Robust Semantic Segmentation By Dense Fusion Network On Blurred VHR Remote Sensing Images
This addresses the problem of accurate land use and mapping from UAV images for earth observation applications, though it is incremental by combining existing techniques for a specific domain.
The paper tackles robust semantic segmentation of very high-resolution remote sensing images under blur and damage by using multi-modality data (NIR, RGB, DSM) and a cascaded dense encoder-decoder network with SELayer fusion. The proposed RobustDenseNet achieves steady performance as image quality decreases, outperforming state-of-the-art models.
Robust semantic segmentation of VHR remote sensing images from UAV sensors is critical for earth observation, land use, land cover or mapping applications. Several factors such as shadows, weather disruption and camera shakes making this problem highly challenging, especially only using RGB images. In this paper, we propose the use of multi-modality data including NIR, RGB and DSM to increase robustness of segmentation in blurred or partially damaged VHR remote sensing images. By proposing a cascaded dense encoder-decoder network and the SELayer based fusion and assembling techniques, the proposed RobustDenseNet achieves steady performance when the image quality is decreasing, compared with the state-of-the-art semantic segmentation model.