2021
DOI: 10.3390/land10010079
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Generative Learning for Postprocessing Semantic Segmentation Predictions: A Lightweight Conditional Generative Adversarial Network Based on Pix2pix to Improve the Extraction of Road Surface Areas

Abstract: Remote sensing experts have been actively using deep neural networks to solve extraction tasks in high-resolution aerial imagery by means of supervised semantic segmentation operations. However, the extraction operation is imperfect, due to the complex nature of geospatial objects, limitations of sensing resolution, or occlusions present in the scenes. In this work, we tackle the challenge of postprocessing semantic segmentation predictions of road surface areas obtained with a state-of-the-art segmentation mo… Show more

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“…The pix2pix is a conditional generative adversarial network (cGAN) that aims to learn mapping functions from input images to outputs, pixel by pixel. 16,17 However, the pix2pix algorithm’s architecture depends on only two main networks: discriminator and generator. Therefore, it works accordingly to learn how to translate the corresponding image from one domain to another.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The pix2pix is a conditional generative adversarial network (cGAN) that aims to learn mapping functions from input images to outputs, pixel by pixel. 16,17 However, the pix2pix algorithm’s architecture depends on only two main networks: discriminator and generator. Therefore, it works accordingly to learn how to translate the corresponding image from one domain to another.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In Refs. [32,33], generative adversarial networks (GANs) are used to segment road networks in RS images. GANs contain two main components: a generator and a discriminator.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although there are many works tackling road surface area extraction, post-processing the segmentation predictions is still an active area of research. In [41], we studied the post-processing of semantic segmentation predictions via image-to-image translation operations and proposed a method based on Pix2pix [14], observing impressive results. We believe that another important post-processing application, directly applicable to remote sensing and geospatial element detection, is the inpainting operation, which can be used to reconstruct missing segments by filling in missing parts of the initial semantic segmentation mask.…”
Section: Related Workmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The input tiles of 256 × 256 pixels in size are divided into four patches of 128 × 128 (instead of 32 × 32, as proposed in the original implementation) to decrease the probability of patches not containing any road element. Each of them is evaluated, and the final decision is the average of the score obtained in each of the four patches (as described in Figure 5 of [41]).…”
Section: Discriminator Dmentioning
confidence: 99%