Damage detection on building façades using multi-temporal aerial oblique imagery

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Abstract

Over the past decades, a special interest has been given to remote-sensing imagery to automate the detection of damaged buildings. Given the large areas it may cover and the possibility of automation of the damage detection process, when comparing with lengthy and costly ground observations. Currently, most image-based damage detection approaches rely on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). These are used to determine if a given image patch shows damage or not in a binary classification approach. However, such approaches are often trained using image samples containing only debris and rubble piles. Since such approaches often aim at detecting partial or totally collapsed buildings from remote-sensing imagery. Hence, such approaches might not be applicable when the aim is to detect façade damages. This is due to the fact that façade damages also include spalling, cracks and other small signs of damage. Only a few studies focus their damage analysis on the façade and a multi-temporal approach is still missing. In this paper, a multi-temporal approach specifically designed for the image classification of façade damages is presented. To this end, three multi-temporal approaches are compared with two mono-temporal approaches. Regarding the multi-temporal approaches the objective is to understand the optimal fusion between the two imagery epochs within a CNN. The results show that the multi-temporal approaches outperform the mono-temporal ones by up to 22% in accuracy.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
Subtitle of host publicationISPRS Geospatial Week 2019
EditorsG. Vosselman, S.J. Oude Elberink, M.Y. Yang
Place of PublicationEnschede
PublisherInternational Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS)
Pages29-36
Number of pages8
VolumeIV
Edition2/W5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 29 May 2019
Event4th ISPRS Geospatial Week 2019 - University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
Duration: 10 Jun 201914 Jun 2019
Conference number: 4
https://www.gsw2019.org/

Publication series

NameISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
PublisherCopernicus
ISSN (Print)2194-9042

Conference

Conference4th ISPRS Geospatial Week 2019
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityEnschede
Period10/06/1914/06/19
Internet address

Keywords

  • ITC-GOLD

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