UAGLNet: Uncertainty-Aggregated Global-Local Fusion Network with Cooperative CNN-Transformer for Building Extraction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.12941v1
• Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2025 02:59:16 GMT
• Title: UAGLNet: Uncertainty-Aggregated Global-Local Fusion Network with Cooperative CNN-Transformer for Building Extraction
• Authors: Siyuan Yao, Dongxiu Liu, Taotao Li, Shengjie Li, Wenqi Ren, Xiaochun Cao,
• Abstract summary: Building extraction from remote sensing images is a challenging task due to the complex structure variations of buildings.<n>Existing methods employ convolutional or self-attention blocks to capture the multi-scale features in the segmentation models.<n>We present an Uncertainty-Aggregated Global-Local Fusion Network (UAGLNet) to exploit high-quality global-local visual semantics.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Building extraction from remote sensing images is a challenging task due to the complex structure variations of the buildings. Existing methods employ convolutional or self-attention blocks to capture the multi-scale features in the segmentation models, while the inherent gap of the feature pyramids and insufficient global-local feature integration leads to inaccurate, ambiguous extraction results. To address this issue, in this paper, we present an Uncertainty-Aggregated Global-Local Fusion Network (UAGLNet), which is capable to exploit high-quality global-local visual semantics under the guidance of uncertainty modeling. Specifically, we propose a novel cooperative encoder, which adopts hybrid CNN and transformer layers at different stages to capture the local and global visual semantics, respectively. An intermediate cooperative interaction block (CIB) is designed to narrow the gap between the local and global features when the network becomes deeper. Afterwards, we propose a Global-Local Fusion (GLF) module to complementarily fuse the global and local representations. Moreover, to mitigate the segmentation ambiguity in uncertain regions, we propose an Uncertainty-Aggregated Decoder (UAD) to explicitly estimate the pixel-wise uncertainty to enhance the segmentation accuracy. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves superior performance to other state-of-the-art methods. Our code is available at https://github.com/Dstate/UAGLNet

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