Journal
REMOTE SENSING
Volume 13, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rs13020239
Keywords
multitask learning; convolutional neural networks; road surface extraction; road centerline extraction; VHR remote sensing images
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Funding
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFB0505401]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41890820, 41771452, 41771454, 41901340]
- Key Research and Development Program of Yunnan province in China [2018IB023]
- Ministry of Natural Resources of China [4201.240100123]
- Natural Science Fund of Hubei Province in China [2018CFA007]
- National Major Project on High Resolution Earth Observation System [GFZX0403260306]
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This study focuses on the automatic extraction of road surface and road centerline from VHR remote sensing images using a multitask convolutional neural network model. The proposed algorithm utilizes features extracted from the road as a condition for centerline extraction and addresses the issue of insufficient road centerline samples through information transmission and parameter sharing between the two tasks. Experimental results demonstrate that the algorithm outperforms several comparative methods in terms of classification precision and visual interpretation.
Automatic extraction of the road surface and road centerline from very high-resolution (VHR) remote sensing images has always been a challenging task in the field of feature extraction. Most existing road datasets are based on data with simple and clear backgrounds under ideal conditions, such as images derived from Google Earth. Therefore, the studies on road surface extraction and road centerline extraction under complex scenes are insufficient. Meanwhile, most existing efforts addressed these two tasks separately, without considering the possible joint extraction of road surface and centerline. With the introduction of multitask convolutional neural network models, it is possible to carry out these two tasks simultaneously by facilitating information sharing within a multitask deep learning model. In this study, we first design a challenging dataset using remote sensing images from the GF-2 satellite. The dataset contains complex road scenes with manually annotated images. We then propose a two-task and end-to-end convolution neural network, termed Multitask Road-related Extraction Network (MRENet), for road surface extraction and road centerline extraction. We take features extracted from the road as the condition of centerline extraction, and the information transmission and parameter sharing between the two tasks compensate for the potential problem of insufficient road centerline samples. In the network design, we use atrous convolutions and a pyramid scene parsing pooling module (PSP pooling), aiming to expand the network receptive field, integrate multilevel features, and obtain more abundant information. In addition, we use a weighted binary cross-entropy function to alleviate the background imbalance problem. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms several comparative methods in the aspects of classification precision and visual interpretation.
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