scholarly journals Improving LULC Map Production via Semantic Segmentation and Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Rostyslav-Mykola Tsenov
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Network Architecture ◽  
Satellite Images ◽  
Domain Adaptation ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Semantic Segmentation ◽  
Wildlife Habitat ◽  
Landsat 8 ◽  
Sentinel 2

In recent years, a lot of remote sensing problems benefited from the improvements made in deep learning. In particular, deep learning semantic segmentation algorithms have provided improved frameworks for the automated production of land-use and land-cover (LULC) map generation. Automation of LULC map production can significantly increase its production frequency, which provides a great benefit to areas such as natural resource management, wildlife habitat protection, urban expansion, damage delineation, etc. In this thesis, many different convolutional neural networks (CNN) were examined in combination with various state-of-the-art semantic segmentation methods and extensions to improve the accuracy of predicted LULC maps. Most of the experiments were carried out using Landsat 5/7 and Landsat 8 satellite images. Additionally, unsupervised domain adaption (UDA) architectures were explored to transfer knowledge extracted from a labelled Landsat 8 dataset to unlabelled Sentinel-2 satellite images. The performance of various CNN and extension combinations were carefully assessed, where VGGNet with an output stride of 4, and modified U-Net architecture provided the best results. Additionally, an expanded analysis of the generated LULC maps for various sensors was provided. The contributions of this thesis are accurate automated LULC maps predictions that achieved ~92.4% of accuracy using deep neural networks; production of the model trained on the larger area, which is six times the size from the previous work, for both 8-bit Landsat 5/7, and 16-bit Landsat 8 sensors; and generation of the network architecture to produce LULC maps for the unlabelled 12-bit Sentinel-2 data with the knowledge extracted from the labelled Landsat 8 data.

scholarly journals Semantic Segmentation of Satellite Images: A Deep Learning Approach Integrated with Geospatial Hash Codes

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 2723
Author(s):  
Naisen Yang ◽  
Hong Tang
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Deep Neural Network ◽  
Satellite Images ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Semantic Segmentation ◽  
Binary Codes ◽  
Underlying Assumption ◽  
Hash Codes

Satellite images are always partitioned into regular patches with smaller sizes and then individually fed into deep neural networks (DNNs) for semantic segmentation. The underlying assumption is that these images are independent of one another in terms of geographic spatial information. However, it is well known that many land-cover or land-use categories share common regional characteristics within a certain spatial scale. For example, the style of buildings may change from one city or country to another. In this paper, we explore some deep learning approaches integrated with geospatial hash codes to improve the semantic segmentation results of satellite images. Specifically, the geographic coordinates of satellite images are encoded into a string of binary codes using the geohash method. Then, the binary codes of the geographic coordinates are fed into the deep neural network using three different methods in order to enhance the semantic segmentation ability of the deep neural network for satellite images. Experiments on three datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of embedding geographic coordinates into the neural networks. Our method yields a significant improvement over previous methods that do not use geospatial information.

scholarly journals Uni-Temporal Multispectral Imagery for Burned Area Mapping with Deep Learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 1509
Author(s):  
Xikun Hu ◽  
Yifang Ban ◽  
Andrea Nascetti
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Burned Area ◽  
Landsat 8 ◽  
Multispectral Imagery ◽  
Burned Areas ◽  
Local Climate Zones ◽  
Sentinel 2

Accurate burned area information is needed to assess the impacts of wildfires on people, communities, and natural ecosystems. Various burned area detection methods have been developed using satellite remote sensing measurements with wide coverage and frequent revisits. Our study aims to expound on the capability of deep learning (DL) models for automatically mapping burned areas from uni-temporal multispectral imagery. Specifically, several semantic segmentation network architectures, i.e., U-Net, HRNet, Fast-SCNN, and DeepLabv3+, and machine learning (ML) algorithms were applied to Sentinel-2 imagery and Landsat-8 imagery in three wildfire sites in two different local climate zones. The validation results show that the DL algorithms outperform the ML methods in two of the three cases with the compact burned scars, while ML methods seem to be more suitable for mapping dispersed burn in boreal forests. Using Sentinel-2 images, U-Net and HRNet exhibit comparatively identical performance with higher kappa (around 0.9) in one heterogeneous Mediterranean fire site in Greece; Fast-SCNN performs better than others with kappa over 0.79 in one compact boreal forest fire with various burn severity in Sweden. Furthermore, directly transferring the trained models to corresponding Landsat-8 data, HRNet dominates in the three test sites among DL models and can preserve the high accuracy. The results demonstrated that DL models can make full use of contextual information and capture spatial details in multiple scales from fire-sensitive spectral bands to map burned areas. Using only a post-fire image, the DL methods not only provide automatic, accurate, and bias-free large-scale mapping option with cross-sensor applicability, but also have potential to be used for onboard processing in the next Earth observation satellites.

scholarly journals Data augmentation for computed tomography angiography via synthetic image generation and neural domain adaptation

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Malte Seemann ◽  
Lennart Bargsten ◽  
Alexander Schlaefer
Keyword(s):  
Computed Tomography ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Medical Imaging ◽  
Computed Tomography Angiography ◽  
Data Augmentation ◽  
Domain Adaptation ◽  
Synthetic Image ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Impact

AbstractDeep learning methods produce promising results when applied to a wide range of medical imaging tasks, including segmentation of artery lumen in computed tomography angiography (CTA) data. However, to perform sufficiently, neural networks have to be trained on large amounts of high quality annotated data. In the realm of medical imaging, annotations are not only quite scarce but also often not entirely reliable. To tackle both challenges, we developed a two-step approach for generating realistic synthetic CTA data for the purpose of data augmentation. In the first step moderately realistic images are generated in a purely numerical fashion. In the second step these images are improved by applying neural domain adaptation. We evaluated the impact of synthetic data on lumen segmentation via convolutional neural networks (CNNs) by comparing resulting performances. Improvements of up to 5% in terms of Dice coefficient and 20% for Hausdorff distance represent a proof of concept that the proposed augmentation procedure can be used to enhance deep learning-based segmentation for artery lumen in CTA images.

scholarly journals Convolutional Neural Network for the Semantic Segmentation of Remote Sensing Images

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 200-215
Author(s):  
Muhammad Alam ◽  
Jian-Feng Wang ◽  
Cong Guangpei ◽  
LV Yunrong ◽  
Yuanfang Chen
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Image Processing ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Semantic Segmentation ◽  
Natural Scene ◽  
Remote Sensing Images ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Target Segmentation

AbstractIn recent years, the success of deep learning in natural scene image processing boosted its application in the analysis of remote sensing images. In this paper, we applied Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) on the semantic segmentation of remote sensing images. We improve the Encoder- Decoder CNN structure SegNet with index pooling and U-net to make them suitable for multi-targets semantic segmentation of remote sensing images. The results show that these two models have their own advantages and disadvantages on the segmentation of different objects. In addition, we propose an integrated algorithm that integrates these two models. Experimental results show that the presented integrated algorithm can exploite the advantages of both the models for multi-target segmentation and achieve a better segmentation compared to these two models.

scholarly journals SketchGNN: Semantic Sketch Segmentation with Graph Neural Networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Lumin Yang ◽  
Jiajie Zhuang ◽  
Hongbo Fu ◽  
Xiangzhi Wei ◽  
Kun Zhou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Network Architecture ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Semantic Segmentation ◽  
Structure Information ◽  
Graph Neural Networks ◽  
Node Labels ◽  
Point Level

We introduce SketchGNN , a convolutional graph neural network for semantic segmentation and labeling of freehand vector sketches. We treat an input stroke-based sketch as a graph with nodes representing the sampled points along input strokes and edges encoding the stroke structure information. To predict the per-node labels, our SketchGNN uses graph convolution and a static-dynamic branching network architecture to extract the features at three levels, i.e., point-level, stroke-level, and sketch-level. SketchGNN significantly improves the accuracy of the state-of-the-art methods for semantic sketch segmentation (by 11.2% in the pixel-based metric and 18.2% in the component-based metric over a large-scale challenging SPG dataset) and has magnitudes fewer parameters than both image-based and sequence-based methods.

scholarly journals Supervised conversion from Landsat-8 images to Sentinel-2 images with deep learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 182-208
Author(s):  
Sani M. Isa ◽  
Suharjito ◽  
Gede Putera Kusuma ◽  
Tjeng Wawan Cenggoro
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Landsat 8 ◽  
Sentinel 2

scholarly journals Classification of Skin Disease Using Deep Learning Neural Networks with MobileNet V2 and LSTM

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (8) ◽  
pp. 2852
Author(s):  
Parvathaneni Naga Srinivasu ◽  
Jalluri Gnana SivaSai ◽  
Muhammad Fazal Ijaz ◽  
Akash Kumar Bhoi ◽  
Wonjoon Kim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Skin Disease ◽  
Network Architecture ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Convolutional Networks ◽  
Occurrence Matrix

Deep learning models are efficient in learning the features that assist in understanding complex patterns precisely. This study proposed a computerized process of classifying skin disease through deep learning based MobileNet V2 and Long Short Term Memory (LSTM). The MobileNet V2 model proved to be efficient with a better accuracy that can work on lightweight computational devices. The proposed model is efficient in maintaining stateful information for precise predictions. A grey-level co-occurrence matrix is used for assessing the progress of diseased growth. The performance has been compared against other state-of-the-art models such as Fine-Tuned Neural Networks (FTNN), Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), Very Deep Convolutional Networks for Large-Scale Image Recognition developed by Visual Geometry Group (VGG), and convolutional neural network architecture that expanded with few changes. The HAM10000 dataset is used and the proposed method has outperformed other methods with more than 85% accuracy. Its robustness in recognizing the affected region much faster with almost 2× lesser computations than the conventional MobileNet model results in minimal computational efforts. Furthermore, a mobile application is designed for instant and proper action. It helps the patient and dermatologists identify the type of disease from the affected region’s image at the initial stage of the skin disease. These findings suggest that the proposed system can help general practitioners efficiently and effectively diagnose skin conditions, thereby reducing further complications and morbidity.

scholarly journals A Deep Learning Approach on Building Detection from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Images in Riverbank Monitoring

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 3921 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wuttichai Boonpook ◽  
Yumin Tan ◽  
Yinghua Ye ◽  
Peerapong Torteeka ◽  
Kritanai Torsri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Network Architecture ◽  
Semantic Segmentation ◽  
Water Levels ◽  
Building Detection ◽  
Network Training ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Open Standard ◽  
Uav Images ◽  
Uav Image

Buildings along riverbanks are likely to be affected by rising water levels, therefore the acquisition of accurate building information has great importance not only for riverbank environmental protection but also for dealing with emergency cases like flooding. UAV-based photographs are flexible and cloud-free compared to satellite images and can provide very high-resolution images up to centimeter level, while there exist great challenges in quickly and accurately detecting and extracting building from UAV images because there are usually too many details and distortions on UAV images. In this paper, a deep learning (DL)-based approach is proposed for more accurately extracting building information, in which the network architecture, SegNet, is used in the semantic segmentation after the network training on a completely labeled UAV image dataset covering multi-dimension urban settlement appearances along a riverbank area in Chongqing. The experiment results show that an excellent performance has been obtained in the detection of buildings from untrained locations with an average overall accuracy more than 90%. To verify the generality and advantage of the proposed method, the procedure is further evaluated by training and testing with another two open standard datasets which have a variety of building patterns and styles, and the final overall accuracies of building extraction are more than 93% and 95%, respectively.

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