Abstract
The availability of large-scale annotated datasets has enabled Fully-Convolutional Neural Networks to reach outstanding performance on road extraction in aerial images. However, high-quality pixel-level annotation is expensive to produce and even manually labeled data often contains topological errors. Trading off quality for quantity, many datasets rely on already available yet noisy labels, for example from OpenStreetMap. In this paper, we explore the training of custom U-Nets built with ResNet and DenseNet backbones using noise-aware losses that are robust towards label omission and registration noise. We perform an extensive evaluation of standard and noise-aware losses, including a novel Bootstrapped DICE-Coefficient loss, on two challenging road segmentation benchmarks. Our losses yield a consistent improvement in overall extraction quality and exhibit a strong capacity to cope with severe label noise. Our method generalizes well to two other fine-grained topology delineation tasks: surface crack detection for quality inspection and cell membrane extraction in electron microscopy imagery
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | ICPR 2020 |
Publication status | Published - 12 Jan 2021 |
Event | 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition - Milano, Virtuell, Italy Duration: 10 Jan 2021 → 15 Feb 2021 |
Conference
Conference | 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition |
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Abbreviated title | ICPR 2020 |
Country/Territory | Italy |
City | Virtuell |
Period | 10/01/21 → 15/02/21 |
Keywords
- label noise
- road extraction
- semantic segmentation
- satellite imagery
- aerial imagery
Fields of Expertise
- Information, Communication & Computing