Title
Semantic Segmentation of Satellite Images Using a U-Shaped Fully Connected Network with Dense Residual Blocks
Abstract
Semantic segmentation is the task of clustering pixels into an object class. In the field of remote sensing semantic segmentation has wide applications ranging from scene cover classification to change detection for scene understanding. With the success of deep learning algorithms for classification tasks, there has been much work to apply convolutional neural networks in remote sensing with much success. However, feature extraction of high resolution remote sensing imagery poses a challenge when applying such networks. In particular, there is a need to extract high level features while maintaining an objects resolution in the networks feature space. This work proposes an efficient deep fully convolution architecture that obtains high level features without loss of spatial resolution by replacing the standard convolutional layers in U-Net with dense residual blocks. By stacking identity blocks, we allow the input to flow through the network at every proceeding layer. Our network is termed DRU-Net, and is shown to outperform standard U-Net.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ICMEW.2019.00037
2019 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo Workshops (ICMEW)
Keywords
Field
DocType
U-Net,dense skip connection,semantic segmentation,satellite image
Computer vision,Feature vector,Change detection,Pattern recognition,Segmentation,Convolutional neural network,Computer science,Feature extraction,Artificial intelligence,Deep learning,Cluster analysis,Image resolution
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2330-7927
978-1-5386-9215-8
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
4
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eric Narciso Molina100.34
Zenghui Zhang25010.29