Foreground-Aware Relation Network for Geospatial Object Segmentation in High Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2011.09766v1
• Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 10:57:43 GMT
• Title: Foreground-Aware Relation Network for Geospatial Object Segmentation in High Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery
• Authors: Zhuo Zheng, Yanfei Zhong, Junjue Wang, Ailong Ma
• Abstract summary: Geospatial object segmentation always faces with larger-scale variation, larger intra-class variance of background, and foreground-background imbalance. We propose a foreground-aware relation network (FarSeg) from the perspectives of relation-based and optimization-based foreground modeling. Experiments show that FarSeg is superior to the state-of-the-art general semantic segmentation methods and achieves a better trade-off between speed and accuracy.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Geospatial object segmentation, as a particular semantic segmentation task, always faces with larger-scale variation, larger intra-class variance of background, and foreground-background imbalance in the high spatial resolution (HSR) remote sensing imagery. However, general semantic segmentation methods mainly focus on scale variation in the natural scene, with inadequate consideration of the other two problems that usually happen in the large area earth observation scene. In this paper, we argue that the problems lie on the lack of foreground modeling and propose a foreground-aware relation network (FarSeg) from the perspectives of relation-based and optimization-based foreground modeling, to alleviate the above two problems. From perspective of relation, FarSeg enhances the discrimination of foreground features via foreground-correlated contexts associated by learning foreground-scene relation. Meanwhile, from perspective of optimization, a foreground-aware optimization is proposed to focus on foreground examples and hard examples of background during training for a balanced optimization. The experimental results obtained using a large scale dataset suggest that the proposed method is superior to the state-of-the-art general semantic segmentation methods and achieves a better trade-off between speed and accuracy. Code has been made available at: \url{https://github.com/Z-Zheng/FarSeg}.

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