NSegment : Noisy Segment Improves Remote Sensing Image Segmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19634v1
• Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 09:49:35 GMT
• Title: NSegment : Noisy Segment Improves Remote Sensing Image Segmentation
• Authors: Yechan Kim, DongHo Yoon, SooYeon Kim, Moongu Jeon,
• Abstract summary: Labeling errors in remote sensing (RS) image segmentation datasets often remain implicit and subtle due to ambiguous class boundaries, mixed pixels, shadows, complex terrain features, and subjective annotator bias.<n>We propose NSegment-a simple yet effective data augmentation solution to mitigate this issue.<n>Unlike traditional methods, it applies elastic transformations only to segmentation labels, varying intensity per sample in each training epoch to address annotation inconsistencies.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Labeling errors in remote sensing (RS) image segmentation datasets often remain implicit and subtle due to ambiguous class boundaries, mixed pixels, shadows, complex terrain features, and subjective annotator bias. Furthermore, the scarcity of annotated RS data due to high image acquisition and labeling costs complicates training noise-robust models. While sophisticated mechanisms such as label selection or noise correction might address this issue, they tend to increase training time and add implementation complexity. In this letter, we propose NSegment-a simple yet effective data augmentation solution to mitigate this issue. Unlike traditional methods, it applies elastic transformations only to segmentation labels, varying deformation intensity per sample in each training epoch to address annotation inconsistencies. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach improves the performance of RS image segmentation on various state-of-the-art models.

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