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18 may 2022 13:38:57

 
Remote Sensing, Vol. 14, Pages 2422: GapLoss: A Loss Function for Semantic Segmentation of Roads in Remote Sensing Images (Remote Sensing)
 


At present, road continuity is a major challenge, and it is difficult to extract the centerline vector of roads, especially when the road view is obstructed by trees or other structures. Most of the existing research has focused on optimizing the available deep-learning networks. However, the segmentation accuracy is also affected by the loss function. Currently, little research has been published on road segmentation loss functions. To resolve this problem, an attention loss function named GapLoss that can be combined with any segmentation network was proposed. Firstly, a deep-learning network was used to obtain a binary prediction mask. Secondly, a vector skeleton was extracted from the prediction mask. Thirdly, for each pixel, eight neighboring pixels with the same value of the pixel were calculated. If the value was 1, then the pixel was identified as the endpoint. Fourth, according to the number of endpoints within a buffered range, each pixel in the prediction image was given a corresponding weight. Finally, the weighted average value of the cross-entropy of all the pixels in the batch was used as the final loss function value. We employed four well-known semantic segmentation networks to conduct comparative experiments on three large datasets. The results showed that, compared to other loss functions, the evaluation metrics after using GapLoss were nearly all improved. From the predicted image, the road prediction by GapLoss was more continuous, especially at intersections and when the road was obscured from view, and the road segmentation accuracy was improved.


 
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