of-the-art results on the Massachusetts dataset. In addition, our method achieved competitive results on more recent benchmark datasets, e.g., the DeepGlobe and the Huawei Cloud road extraction challenge.

scholarly journals Robust Building Extraction for High Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing Images with Self-Attention Network

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (24) ◽  
pp. 7241
Author(s):  
Dengji Zhou ◽  
Guizhou Wang ◽  
Guojin He ◽  
Tengfei Long ◽  
Ranyu Yin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Spatial Resolution ◽  
High Spatial Resolution ◽  
Remote Sensing Image ◽  
Context Information ◽  
Building Extraction ◽  
Remote Sensing Images ◽  
Global Features ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Attention Network

Building extraction from high spatial resolution remote sensing images is a hot spot in the field of remote sensing applications and computer vision. This paper presents a semantic segmentation model, which is a supervised method, named Pyramid Self-Attention Network (PISANet). Its structure is simple, because it contains only two parts: one is the backbone of the network, which is used to learn the local features (short distance context information around the pixel) of buildings from the image; the other part is the pyramid self-attention module, which is used to obtain the global features (long distance context information with other pixels in the image) and the comprehensive features (includes color, texture, geometric and high-level semantic feature) of the building. The network is an end-to-end approach. In the training stage, the input is the remote sensing image and corresponding label, and the output is probability map (the probability that each pixel is or is not building). In the prediction stage, the input is the remote sensing image, and the output is the extraction result of the building. The complexity of the network structure was reduced so that it is easy to implement. The proposed PISANet was tested on two datasets. The result shows that the overall accuracy reached 94.50 and 96.15%, the intersection-over-union reached 77.45 and 87.97%, and F1 index reached 87.27 and 93.55%, respectively. In experiments on different datasets, PISANet obtained high overall accuracy, low error rate and improved integrity of individual buildings.

scholarly journals Road Extraction from Remote Sensing Images Using the Inner Convolution Integrated Encoder-Decoder Network and Directional Conditional Random Fields

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 465
Author(s):  
Shuyang Wang ◽  
Xiaodong Mu ◽  
Dongfang Yang ◽  
Hao He ◽  
Peng Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Random Fields ◽  
Conditional Random Fields ◽  
Road Extraction ◽  
Remote Sensing Images ◽  
Feature Maps ◽  
Convolutional Network ◽  
The Road ◽  
Disaster Assessment

Road extraction from remote sensing images is of great significance to urban planning, navigation, disaster assessment, and other applications. Although deep neural networks have shown a strong ability in road extraction, it remains a challenging task due to complex circumstances and factors such as occlusion. To improve the accuracy and connectivity of road extraction, we propose an inner convolution integrated encoder-decoder network with the post-processing of directional conditional random fields. Firstly, we design an inner convolutional network which can propagate information slice-by-slice within feature maps, thus enhancing the learning of road topology and linear features. Additionally, we present the directional conditional random fields to improve the quality of the extracted road by adding the direction of roads to the energy function of the conditional random fields. The experimental results on the Massachusetts road dataset show that the proposed approach achieves high-quality segmentation results, with the F1-score of 84.6%, which outperforms other comparable “state-of-the-art” approaches. The visualization results prove that the proposed approach is able to effectively extract roads from remote sensing images and can solve the road connectivity problem produced by occlusions to some extent.

scholarly journals Road Extraction by Using Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling Integrated Encoder-Decoder Network and Structural Similarity Loss

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 1015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao He ◽  
Dongfang Yang ◽  
Shicheng Wang ◽  
Shuyang Wang ◽  
Yongfei Li
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Traffic Management ◽  
Structural Similarity ◽  
Semantic Segmentation ◽  
Road Extraction ◽  
Remote Sensing Images ◽  
The Road ◽  
Segmentation Methods ◽  
Spatial Pyramid Pooling ◽  
Spatial Pyramid

The technology used for road extraction from remote sensing images plays an important role in urban planning, traffic management, navigation, and other geographic applications. Although deep learning methods have greatly enhanced the development of road extractions in recent years, this technology is still in its infancy. Because the characteristics of road targets are complex, the accuracy of road extractions is still limited. In addition, the ambiguous prediction of semantic segmentation methods also makes the road extraction result blurry. In this study, we improved the performance of the road extraction network by integrating atrous spatial pyramid pooling (ASPP) with an Encoder-Decoder network. The proposed approach takes advantage of ASPP’s ability to extract multiscale features and the Encoder-Decoder network’s ability to extract detailed features. Therefore, it can achieve accurate and detailed road extraction results. For the first time, we utilized the structural similarity (SSIM) as a loss function for road extraction. Therefore, the ambiguous predictions in the extraction results can be removed, and the image quality of the extracted roads can be improved. The experimental results using the Massachusetts Road dataset show that our method achieves an F1-score of 83.5% and an SSIM of 0.893. Compared with the normal U-net, our method improves the F1-score by 2.6% and the SSIM by 0.18. Therefore, it is demonstrated that the proposed approach can extract roads from remote sensing images more effectively and clearly than the other compared methods.

scholarly journals An Improved Method for Road Extraction from High-Resolution Remote-Sensing Images that Enhances Boundary Information

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (7) ◽  
pp. 2064 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuai Wang ◽  
Hui Yang ◽  
Qiangqiang Wu ◽  
Zhiteng Zheng ◽  
Yanlan Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Road Extraction ◽  
Remote Sensing Images ◽  
Feature Maps ◽  
Convolutional Network ◽  
The Road ◽  
High Level

At present, deep-learning methods have been widely used in road extraction from remote-sensing images and have effectively improved the accuracy of road extraction. However, these methods are still affected by the loss of spatial features and the lack of global context information. To solve these problems, we propose a new network for road extraction, the coord-dense-global (CDG) model, built on three parts: a coordconv module by putting coordinate information into feature maps aimed at reducing the loss of spatial information and strengthening road boundaries, an improved dense convolutional network (DenseNet) that could make full use of multiple features through own dense blocks, and a global attention module designed to highlight high-level information and improve category classification by using pooling operation to introduce global information. When tested on a complex road dataset from Massachusetts, USA, CDG achieved clearly superior performance to contemporary networks such as DeepLabV3+, U-net, and D-LinkNet. For example, its mean IoU (intersection of the prediction and ground truth regions over their union) and mean F1 score (evaluation metric for the harmonic mean of the precision and recall metrics) were 61.90% and 76.10%, respectively, which were 1.19% and 0.95% higher than the results of D-LinkNet (the winner of a road-extraction contest). In addition, CDG was also superior to the other three models in solving the problem of tree occlusion. Finally, in universality research with the Gaofen-2 satellite dataset, the CDG model also performed well at extracting the road network in the test maps of Hefei and Tianjin, China.

scholarly journals A ROAD EXTRACTION METHOD BASED ON HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING IMAGE

2020 ◽  
Vol XLII-3/W10 ◽  
pp. 671-676 ◽  
Author(s):  
X. Zhang ◽  
C. K. Zhang ◽  
H. M. Li ◽  
Z. Luo
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Extraction Method ◽  
Mean Shift ◽  
Road Extraction ◽  
Remote Sensing Images ◽  
Mean Shift Algorithm ◽  
The Road ◽  
Stroke Width ◽  
Transformation Algorithm

Abstract. Aiming at the road extraction in high-resolution remote sensing images, the stroke width transformation algorithm is greatly affected by surrounding objects, and it is impossible to directly obtain high-precision road information. A new road extraction method combining stroke width transformation and mean drift is proposed. In order to reduce road holes and discontinuities, and preserve better edge information, the algorithm first performs denoising preprocessing by means of median filtering to the pre-processed image. Then, the mean shift algorithm is used for image segmentation. The adjacent parts of the image with similar texture and spectrum are treated as the same class, and then the fine areas less than the maximum stroke width are reduced. On the basis , the road information is extracted by the stroke width transformation algorithm, and the information also contains a small amount of interference information such as spots (non-road). In order to further improve road extraction accuracy and reduce speckle and non-road area interference, the basic operations and combinations in mathematical morphology are used to optimize it. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can accurately extract the roads on high-resolution remote sensing images, and the better the road features, the better the extraction effect. However, the applicability of the algorithm is greatly affected by the surrounding objects.

scholarly journals Topological Space Knowledge Distillation for Compact Road Extraction in Optical Remote Sensing Images

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
pp. 3175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Geng ◽  
Xian Sun ◽  
Zhiyuan Yan ◽  
Wenhui Diao ◽  
Xin Gao
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Topological Space ◽  
Linear Structure ◽  
Optical Remote Sensing ◽  
Road Extraction ◽  
Remote Sensing Images ◽  
The Road ◽  
Topological Features ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Knowledge Distillation

Road extraction from optical remote sensing images has drawn much attention in recent decades and has a wide range of applications. Most of the previous studies rarely take into account the unique topological characteristics of the road. It is the most apparent feature of linear structure that describes the variety of connection relationships of the road. However, designing a particular topological feature extraction network usually results in a model that is too heavy and impractical. To address the problems mentioned above, in this paper, we propose a lightweight topological space network for road extraction based on knowledge distillation (TSKD-Road). Specifically, (1) narrow and short roads easily influence topological features extracted directly in optical remote sensing images. Therefore, we propose a denser teacher network for extracting road structures; (2) to enhance the weight of topological features, we propose a topological space loss calculation model with multiple widths and depths; (3) based on the above innovations, a topological space knowledge distillation framework is proposed, which aims to transfer different kinds of knowledge acquired in a heavy net to a lightweight net, while significantly improving the lightweight net’s accuracy. Experiments were conducted on two publicly available benchmark datasets, which show the obvious superiority and effectiveness of our network.

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