Fully Convolutional Networks and Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis for the Classification of VHR Imagery

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作者
Mboga, Nicholus [1 ]
Georganos, Stefanos [1 ]
Grippa, Tais [1 ]
Lennert, Moritz [1 ]
Vanhuysse, Sabine [1 ]
Wolff, Eleonore [1 ]
机构
[1] ULB, Dept Geosci Environm & Soc, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
关键词
fully convolutional networks; convolutional neural networks; remote sensing; very high resolution; landcover classification; geographical object-based image analysis; NEURAL-NETWORKS; SELECTION;
D O I
10.3390/rs11050597
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Land cover Classified maps obtained from deep learning methods such as Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and fully convolutional networks (FCNs) usually have high classification accuracy but with the detailed structures of objects lost or smoothed. In this work, we develop a methodology based on fully convolutional networks (FCN) that is trained in an end-to-end fashion using aerial RGB images only as input. Skip connections are introduced into the FCN architecture to recover high spatial details from the lower convolutional layers. The experiments are conducted on the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo. We compare the results to a state-of-the art approach based on a semi-automatic Geographic object image-based analysis (GEOBIA) processing chain. State-of-the art classification accuracies are obtained by both methods whereby FCN and the best baseline method have an overall accuracy of 91.3% and 89.5% respectively. The maps have good visual quality and the use of an FCN skip architecture minimizes the rounded edges that is characteristic of FCN maps. Additional experiments are done to refine FCN classified maps using segments obtained from GEOBIA generated at different scale and minimum segment size. High OA of up to 91.5% is achieved accompanied with an improved edge delineation in the FCN maps, and future work will involve explicitly incorporating boundary information from the GEOBIA segmentation into the FCN pipeline in an end-to-end fashion. Finally, we observe that FCN has a lower computational cost than the standard patch-based CNN approach especially at inference.
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