5 August 2021 Lightweight multiscale framework for segmentation of high-resolution remote sensing imagery
Inuwa M. Bello, Zhang Ke, Wang Jingyu, Haoyu Li
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Abstract

Deep convolutional neural network semantic segmentation has played a significant role in remote sensing applications due to its capability of end-to-end training and automatic high-level features extraction. Highly accurate predictions have been recorded from different network architectures that are designed using the convolutional layers. However, the accuracy is mainly achieved at a very high cost of computation, which renders the network infeasible for real-time application on resource-constrained devices. Therefore, there is a need to establish a trade-off between accuracy and model efficiency. Our paper proposes a lightweight, highly accurate, memory-efficient segmentation network capable of deployment on resource-constrained devices. Our proposed network of 1.09 million trainable parameters attains an appreciable accuracy of 89.41% and 88.78% on the Vaihingen and Potsdam respective dataset of the ISPRS 2D Semantic Labeling Challenge. The result from the speed and the memory efficiency experiment shows that our proposed network is suitable for real-time remote sensing applications.

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Inuwa M. Bello, Zhang Ke, Wang Jingyu, and Haoyu Li "Lightweight multiscale framework for segmentation of high-resolution remote sensing imagery," Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 15(3), 034508 (5 August 2021). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.15.034508
Received: 19 February 2021; Accepted: 22 July 2021; Published: 5 August 2021
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KEYWORDS
Image segmentation

Remote sensing

Convolution

Network architectures

Data modeling

Feature extraction

Performance modeling

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