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Peng Liang1, Wenzhong Shi2, Yixing Ding3
1School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China.
Abstract:
Accurate and up-to-date road network information is very important for the Geographic Information System (GIS) database, traffic management and planning, automatic vehicle navigation, emergency response and urban pollution sources investigation. In this paper, we use vector field learning to extract roads from high resolution remote sensing imaging. This method is usually used for skeleton extraction in nature image, but seldom used in road extraction. In order to improve the accuracy of road extraction, three vector fields are constructed and combined respectively with the normal road mask learning by a two-task network. The results show that all the vector fields are able to significantly improve the accuracy of road extraction, no matter the field is constructed in the road area or completely outside the road. The highest F1 score is 0.7618, increased by 0.053 compared with using only mask learning.
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