scholarly journals Automatic Building Detection with Polygonizing and Attribute Extraction from High-Resolution Images

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 606
Author(s):  
Samitha Daranagama ◽  
Apichon Witayangkurn

Buildings can be introduced as a fundamental element for forming a city. Therefore, up-to-date building maps have become vital for many applications, including urban mapping and urban expansion analysis. With the development of deep learning, segmenting building footprints from high-resolution remote sensing imagery has become a subject of intense study. Here, a modified version of the U-Net architecture with a combination of pre- and post-processing techniques was developed to extract building footprints from high-resolution aerial imagery and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery. Data pre-processing with the logarithmic correction image enhancing algorithm showed the most significant improvement in the building detection accuracy for aerial images; meanwhile, the CLAHE algorithm improved the most concerning UAV images. This study developed a post-processing technique using polygonizing and polygon smoothing called the Douglas–Peucker algorithm, which made the building output directly ready to use for different applications. The attribute information, land use data, and population count data were applied using two open datasets. In addition, the building area and perimeter of each building were calculated as geometric attributes.

2019 ◽  
Vol 135 ◽  
pp. 01064
Author(s):  
Vladimir Khryaschev ◽  
Leonid Ivanovsky

The goal of our research was to develop methods based on convolutional neural networks for automatically extracting the locations of buildings from high-resolution aerial images. To analyze the quality of developed deep learning algorithms, there was used Sorensen-Dice coefficient of similarity which compares results of algorithms with real masks. These masks were generated automatically from json files and sliced on smaller parts together with respective aerial photos before the training of developed convolutional neural networks. This approach allows us to cope with the problem of segmentation for high-resolution satellite images. All in all we show how deep neural networks implemented and launched on modern GPUs of high-performance supercomputer NVIDIA DGX-1 can be used to efficiently learn and detect needed objects. The problem of building detection on satellite images can be put into practice for urban planning, building control of some municipal objects, search of the best locations for future outlets etc.


2017 ◽  
Vol 927 (9) ◽  
pp. 22-29
Author(s):  
V.I. Kravtsovа ◽  
E.R. Chalova

Anapa bay bar is a valuable recreational-medical resource. Digital landscape-morphological mapping of its the Northern-Western part was created by digital aero survey materials for monitoring of its statement. Compiled maps show that in the Western part of region dune belt is degradated, front dune hills destroyed due to spreading of settlement Veselovka buildings to beach, and due to mass enactments carrying out at bay bar of lake Solenoe. Here it is necessary to decide the problem of defense from waves flooding by construction of artificial hills. The middle part of region, around Bugaz lagoon, is using for unregulated recreation of extreme sportsmen – windsurfing and kiting – with seasonal recreation in camping from tent-city and campers. Many short roads to sea beach, orthogonal to coast line, have been transformed to corridors of blowing and sea waves interaction to lagoon lowland with dune belt destroying. In the Eastern part of region, at Bugaz bay bar, dune belt is conserve, it changes under natural sea and wind processes action. At some places sea waves are erode windward front dune slope. Just everywhere sand accumulative trains are forming at leeward slope of front dune. Showed peculiarities of landscape morphological structure mast be taken in account due treatment of measures for bay bar defense and keeping.


Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 1426
Author(s):  
Chuanyang Liu ◽  
Yiquan Wu ◽  
Jingjing Liu ◽  
Jiaming Han

Insulator detection is an essential task for the safety and reliable operation of intelligent grids. Owing to insulator images including various background interferences, most traditional image-processing methods cannot achieve good performance. Some You Only Look Once (YOLO) networks are employed to meet the requirements of actual applications for insulator detection. To achieve a good trade-off among accuracy, running time, and memory storage, this work proposes the modified YOLO-tiny for insulator (MTI-YOLO) network for insulator detection in complex aerial images. First of all, composite insulator images are collected in common scenes and the “CCIN_detection” (Chinese Composite INsulator) dataset is constructed. Secondly, to improve the detection accuracy of different sizes of insulator, multi-scale feature detection headers, a structure of multi-scale feature fusion, and the spatial pyramid pooling (SPP) model are adopted to the MTI-YOLO network. Finally, the proposed MTI-YOLO network and the compared networks are trained and tested on the “CCIN_detection” dataset. The average precision (AP) of our proposed network is 17% and 9% higher than YOLO-tiny and YOLO-v2. Compared with YOLO-tiny and YOLO-v2, the running time of the proposed network is slightly higher. Furthermore, the memory usage of the proposed network is 25.6% and 38.9% lower than YOLO-v2 and YOLO-v3, respectively. Experimental results and analysis validate that the proposed network achieves good performance in both complex backgrounds and bright illumination conditions.


2016 ◽  
Vol 139 ◽  
pp. 120-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumedh M. Joshi ◽  
Peter J. Diamessis ◽  
Derek T. Steinmoeller ◽  
Marek Stastna ◽  
Greg N. Thomsen

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