Abstract
Deep learning methods based on Fully convolution networks (FCNs) have shown an impressive progress in building outline delineation from very high resolution (VHR) remote sensing (RS) imagery. Common issues still exist in extracting precise building shapes and outlines, often resulting in irregular edges and over smoothed corners. In this paper, we use PolyMapper, a recently introduced deep-learning framework that is able to predict object outlines in a vector representation directly. We have introduced two main modifications to this baseline method. First, we introduce EffcientNet as backbone feature encoder to our network, which uses compound coefficient to scale up all dimensions of depth/width/resolution uniformly, to improve the processing speed with fewer parameters. Second, we integrate a boundary refinement block (BRB) to strengthen the boundary feature learning and to further improve the accuracy of corner prediction. The results demonstrate that the end-to-end learnable model is capable of delineating polygons of building outlines that closely approximate the structure of reference labels. Experiments on the crowdAI building instance segmentation datasets show that our model outperforms PolyMapper in all COCO metrics, for instance showing a 0.13 higher mean Average Precision (AP) value and a 0.60 higher mean Average Recall value. Also qualitative results show that our method segments building instances of various shapes more accurately.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | XXIV ISPRS Congress, Commission II 2020 |
Editors | N. Paparoditis, C. Mallet, F. Lafarge, F. Remondino, I. Toschi, T. Fuse |
Publisher | International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) |
Pages | 731-735 |
Number of pages | 5 |
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Publication status | Published - 6 Aug 2020 |
Event | XXIVth ISPRS Congress 2020 - Virtual Event, Nice, France Duration: 4 Jul 2020 → 10 Jul 2020 Conference number: 24 http://www.isprs2020-nice.com |
Publication series
Name | International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives |
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Publisher | Copernicus |
Volume | 43-B2 |
ISSN (Print) | 1682-1750 |
Conference
Conference | XXIVth ISPRS Congress 2020 |
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Abbreviated title | ISPRS 2020 |
Country/Territory | France |
City | Nice |
Period | 4/07/20 → 10/07/20 |
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Keywords
- Building outline delineation
- Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN)
- Polygon prediction
- Recurrent neural networks