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End-to-End DSM Fusion Networks for Semantic Segmentation in High-Resolution Aerial Images

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Semantic segmentation in high-resolution aerial images is a fundamental research problem in remote sensing field for its wide range of applications. However, it is difficult to distinguish regions with similar… Click to show full abstract

Semantic segmentation in high-resolution aerial images is a fundamental research problem in remote sensing field for its wide range of applications. However, it is difficult to distinguish regions with similar spectral features using only multispectral data. Recent research studies have indicated that the introduction of multisource information can effectively improve the robustness of segmentation method. In this letter, we use digital surface models (DSMs) information as a complementary feature to further improve the semantic segmentation results. To this end, we propose a lightweight and simple DSM fusion (DSMF) branch structure module. Compared with the existing feature extraction structures, proposed DSMF module is simple and can be easily applied to other networks. In addition, we investigate four fusion strategies based on DSMF module to explore the optimal feature fusion strategy and four end-to-end DSMFNets are designed according to the corresponding strategies. We evaluate our models on International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Vaihingen data set and all DSMFNets achieve promising results. In particular, DSMFNet-1 achieves an overall accuracy of 91.5% on the test data set.

Keywords: end; high resolution; fusion; segmentation high; semantic segmentation; segmentation

Journal Title: IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
Year Published: 2019

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