Ye, Z, Fu, Y, Gan, M et al. (3 more authors) (2019) Building Extraction from Very High Resolution Aerial Imagery Using Joint Attention Deep Neural Network. Remote Sensing, 11 (24). 2970. p. 2970. ISSN 2072-4292
Abstract
Automated methods to extract buildings from very high resolution (VHR) remote sensing data have many applications in a wide range of fields. Many convolutional neural network (CNN) based methods have been proposed and have achieved significant advances in the building extraction task. In order to refine predictions, a lot of recent approaches fuse features from earlier layers of CNNs to introduce abundant spatial information, which is known as skip connection. However, this strategy of reusing earlier features directly without processing could reduce the performance of the network. To address this problem, we propose a novel fully convolutional network (FCN) that adopts attention based re-weighting to extract buildings from aerial imagery. Specifically, we consider the semantic gap between features from different stages and leverage the attention mechanism to bridge the gap prior to the fusion of features. The inferred attention weights along spatial and channel-wise dimensions make the low level feature maps adaptive to high level feature maps in a target-oriented manner. Experimental results on three publicly available aerial imagery datasets show that the proposed model (RFA-UNet) achieves comparable and improved performance compared to other state-of-the-art models for building extraction.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Keywords: | building extraction; fully convolutional neural network (FCN); attention mechanism; high resolution aerial images |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Geography (Leeds) > Centre for Spatial Analysis & Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 29 Jan 2020 14:21 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 22:08 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Identification Number: | 10.3390/rs11242970 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:156170 |