Title
A Modular CNN-based Building Detector for Remote Sensing Images
Abstract
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have resurged lately due to their state-of-the-art performance in various disciplines, such as computer vision, audio and text processing. However, CNNs have not been widely employed for remote sensing applications. In this paper, we propose a CNN architecture, named Modular-CNN, to improve the performance of building detectors that employ Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) and Local Binary Patterns (LBP) in a remote sensing dataset. Additionally, we propose two improvements to increase the classification accuracy of Modular-CNN. The first improvement combines the power of raw and normalised features, while the second one concerns the Euler transformation of feature vectors. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed Modular-CNN and the novel improvements in remote sensing and other datasets in a comparative study with other state-of-the-art methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.comnet.2019.107034
Computer Networks
Keywords
Field
DocType
Remote sensing,Modular-CNN,Building detection
Feature vector,Computer science,Convolutional neural network,Remote sensing,Local binary patterns,Remote sensing application,Histogram of oriented gradients,Modular design,Detector,Text processing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
168
1389-1286
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dimitrios Konstantinidis100.34
Vasileios Argyriou227930.51
Tania Stathaki335937.45
Grammalidis, N.491.68