A novel transformer based semantic segmentation scheme for fine-resolution remote sensing images
Wang, Libo; Li, Rui; Duan, Chenxi; Zhang, Ce 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5100-3584; Meng, Xiaoliang; Fang, Shenghui.
2022
A novel transformer based semantic segmentation scheme for fine-resolution remote sensing images.
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 19, 6506105.
5, pp.
10.1109/LGRS.2022.3143368
Abstract/Summary
The fully convolutional network (FCN) with an encoder-decoder architecture has been the standard paradigm for semantic segmentation. The encoder-decoder architecture utilizes an encoder to capture multilevel feature maps, which are incorporated into the final prediction by a decoder. As the context is crucial for precise segmentation, tremendous effort has been made to extract such information in an intelligent fashion, including employing dilated/atrous convolutions or inserting attention modules. However, these endeavors are all based on the FCN architecture with ResNet or other backbones, which cannot fully exploit the context from the theoretical concept. By contrast, we introduce the Swin Transformer as the backbone to extract the context information and design a novel decoder of densely connected feature aggregation module (DCFAM) to restore the resolution and produce the segmentation map. The experimental results on two remotely sensed semantic segmentation datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.
| Item Type: | Publication - Article |
|---|---|
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | 10.1109/LGRS.2022.3143368 |
| UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas: | Soils and Land Use (Science Area 2017-) |
| ISSN: | 1545-598X |
| Additional Keywords: | transformers, semantics, image segmentation, feature extraction, remote sensing, decoding, standards, fine-resolution remote sensing images, semantic segmentation |
| NORA Subject Terms: | Earth Sciences Electronics, Engineering and Technology Data and Information |
| Date made live: | 30 Mar 2022 11:47 +0 (UTC) |
| URI: | https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/532365 |
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