Building Extraction Based on U-Net with an Attention Block and Multiple Losses

• Main Authors: Mingqiang Guo, Heng Liu, Yongyang Xu, Ying Huang
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2020-04-01
• Series: Remote Sensing
• Subjects: building extraction; attention block; multiple losses; semantic segmentation; remote sensing images
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/9/1400

Semantic segmentation of high-resolution remote sensing images plays an important role in applications for building extraction. However, the current algorithms have some semantic information extraction limitations, and these can lead to poor segmentation results. To extract buildings with high accuracy, we propose a multiloss neural network based on attention. The designed network, based on U-Net, can improve the sensitivity of the model by the attention block and suppress the background influence of irrelevant feature areas. To improve the ability of the model, a multiloss approach is proposed during training the network. The experimental results show that the proposed model offers great improvement over other state-of-the-art methods. For the public Inria Aerial Image Labeling dataset, the F1 score reached 76.96% and showed good performance on the Aerial Imagery for Roof Segmentation dataset.