Correg-Yolov3:a Method for Dense Buildings Detection in High-resolution Remote Sensing Images

The exploration of building detection plays an important role in urban planning,smart city and military.Aiming at the problem of high overlapping ratio of detection frames for dense building detection in high resolution remote sensing images,we present an effective YOLOv3 framework,corner regression-based YOLOv3(Correg-YOLOv3),to localize dense building accurately.This improved YOLOv3 algorithm establishes a vertex regression mechanism and an additional loss item about building vertex offsets relative to the center point of bounding box.By extending output dimensions,the trained model is able to output the rectangular bounding boxes and the building vertices meanwhile.Finally,we evaluate the performance of the Correg-YOLOv3 on our self-produced data set and provide a comparative analysis qualitatively and quantitatively.The experimental results achieve high performance in precision(96.45%),recall rate(95.75%),F1 score(96.10%)and average precision(98.05%),which were 2.73%,5.4%,4.1%and 4.73%higher than that of YOLOv3.Therefore,our proposed algorithm effectively tackles the problem of dense building detection in high resolution images.

Extensive identification of landslide boundaries using remote sensing images and deep learning method

The frequent occurrence of extreme weather events has rendered numerous landslides to a global natural disaster issue.It is crucial to rapidly and accurately determine the boundaries of landslides for geohazards evaluation and emergency response.Therefore,the Skip Connection DeepLab neural network(SCDnn),a deep learning model based on 770 optical remote sensing images of landslide,is proposed to improve the accuracy of landslide boundary detection.The SCDnn model is optimized for the over-segmentation issue which occurs in conventional deep learning models when there is a significant degree of similarity between topographical geomorphic features.SCDnn exhibits notable improvements in landslide feature extraction and semantic segmentation by combining an enhanced Atrous Spatial Pyramid Convolutional Block(ASPC)with a coding structure that reduces model complexity.The experimental results demonstrate that SCDnn can identify landslide boundaries in 119 images with MIoU values between 0.8and 0.9;while 52 images with MIoU values exceeding 0.9,which exceeds the identification accuracy of existing techniques.This work can offer a novel technique for the automatic extensive identification of landslide boundaries in remote sensing images in addition to establishing the groundwork for future inve stigations and applications in related domains.

An Intelligent Detection Method for Optical Remote Sensing Images Based on Improved YOLOv7

To address the issue of imbalanced detection performance and detection speed in current mainstream object detection algorithms for optical remote sensing images,this paper proposes a multi-scale object detection model for remote sensing images on complex backgrounds,called DI-YOLO,based on You Only Look Once v7-tiny(YOLOv7-tiny).Firstly,to enhance the model’s ability to capture irregular-shaped objects and deformation features,as well as to extract high-level semantic information,deformable convolutions are used to replace standard convolutions in the original model.Secondly,a Content Coordination Attention Feature Pyramid Network(CCA-FPN)structure is designed to replace the Neck part of the original model,which can further perceive relationships between different pixels,reduce feature loss in remote sensing images,and improve the overall model’s ability to detect multi-scale objects.Thirdly,an Implicitly Efficient Decoupled Head(IEDH)is proposed to increase the model’s flexibility,making it more adaptable to complex detection tasks in various scenarios.Finally,the Smoothed Intersection over Union(SIoU)loss function replaces the Complete Intersection over Union(CIoU)loss function in the original model,resulting in more accurate prediction of bounding boxes and continuous model optimization.Experimental results on the High-Resolution Remote Sensing Detection(HRRSD)dataset demonstrate that the proposed DI-YOLO model outperforms mainstream target detection algorithms in terms of mean Average Precision(mAP)for optical remote sensing image detection.Furthermore,it achieves Frames Per Second(FPS)of 138.9,meeting fast and accurate detection requirements.

Edge detection method for remote sensing image based on morphological variable structuring element

There are problems such as incomplete edges and poor noise suppression when a single fixed morphological structuring element is used to detect the edges in remote sensing images. For this reason, a morphological edge detection method for remote sensing image based on variable structuring element is proposed. Firstly, the structuring elements with different scales and multiple directions are constructed according to the diversity of remote sensing imagery targets. In order to suppress the noise of the target background and highlight the edge of the image target in the remote sensing image by adaptive Top hat and Bottom hat transform, the corresponding adaptive morphological operations are constructed based on variable structuring elements; Secondly, adaptive morphological edge detection is used to obtain multiple images with different scales and directional edge features; Finally, the image edges are obtained by weighted summation of each direction edge, and then the least square is used to fit the edges for accurate location of the edge contour of the target. The experimental results show that the proposed method not only can detect the complete edge of remote sensing image, but also has high edge detection accuracy and superior anti-noise performance. Compared with classical edge detection and the morphological edge detection with a fixed single structuring element, the proposed method performs better in edge detection effect, and the accuracy of detection can reach 95 %

Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images Using Picture Fuzzy Clustering and MapReduce

In image processing, one of the most important steps is image segmentation. The objects in remote sensing images often have to be detected in order toperform next steps in image processing. Remote sensing images usually havelarge size and various spatial resolutions. Thus, detecting objects in remote sensing images is very complicated. In this paper, we develop a model to detectobjects in remote sensing images based on the combination of picture fuzzy clustering and MapReduce method (denoted as MPFC). Firstly, picture fuzzy clustering is applied to segment the input images. Then, MapReduce is used to reducethe runtime with the guarantee of quality. To convert data for MapReduce processing, two new procedures are introduced, including Map_PFC and Reduce_PFC.The formal representation and details of two these procedures are presented in thispaper. The experiments on satellite image and remote sensing image datasets aregiven to evaluate proposed model. Validity indices and time consuming are usedto compare proposed model to picture fuzzy clustering model. The values ofvalidity indices show that picture fuzzy clustering integrated to MapReduce getsbetter quality of segmentation than using picture fuzzy clustering only. Moreover,on two selected image datasets, the run time of MPFC model is much less thanthat of picture fuzzy clustering.

Salient Object Detection from Multi-spectral Remote Sensing Images with Deep Residual Network

alient object detection aims at identifying the visually interesting object regions that are consistent with human perception. Multispectral remote sensing images provide rich radiometric information in revealing the physical properties of the observed objects, which leads to great potential to perform salient object detection for remote sensing images. Conventional salient object detection methods often employ handcrafted features to predict saliency by evaluating the pixel-wise or superpixel-wise contrast. With the recent use of deep learning framework, in particular, fully convolutional neural networks, there has been profound progress in visual saliency detection. However, this success has not been extended to multispectral remote sensing images, and existing multispectral salient object detection methods are still mainly based on handcrafted features, essentially due to the difficulties in image acquisition and labeling. In this paper, we propose a novel deep residual network based on a top-down model, which is trained in an end-to-end manner to tackle the above issues in multispectral salient object detection. Our model effectively exploits the saliency cues at different levels of the deep residual network. To overcome the limited availability of remote sensing images in training of our deep residual network, we also introduce a new spectral image reconstruction model that can generate multispectral images from RGB images. Our extensive experimental results using both multispectral and RGB salient object detection datasets demonstrate a significant performance improvement of more than 10% improvement compared with the state-of-the-art methods.

Towards complex scenes: A deep learning-based camouflaged people detection method for snapshot multispectral images

Camouflaged people are extremely expert in actively concealing themselves by effectively utilizing cover and the surrounding environment. Despite advancements in optical detection capabilities through imaging systems, including spectral, polarization, and infrared technologies, there is still a lack of effective real-time method for accurately detecting small-size and high-efficient camouflaged people in complex real-world scenes. Here, this study proposes a snapshot multispectral image-based camouflaged detection model, multispectral YOLO(MS-YOLO), which utilizes the SPD-Conv and Sim AM modules to effectively represent targets and suppress background interference by exploiting the spatial-spectral target information. Besides, the study constructs the first real-shot multispectral camouflaged people dataset(MSCPD), which encompasses diverse scenes, target scales, and attitudes. To minimize information redundancy, MS-YOLO selects an optimal subset of 12 bands with strong feature representation and minimal inter-band correlation as input. Through experiments on the MSCPD, MS-YOLO achieves a mean Average Precision of 94.31% and real-time detection at 65 frames per second, which confirms the effectiveness and efficiency of our method in detecting camouflaged people in various typical desert and forest scenes. Our approach offers valuable support to improve the perception capabilities of unmanned aerial vehicles in detecting enemy forces and rescuing personnel in battlefield.

Shadow Detection Method Based on HMRF with Soft Edges for High-Resolution Remote-Sensing Images

Shadow detection is a crucial task in high-resolution remote-sensing image processing. Various shadow detection methods have been explored during the last decades. These methods did improve the detection accuracy but are still not robust enough to get satisfactory results for failing to extract enough information from the original images. To take full advantage of various features of shadows, a new method combining edges information with the spectral and spatial information is proposed in this paper. As known, edge is one of the most important characteristics in the high-resolution remote-sensing images. Unfortunately, in shadow detection, it is a high-risk strategy to determine whether a pixel is the edge or not strictly because intensity values on shadow boundaries are always between those in shadow and non-shadow areas. Therefore, a soft edge description model is developed to describe the degree of each pixel belonging to the edges or not. Sequentially, the soft edge description is incorporating to a fuzzy clustering procedure based on HMRF (Hidden Markov Random Fields), in which more appropriate spatial contextual information can be used. More concretely, it consists of two components: the soft edge description model and an iterative shadow detection algorithm. Experiments on several remote sensing images have shown that the proposed method can obtain more accurate shadow detection results.

A Summary of Change Detection Technology of Remotely-Sensed Image

This paper will describe three aspects of change detection technology of remotely-sensed images. At first, the process of change detection is presented. Then, the author makes a summary of several common change detection methods and a brief review of the advantages and disadvantages of them. At the end of this paper, the applications and difficulty of current change detection techniques are discussed.

Improved YOLOX Remote Sensing Image Object Detection Algorithm

Remote sensing image object detection is one of the core tasks of remote sensing image processing.In recent years,with the development of deep learning,great progress has been made in object detection in remote sensing.However,the problems of dense small targets,complex backgrounds and poor target positioning accuracy in remote sensing images make the detection of remote sensing targets still difficult.In order to solve these problems,this research proposes a remote sensing image object detection algorithm based on improved YOLOX-S.Firstly,the Efficient Channel Attention(ECA)module is introduced to improve the network's ability to extract features in the image and suppress useless information such as background;Secondly,the loss function is optimized to improve the regression accuracy of the target bounding box.We evaluate the effectiveness of our algorithm on the NWPU VHR-10 remote sensing image dataset,the experimental results show that the detection accuracy of the algorithm can reach 95.5%,without increasing the amount of parameters.It is significantly improved compared with that of the original YOLOX-S network,and the detection performance is much better than that of some other mainstream remote sensing image detection methods.Besides,our method also shows good generalization detection performance in experiments on aircraft images in the RSOD dataset.

Smart Photogrammetric and Remote Sensing Image Processing for Very High Resolution Optical Images——Examples from the CRC-AGIP Lab at UNB

This paper introduces some of the image processing techniques developed in the Canada Research Chair in Advanced Geomatics Image Processing Laboratory (CRC-AGIP Lab) and in the Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering (GGE) at the University of New Brunswick (UNB), Canada. The techniques were developed by innovatively/“smartly” utilizing the characteristics of the available very high resolution optical remote sensing images to solve important problems or create new applications in photogrammetry and remote sensing. The techniques to be introduced are: automated image fusion (UNB-PanSharp), satellite image online mapping, street view technology, moving vehicle detection using single set satellite imagery, supervised image segmentation, image matching in smooth areas, and change detection using images from different viewing angles. Because of their broad application potential, some of the techniques have made a global impact, and some have demonstrated the potential for a global impact.

Integration of remotely sensed indices for land cover changes caused by the 2009 Victorian bushfires using Landsat TM imagery

In order to minimise the bushfires negative impacts on society, an efficient andreliable bushfire detection system was proposed to assess the devastated effects of the2009 Victorian bushfires.It is possible to utilise the repetitive capability of satellite remotesensing imagery to identify the location of change to the Earth's surface and integrate thedifferent remotely sensed indices.The results confirm that the procedure can offer essentialspatial information for bushfire assessment.

Oriented Bounding Box Object Detection Model Based on Improved YOLOv8

In the study of oriented bounding boxes(OBB)object detection in high-resolution remote sensing images,the problem of missed and wrong detection of small targets occurs because the targets are too small and have different orientations.Existing OBB object detection for remote sensing images,although making good progress,mainly focuses on directional modeling,while less consideration is given to the size of the object as well as the problem of missed detection.In this study,a method based on improved YOLOv8 was proposed for detecting oriented objects in remote sensing images,which can improve the detection precision of oriented objects in remote sensing images.Firstly,the ResCBAMG module was innovatively designed,which could better extract channel and spatial correlation information.Secondly,the innovative top-down feature fusion layer network structure was proposed in conjunction with the Efficient Channel Attention(ECA)attention module,which helped to capture inter-local cross-channel interaction information appropriately.Finally,we introduced an innovative ResCBAMG module between the different C2f modules and detection heads of the bottom-up feature fusion layer.This innovative structure helped the model to better focus on the target area.The precision and robustness of oriented target detection were also improved.Experimental results on the DOTA-v1.5 dataset showed that the detection Precision,mAP@0.5,and mAP@0.5:0.95 metrics of the improved model are better compared to the original model.This improvement is effective in detecting small targets and complex scenes.

TO–YOLOX: a pure CNN tiny object detection model for remotesensing images

Remote sensing and deep learning are being widely combined in tasks such as urban planning and disaster prevention.However,due to interference occasioned by density,overlap,and coverage,the tiny object detection in remote sensing images has always been a difficult problem.Therefore,we propose a novel TO–YOLOX(Tiny Object–You Only Look Once)model.TO–YOLOX possesses a MiSo(Multiple-in-Singleout)feature fusion structure,which exhibits a spatial-shift structure,and the model balances positive and negative samples and enhances the information interaction pertaining to the local patch of remote sensing images.TO–YOLOX utilizes an adaptive IOU-T(Intersection Over Uni-Tiny)loss to enhance the localization accuracy of tiny objects,and it applies attention mechanism Group-CBAM(group-convolutional block attention module)to enhance the perception of tiny objects in remote sensing images.To verify the effectiveness and efficiency of TO–YOLOX,we utilized three aerial-photography tiny object detection datasets,namely VisDrone2021,Tiny Person,and DOTA–HBB,and the following mean average precision(mAP)values were recorded,respectively:45.31%(+10.03%),28.9%(+9.36%),and 63.02%(+9.62%).With respect to recognizing tiny objects,TO–YOLOX exhibits a stronger ability compared with Faster R-CNN,RetinaNet,YOLOv5,YOLOv6,YOLOv7,and YOLOX,and the proposed model exhibits fast computation.

RepDDNet:a fast and accurate deforestation detection model with high-resolution remote sensing image

Forest is the largest carbon reservoir and carbon absorber on earth.Thus,mapping forest cover change accurately is of great significance to achieving the global carbon neutrality goal.Accurate forest change information could be acquired by deep learning methods using high-resolution remote sensing images.However,deforestation detection based on deep learning on a large-scale region with high-resolution images required huge computational resources.Therefore,there was an urgent need for a fast and accurate deforestation detection model.In this study,we proposed an interesting but effective re-parameterization deforestation detection model,named RepDDNet.Unlike other existing models designed for deforestation detection,the main feature of RepDDNet was its decoupling feature,which means that it allowed the multi-branch structure in the training stages to be converted into a plain structure in the inference stage,thus the computation efficiency can be significantly improved in the inference stage while maintaining the accuracy unchanged.A large-scale experiment was carried out in Ankang city with 2-meter high-resolution remote sensing images(the total area of it was over 20,000 square kilometers),and the result indicated that the model computation efficiency could be improved by nearly 30%compared with the model without re-parameterization.Additionally,compared with other lightweight models,RepDDNet also displayed a trade-off between accuracy and computation efficiency.

Watershed-based Image Segmentation with Region Merging and Edge Detection

The clustering technique is used to examine each pixel in the image which assigned to one of the clusters depending on the minimum distance to obtain primary classified image into different intensity regions. A watershed transformation technique is then employes. This includes: gradient of the classified image, dividing the image into markers, checking the Marker Image to see if it has zero points (watershed lines). The watershed lines are then deleted in the Marker Image created by watershed algorithm. A Region Adjacency Graph (RAG) and Region Adjacency Boundary (RAB) are created between two regions from Marker Image. Finally region merging is done according to region average intensity and two edge strengths (T1, T2). The approach of the authors is tested on remote sensing and brain MR medical images. The final segmentation result is one closed boundary per actual region in the image.

SRS-Net: Training object detectors from scratch for remote sensing images without pretraining

Most of the current object detection algorithms use pretrained models that are trained on ImageNet and then fine-tuned in the network,which can achieve good performance in terms of general object detectors.However,in the field of remote sensing image object detection,as pretrained models are significantly different from remote sensing data,it is meaningful to explore a train-fromscratch technique for remote sensing images.This paper proposes an object detection framework trained from scratch,SRS-Net,and describes the design of a densely connected backbone network to provide integrated hidden layer supervision for the convolution module.Then,two necessary improvement principles are proposed:studying the role of normalization in the network structure,and improving data augmentation methods for remote sensing images.To evaluate the proposed framework,we performed many ablation experiments on the DIOR,DOTA,and AS datasets.The results show that whether using the improved backbone network,the normalization method or training data enhancement strategy,the performance of the object detection network trained from scratch increased.These principles compensate for the lack of pretrained models.Furthermore,we found that SRS-Net could achieve similar to or slightly better performance than baseline methods,and surpassed most advanced general detectors.

Spatial-Resolution Independent Object Detection Framework for Aerial Imagery

Earth surveillance through aerial images allows more accurate identification and characterization of objects present on the surface from space and airborne platforms.The progression of deep learning and computer vision methods and the availability of heterogeneous multispectral remote sensing data make the field more fertile for research.With the evolution of optical sensors,aerial images are becoming more precise and larger,which leads to a new kind of problem for object detection algorithms.This paper proposes the“Sliding Region-based Convolutional Neural Network(SRCNN),”which is an extension of the Faster Region-based Convolutional Neural Network(RCNN)object detection framework to make it independent of the image’s spatial resolution and size.The sliding box strategy is used in the proposed model to segment the image while detecting.The proposed framework outperforms the state-of-the-art Faster RCNN model while processing images with significantly different spatial resolution values.The SRCNN is also capable of detecting objects in images of any size.

Spatial Uncertainty Handling in Lake Extent Trend Analysis Using Remote Sensing and GIS Tools: The Case of Lake Naivasha

The following article has been retracted due to the investigation of complaints received against it. The Editorial Board found that substantial portions of the text came from other published papers. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter, and the Journal of Geographic Information System treats all unethical behavior such as plagiarism seriously. This paper published in Vol.4 No.3 273-278, 2012, has been removed from this site.

Ship detection and classification from optical remote sensing images: A survey

Considering the important applications in the military and the civilian domain, ship detection and classification based on optical remote sensing images raise considerable attention in the sea surface remote sensing filed. This article collects the methods of ship detection and classification for practically testing in optical remote sensing images, and provides their corresponding feature extraction strategies and statistical data. Basic feature extraction strategies and algorithms are analyzed associated with their performance and application in ship detection and classification.Furthermore, publicly available datasets that can be applied as the benchmarks to verify the effectiveness and the objectiveness of ship detection and classification methods are summarized in this paper. Based on the analysis, the remaining problems and future development trends are provided for ship detection and classification methods based on optical remote sensing images.