Study of Multiscale Fused Extraction of Cropland Plots in Remote Sensing Images Based on Attention Mechanism.

Journal: Computational intelligence and neuroscience
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Abstract

Cropland extraction from remote sensing images is an essential part of precise digital agriculture services. This paper proposed an SSGNet network of multiscale fused extraction of cropland based on the attention mechanism to address issues with complex cropland feature types in remote sensing images that resulted in blurred boundaries and low accuracy in plot partitioning. The proposed network contains different modules, such as spatial gradient guidance and dilated semantic fusion. It employs the image gradient attention guidance module to fully extract cropland plot features. This causes the feature to be transferred from the encoding layer to the decoding layer, creating layers full of key features within the cropland and making the extracted cropland information more accurate. In addition, this study also solves the problem caused by a large amount of spatial feature information, which losses easily during the downsampling process of continuous convolution in the coding layer. Aiming to solve this issue, we put forward a model for consensus fusion of multiscale spatial features to fuse each-layer feature of the coding layer through dilated convolution with different dilated ratios. This approach was proposed to make the segmentation results more comprehensive and complete. The lab findings showed that the Precision, Recall, MIoU, and F1 score of the multiscale fusion segmentation SSGNet network based on the attention mechanism had achieved 93.46%, 90.91%, 85.54%, and 92.73%, respectively. Its segmentation effect on cropland was better than other semantic segmentation networks and can effectively promote cropland semantic extraction.

Authors

  • Xu Song
    Natural Medicine Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University Chengdu 611130, China.
  • Hongyu Zhou
    Institute for AI in Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China; National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China.
  • Guoying Liu
    Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Malignant Tumor Epigenetics and Gene Regulation, Guangdong-Hong Kong Joint Laboratory for RNA Medicine, Department of Medical Oncology, Breast Tumor Centre, Phase I Clinical Trial Centre, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
  • Brian Sheng-Xian Teo
    School of Graduate Studies, Management and Science University, Shah Alam 40100, Malaysia.