NL-LinkNet: Toward Lighter but More Accurate Road Extraction with Non-Local Operations

22 Aug 2019  ·  Yooseung Wang, Junghoon Seo, Taegyun Jeon ·

Road extraction from very high resolution satellite (VHR) images is one of the most important topics in the field of remote sensing. In this paper, we propose an efficient Non-Local LinkNet with non-local blocks that can grasp relations between global features. This enables each spatial feature point to refer to all other contextual information and results in more accurate road segmentation. In detail, our single model without any post-processing like CRF refinement, performed better than any other published state-of-the-art ensemble model in the official DeepGlobe Challenge. Moreover, our NL-LinkNet beat the D-LinkNet, the winner of the DeepGlobe challenge, with 43 \% less parameters, less giga floating-point operations per seconds (GFLOPs) and shorter training convergence time. We also present empirical analyses on the proper usages of non-local blocks for the baseline model.

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