Title
EU-Net: An Efficient Fully Convolutional Network for Building Extraction from Optical Remote Sensing Images
Abstract
Automatic building extraction from high-resolution remote sensing images has many practical applications, such as urban planning and supervision. However, fine details and various scales of building structures in high-resolution images bring new challenges to building extraction. An increasing number of neural network-based models have been proposed to handle these issues, while they are not efficient enough, and still suffer from the error ground truth labels. To this end, we propose an efficient end-to-end model, EU-Net, in this paper. We first design the dense spatial pyramid pooling (DSPP) to extract dense and multi-scale features simultaneously, which facilitate the extraction of buildings at all scales. Then, the focal loss is used in reverse to suppress the impact of the error labels in ground truth, making the training stage more stable. To assess the universality of the proposed model, we tested it on three public aerial remote sensing datasets: WHU aerial imagery dataset, Massachusetts buildings dataset, and Inria aerial image labeling dataset. Experimental results show that the proposed EU-Net is superior to the state-of-the-art models of all three datasets and increases the prediction efficiency by two to four times.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3390/rs11232813
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
building extraction,high-resolution aerial imagery,fully convolutional network,semantic segmentation
Journal
11
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
23
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wenchao Kang100.68
Yuming Xiang2156.30
Feng Wang3193.05
Hongjian You410317.44