Journal of Xidian University ›› 2022, Vol. 49 ›› Issue (6): 67-75.doi: 10.19665/j.issn1001-2400.2022.06.009

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Algorithm for segmentation of remote sensing imagery using the improved Unet

LI Jiaojiao(),LIU Zhiqiang(),SONG Rui(),LI Yunsong()   

  1. The State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Networks,Xidian University,Xi’an 710071,China
  • Received:2022-02-17 Online:2022-12-20 Published:2023-02-09

Abstract:

Existing remote sensing image segmentation algorithms simply combine edge information with semantic information,they often fail to ensure an overall improvement in semantic modelling.To solve such problems,an improved remote sensing image segmentation algorithm using Unet networks is proposed.The improved algorithm adds an edge extraction module to the base encoder module.The module fuses the semantic feature information of the backbone network and the boundary feature information obtained from the input image by Canny operator and dilated mathematical morphological operations to learn the edges of remote sensing image.To further acquire global information of remote sensing images for improving segmentation accuracy,an edge-guided context aggregation module is proposed.This module enhances the intra-class consistency by capturing the long-distance dependencies between pixels in the boundary region and pixels inside the object,and then aggregates the contextual information.Under the test of the "Tianzhi Cup" AI Challenge dataset,the overall accuracy of the improved model reached about 84.5% and the average intersection ratio reached about 68.6%,with an accuracy improvement of 5.3% and 9.2% respectively compared with the Unet model.The improved model achieved an overall accuracy of 91.2% and 91.6% on the ISPRS Vaihingen and Potsdam benchmark datasets respectively,making it more suitable for accurate remote sensing image segmentation.

Key words: semantic segmentation, Canny, mathematical morphological operations, deep learning, image processing

CLC Number: 

  • TP391.4