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  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,017 Views
15 Pages

Generative Learning for Postprocessing Semantic Segmentation Predictions: A Lightweight Conditional Generative Adversarial Network Based on Pix2pix to Improve the Extraction of Road Surface Areas

  • Calimanut-Ionut Cira,
  • Miguel-Ángel Manso-Callejo,
  • Ramón Alcarria,
  • Teresa Fernández Pareja,
  • Borja Bordel Sánchez and
  • Francisco Serradilla

16 January 2021

Remote sensing experts have been actively using deep neural networks to solve extraction tasks in high-resolution aerial imagery by means of supervised semantic segmentation operations. However, the extraction operation is imperfect, due to the compl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,187 Views
24 Pages

16 April 2023

Most existing road extraction approaches apply learning models based on semantic segmentation networks and consider reduced study areas, featuring favorable scenarios. In this work, an end-to-end processing strategy to extract the road surface areas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,498 Views
17 Pages

USV-Seg: A Vision-Language Framework for Guided Segmentation of USV with Physical Constraint Optimization

  • Wenqiang Zhan,
  • Qianqian Chen,
  • Rongkun Zhou,
  • Shenghua Chen,
  • Xinlong Zhang,
  • Lei Ma,
  • Yan Wang and
  • Guiyin Liu

31 August 2025

Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) play a critical role in maritime monitoring, environmental protection, and emergency response, necessitating accurate scene understanding in complex aquatic environments. Conventional semantic segmentation methods oft...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,012 Views
25 Pages

A New Efficient Ship Detection Method Based on Remote Sensing Images by Device–Cloud Collaboration

  • Tao Liu,
  • Yun Ye,
  • Zhengling Lei,
  • Yuchi Huo,
  • Xiaocai Zhang,
  • Fang Wang,
  • Mei Sha and
  • Huafeng Wu

Fast and accurate detection of ship objects in remote sensing images must overcome two critical problems: the complex content of remote sensing images and the large number of small objects reduce ship detection efficiency. In addition, most existing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,560 Views
17 Pages

9 November 2022

Pack-ice seals are key indicator species in the Southern Ocean. Their large size (2–4 m) and continent-wide distribution make them ideal candidates for monitoring programs via very-high-resolution satellite imagery. The sheer volume of imagery...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,955 Views
15 Pages

18 December 2022

There is a growing interest in scene text detection for arbitrary shapes. The effectiveness of text detection has also evolved from horizontal text detection to the ability to perform text detection in multiple directions and arbitrary shapes. Howeve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
109 Views
20 Pages

27 February 2026

Ensuring railway safety requires reliable monitoring of trains in critical safety areas, such as station throat zones and railway crossings. Compared with cameras, roadside LiDAR can more reliably capture the geometry of trains under low-light, high-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,579 Views
11 Pages

Semantic segmentation on Landsat-8 data is crucial in the integration of diverse data, allowing researchers to achieve more productivity and lower expenses. This research aimed to improve the versatile backbone for dense prediction without convolutio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,890 Views
33 Pages

4 September 2025

In recent decades, technological developments in archaeological geophysics have led to growing data volumes, so that an important bottleneck is now at the stage of data interpretation. The manual delineation and classification of anomalies are time-c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,859 Views
16 Pages

5 November 2020

Object detection and recognition in aerial and remote sensing images has become a hot topic in the field of computer vision in recent years. As these images are usually taken from a bird’s-eye view, the targets often have different shapes and a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,004 Views
18 Pages

This paper presents an end-to-end deep convolutional neural network (CNN) model for carrier signal detection in the broadband power spectrum, so-called spectrum center net (SCN). By regarding the broadband power spectrum sequence as a one-dimensional...

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  • Open Access
3,908 Views
24 Pages

Learning Color Distributions from Bitemporal Remote Sensing Images to Update Existing Building Footprints

  • Zehui Wang,
  • Yu Meng,
  • Jingbo Chen,
  • Junxian Ma,
  • Anzhi Yue and
  • Jiansheng Chen

18 November 2022

For most cities, municipal governments have constructed basic building footprint datasets that need to be updated regularly for the management and monitoring of urban development and ecology. Cities are capable of changing in a short period of time,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
110 Citations
10,342 Views
21 Pages

18 July 2018

Building extraction from remotely sensed imagery plays an important role in urban planning, disaster management, navigation, updating geographic databases, and several other geospatial applications. Several published contributions dedicated to the ap...