Bayesian U-Net for Segmenting Glaciers in SAR Imagery

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2101.03249v1
• Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2021 23:17:49 GMT
• Title: Bayesian U-Net for Segmenting Glaciers in SAR Imagery
• Authors: Andreas Hartmann, Amirabbas Davari, Thorsten Seehaus, Matthias Braun, Andreas Maier, Vincent Christlein
• Abstract summary: We propose to compute uncertainty and use it in an Uncertainty Optimization regime as a novel two-stage process. We show that feeding the uncertainty map to the network leads to 95.24% Dice similarity. This is an overall improvement in the segmentation performance compared to the state-of-the-art deterministic U-Net-based glacier segmentation pipelines.
• Score: 7.960675807187592
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Fluctuations of the glacier calving front have an important influence over the ice flow of whole glacier systems. It is therefore important to precisely monitor the position of the calving front. However, the manual delineation of SAR images is a difficult, laborious and subjective task. Convolutional neural networks have previously shown promising results in automating the glacier segmentation in SAR images, making them desirable for further exploration of their possibilities. In this work, we propose to compute uncertainty and use it in an Uncertainty Optimization regime as a novel two-stage process. By using dropout as a random sampling layer in a U-Net architecture, we create a probabilistic Bayesian Neural Network. With several forward passes, we create a sampling distribution, which can estimate the model uncertainty for each pixel in the segmentation mask. The additional uncertainty map information can serve as a guideline for the experts in the manual annotation of the data. Furthermore, feeding the uncertainty map to the network leads to 95.24% Dice similarity, which is an overall improvement in the segmentation performance compared to the state-of-the-art deterministic U-Net-based glacier segmentation pipelines.

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