General-Purpose Multimodal Transformer meets Remote Sensing Semantic Segmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.03388v1
• Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2023 04:58:34 GMT
• Title: General-Purpose Multimodal Transformer meets Remote Sensing Semantic Segmentation
• Authors: Nhi Kieu, Kien Nguyen, Sridha Sridharan, Clinton Fookes
• Abstract summary: Multimodal AI seeks to exploit complementary data sources, particularly for complex tasks like semantic segmentation. Recent trends in general-purpose multimodal networks have shown great potential to achieve state-of-the-art performance. We propose a UNet-inspired module that employs 3D convolution to encode vital local information and learn cross-modal features simultaneously.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: The advent of high-resolution multispectral/hyperspectral sensors, LiDAR DSM (Digital Surface Model) information and many others has provided us with an unprecedented wealth of data for Earth Observation. Multimodal AI seeks to exploit those complementary data sources, particularly for complex tasks like semantic segmentation. While specialized architectures have been developed, they are highly complicated via significant effort in model design, and require considerable re-engineering whenever a new modality emerges. Recent trends in general-purpose multimodal networks have shown great potential to achieve state-of-the-art performance across multiple multimodal tasks with one unified architecture. In this work, we investigate the performance of PerceiverIO, one in the general-purpose multimodal family, in the remote sensing semantic segmentation domain. Our experiments reveal that this ostensibly universal network struggles with object scale variation in remote sensing images and fails to detect the presence of cars from a top-down view. To address these issues, even with extreme class imbalance issues, we propose a spatial and volumetric learning component. Specifically, we design a UNet-inspired module that employs 3D convolution to encode vital local information and learn cross-modal features simultaneously, while reducing network computational burden via the cross-attention mechanism of PerceiverIO. The effectiveness of the proposed component is validated through extensive experiments comparing it with other methods such as 2D convolution, and dual local module (\ie the combination of Conv2D 1x1 and Conv2D 3x3 inspired by UNetFormer). The proposed method achieves competitive results with specialized architectures like UNetFormer and SwinUNet, showing its potential to minimize network architecture engineering with a minimal compromise on the performance.

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