Title
Water Areas Segmentation from Remote Sensing Images Using a Separable Residual SegNet Network.
Abstract
Changes on lakes and rivers are of great significance for the study of global climate change. Accurate segmentation of lakes and rivers is critical to the study of their changes. However, traditional water area segmentation methods almost all share the following deficiencies: high computational requirements, poor generalization performance, and low extraction accuracy. In recent years, semantic segmentation algorithms based on deep learning have been emerging. Addressing problems associated to a very large number of parameters, low accuracy, and network degradation during training process, this paper proposes a separable residual SegNet (SR-SegNet) to perform the water area segmentation using remote sensing images. On the one hand, without compromising the ability of feature extraction, the problem of network degradation is alleviated by adding modified residual blocks into the encoder, the number of parameters is limited by introducing depthwise separable convolutions, and the ability of feature extraction is improved by using dilated convolutions to expand the receptive field. On the other hand, SR-SegNet removes the convolution layers with relatively more convolution kernels in the encoding stage, and uses the cascading method to fuse the low-level and high-level features of the image. As a result, the whole network can obtain more spatial information. Experimental results show that the proposed method exhibits significant improvements over several traditional methods, including FCN, DeconvNet, and SegNet.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.3390/ijgi9040256
ISPRS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEO-INFORMATION
Keywords
DocType
Volume
semantic segmentation,water area segmentation,encoder-decoder,depthwise separable convolution,residual network
Journal
9
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
4
1
0.35
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Liguo Weng110.35
Yiming Xu210.35
Min Xia331.41
Yonghong Zhang473.89
Jia Liu510.35
Yiqing Xu6234.11