Title
Fully Convolutional Network-Based Ensemble Method for Road Extraction From Aerial Images
Abstract
This letter proposed a road extraction method based on fully convolutional networks (FCNs) with an ensemble strategy in order to solve the imbalance of road and background areas in aerial images. By utilizing the FCN, we consider road extraction as a semantic segmentation problem. In the network, the weight of the loss function is modified because of the imbalance between the roads and backgrounds, and there will be a larger punishment if roads are wrongly classified as background. Since it is difficult to determine an appropriate weight of the loss function for a given image, an ensemble method based on spatial consistency (SC) is proposed. The result maps that are obtained from the FCNs with different loss functions are fused in our proposed ensemble strategy, which also avoids the determination of weights. Our method is tested using the Massachusetts road data set, and it was proven to be effective compared with the base fully convolutional model according to our experimental result.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/LGRS.2019.2953523
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Roads,Mathematical model,Image segmentation,Semantics,Convolution,Data mining,Neural networks
Journal
17
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
10
1545-598X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiangrong Zhang149348.70
Wenkang Ma200.34
Chen Li377.15
Jie Wu400.34
Xu Tang52210.14
Licheng Jiao65698475.84