Title
Building Extraction from High-Resolution Aerial Imagery Using a Generative Adversarial Network with Spatial and Channel Attention Mechanisms.
Abstract
Segmentation of high-resolution remote sensing images is an important challenge with wide practical applications. The increasing spatial resolution provides fine details for image segmentation but also incurs segmentation ambiguities. In this paper, we propose a generative adversarial network with spatial and channel attention mechanisms (GAN-SCA) for the robust segmentation of buildings in remote sensing images. The segmentation network (generator) of the proposed framework is composed of the well-known semantic segmentation architecture (U-Net) and the spatial and channel attention mechanisms (SCA). The adoption of SCA enables the segmentation network to selectively enhance more useful features in specific positions and channels and enables improved results closer to the ground truth. The discriminator is an adversarial network with channel attention mechanisms that can properly discriminate the outputs of the generator and the ground truth maps. The segmentation network and adversarial network are trained in an alternating fashion on the Inria aerial image labeling dataset and Massachusetts buildings dataset. Experimental results show that the proposed GAN-SCA achieves a higher score (the overall accuracy and intersection over the union of Inria aerial image labeling dataset are 96.61% and 77.75%, respectively, and the F-1-measure of the Massachusetts buildings dataset is 96.36%) and outperforms several state-of-the-art approaches.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3390/rs11080917
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
Field
DocType
high-resolution aerial images,deep learning,generative adversarial network,semantic segmentation,Inria aerial image labeling dataset,Massachusetts buildings dataset
Computer vision,Generative adversarial network,Communication channel,Artificial intelligence,Deep learning,Geology,Aerial imagery
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
11
8
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xuran Pan121.73
Fan Yang231.41
Lianru Gao337359.90
Zhengchao Chen42210.85
Bing Zhang542274.10
Hairui Fan620.38
Jinchang Ren7114488.54