Journal
REMOTE SENSING
Volume 13, Issue 15, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rs13152872
Keywords
remote sensing imagery; building extraction; super-resolution; deep learning
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Funding
- R&D Program of China [2017YFA0604500]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [U1839206]
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This study proposes a method for super-resolution building extraction using relatively low-resolution images through a two-stage framework, achieving high-resolution building extraction. Experimental results demonstrate that the method performs well at different super-resolution ratios and outperforms eight other methods.
Existing methods for building extraction from remotely sensed images strongly rely on aerial or satellite-based images with very high resolution, which are usually limited by spatiotemporally accessibility and cost. In contrast, relatively low-resolution images have better spatial and temporal availability but cannot directly contribute to fine- and/or high-resolution building extraction. In this paper, based on image super-resolution and segmentation techniques, we propose a two-stage framework (SRBuildingSeg) for achieving super-resolution (SR) building extraction using relatively low-resolution remotely sensed images. SRBuildingSeg can fully utilize inherent information from the given low-resolution images to achieve high-resolution building extraction. In contrast to the existing building extraction methods, we first utilize an internal pairs generation module (IPG) to obtain SR training datasets from the given low-resolution images and an edge-aware super-resolution module (EASR) to improve the perceptional features, following the dual-encoder building segmentation module (DES). Both qualitative and quantitative experimental results demonstrate that our proposed approach is capable of achieving high-resolution (e.g., 0.5 m) building extraction results at 2x, 4x and 8x SR. Our approach outperforms eight other methods with respect to the extraction result of mean Intersection over Union (mIoU) values by a ratio of 9.38%, 8.20%, and 7.89% with SR ratio factors of 2, 4, and 8, respectively. The results indicate that the edges and borders reconstructed in super-resolved images serve a pivotal role in subsequent building extraction and reveal the potential of the proposed approach to achieve super-resolution building extraction.
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