Title
Scribble-Supervised Segmentation of Aerial Building Footprints Using Adversarial Learning.
Abstract
Aerial image segmentation usually requires a large amount of pixel-level masks in order to achieve quality performance. Obtaining these annotations can be both costly and time-consuming, limiting the amount of data available for training. In this paper, we present an approach for learning to segment aerial building footprints in the absence of fully annotated label masks. Instead, we exploit cheap and efficient scribble annotations to supervise deep convolutional neural networks for segmentation. Our proposed model is based on an adversarial architecture that jointly trains two networks to produce building footprint segmentations that resemble synthetic label masks. We present competitive segmentation results on the Massachusetts Buildings data set by using only scribble supervision signals. Further experiments show that our method effectively alleviates building instance separation issue and displays strong robustness towards different scribble instance levels. We believe our cost-effective approach has the potential to be adapted for other aerial image interpretation tasks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2874544
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Aerial image,generative adversarial network,image segmentation,weak supervision
Convolutional neural network,Computer science,Segmentation,Robustness (computer science),Exploit,Image segmentation,Aerial image,Footprint,Artificial intelligence,Machine learning,Semantics,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6
2169-3536
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Weimin Wu123643.97
Huan Qi242.11
Zhenrui Rong310.35
Liu Liang410010.08
Hongye Su53563187.46