Extracting building contours from aerial images is a fundamental task in remote sensing.Current building extraction methods cannot accurately extract building contour information and have errors in extracting small-sc...Extracting building contours from aerial images is a fundamental task in remote sensing.Current building extraction methods cannot accurately extract building contour information and have errors in extracting small-scale buildings.This paper introduces a novel dense feature iterative(DFI)fusion network,denoted as DFINet,for extracting building contours.The network uses a DFI decoder to fuse semantic information at different scales and learns the building contour knowledge,producing the last features through iterative fusion.The dense feature fusion(DFF)module combines features at multiple scales.We employ the contour reconstruction(CR)module to access the final predictions.Extensive experiments validate the effectiveness of the DFINet on two different remote sensing datasets,INRIA aerial image dataset and Wuhan University(WHU)building dataset.On the INRIA aerial image dataset,our method achieves the highest intersection over union(IoU),overall accuracy(OA)and F 1 scores compared to other state-of-the-art methods.展开更多
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61903078)Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,China(No.2232021A-10)+1 种基金Shanghai Sailing Program,China(No.22YF1401300)Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai,China(No.20ZR1400400)。
文摘Extracting building contours from aerial images is a fundamental task in remote sensing.Current building extraction methods cannot accurately extract building contour information and have errors in extracting small-scale buildings.This paper introduces a novel dense feature iterative(DFI)fusion network,denoted as DFINet,for extracting building contours.The network uses a DFI decoder to fuse semantic information at different scales and learns the building contour knowledge,producing the last features through iterative fusion.The dense feature fusion(DFF)module combines features at multiple scales.We employ the contour reconstruction(CR)module to access the final predictions.Extensive experiments validate the effectiveness of the DFINet on two different remote sensing datasets,INRIA aerial image dataset and Wuhan University(WHU)building dataset.On the INRIA aerial image dataset,our method achieves the highest intersection over union(IoU),overall accuracy(OA)and F 1 scores compared to other state-of-the-art methods.