Conditional Generation of Synthetic Geospatial Images from Pixel-level and Feature-level Inputs

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2109.05201v1
• Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2021 06:58:19 GMT
• Title: Conditional Generation of Synthetic Geospatial Images from Pixel-level and Feature-level Inputs
• Authors: Xuerong Xiao, Swetava Ganguli, Vipul Pandey
• Abstract summary: We present a conditional generative model, called VAE-Info-cGAN, for synthesizing semantically rich images simultaneously conditioned on a pixel-level condition (PLC) and a feature-level condition (FLC) The proposed model can accurately generate various forms of macroscopic aggregates across different geographic locations while conditioned only on atemporal representation of the road network.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Training robust supervised deep learning models for many geospatial applications of computer vision is difficult due to dearth of class-balanced and diverse training data. Conversely, obtaining enough training data for many applications is financially prohibitive or may be infeasible, especially when the application involves modeling rare or extreme events. Synthetically generating data (and labels) using a generative model that can sample from a target distribution and exploit the multi-scale nature of images can be an inexpensive solution to address scarcity of labeled data. Towards this goal, we present a deep conditional generative model, called VAE-Info-cGAN, that combines a Variational Autoencoder (VAE) with a conditional Information Maximizing Generative Adversarial Network (InfoGAN), for synthesizing semantically rich images simultaneously conditioned on a pixel-level condition (PLC) and a macroscopic feature-level condition (FLC). Dimensionally, the PLC can only vary in the channel dimension from the synthesized image and is meant to be a task-specific input. The FLC is modeled as an attribute vector in the latent space of the generated image which controls the contributions of various characteristic attributes germane to the target distribution. Experiments on a GPS trajectories dataset show that the proposed model can accurately generate various forms of spatiotemporal aggregates across different geographic locations while conditioned only on a raster representation of the road network. The primary intended application of the VAE-Info-cGAN is synthetic data (and label) generation for targeted data augmentation for computer vision-based modeling of problems relevant to geospatial analysis and remote sensing.

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