Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 60, Issue 24, 2428005(2023)

Dual-Stream Feature Aggregation Network for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Aerial Images Semantic Segmentation

Runzeng Li1, Zaifeng Shi1,3、*, Fanning Kong1, Xiangyang Zhao1, and Tao Luo2
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Microelectronics, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
  • 2College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
  • 3Tianjin Key Laboratory of Imaging and Sensing Microelectronic Technology, Tianjin 300072, China
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    Large object size difference in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aerial photography makes it difficult to take into account the segmentation effect of objects of different sizes in the receptive field. A dual-stream feature aggregation network (DSFA-Net) with two branches to extract low-level and high-level features separately, is proposed for such problems. In the encoder, a low-level information extraction branch with three serial ConvNeXt modules is used to preserve more low-level features by generating more channels of features. In the deep feature branch, the coordinate attention atrous spatial pyramid pooling (CA-ASPP) module reassigns weights to feature maps in the channel dimension. It makes the module focus on segmentation objects of different sizes and deep-level multi-scale features are obtained. During the decoding process, the bilateral guided aggregation module performs resolution aggregation between the low-level and deep-level features. Our method is evaluated on the AeroScapes and Semantic Drone datasets, the mean intersection over union is 83.16% and 72.09% respectively, and the mean pixel accuracy is 90.75% and 80.34% respectively. The proposed method is more capable of segmenting objects with large difference sizes compared to mainstream methods. It is suitable for semantic segmentation tasks for UAV aerial images.

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    Runzeng Li, Zaifeng Shi, Fanning Kong, Xiangyang Zhao, Tao Luo. Dual-Stream Feature Aggregation Network for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Aerial Images Semantic Segmentation[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2023, 60(24): 2428005

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    Paper Information

    Category: Remote Sensing and Sensors

    Received: Mar. 27, 2023

    Accepted: Apr. 23, 2023

    Published Online: Nov. 27, 2023

    The Author Email: Shi Zaifeng (shizaifeng@tju.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP230955

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