Abstract
Remote-sensing instance segmentation often suffers from ambiguous object boundaries and cluttered backgrounds, while adding heavy mask heads can increase computational cost and reduce deployment flexibility. This paper aims to develop a fast,accurate,and detector-agnostic mask-generation scheme that can be integrated into existing detection pipelines with minimal engineering overhead and without extra training. We propose a two-stage framework that couples a replaceable object detector(e.g.,YOLOv10 or DINO) with a plug-and-play harmonic background modelling (HBM) module. For each detected bounding box,HBM treats the local background as a harmonic function and reconstructs it by least-squares fitting of a truncated harmonic-polynomial basis. Boundary constraints are formed by sampling pixel values along the bounding-box boundary,and the coefficients are solved efficiently via the Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse. The foreground mask is then derived from the channel-wise residual between the original image and the reconstructed background,followed by a contrast-enhancing nonlinearity,Otsu thresholding,and connected-component filtering to suppress spurious fragments. The overall pipeline is fully decoupled from the detector:the detector is not modified or retrained,and the additional computation mainly comes from solving a small least-squares problem per proposal rather than processing full-resolution feature maps with a learned segmentation head. Extensive experiments on NWPU VHR-10 and iSAID-mini datasets demonstrate consistent gains in both box and mask metrics, while maintaining high throughput. With DINO as the proposal generator,DINO+HBM achieves AP-Box and AP-Mask of 69.3% and 66.3% on NWPU VHR-10 and reaches AP-Mask-50 of 92.1%,improving the previous best result by 2.5 percentage points. On iSAID-mini,DINO+HBM obtains AP-Box and AP-Mask of 55.3% and 42.3% with AP-Mask-50 and AP-Mask-75 of 72.1% and 53.3%,showing clear benefits under more complex scenes. Ablation studies further verify the roles of truncation order,constraint-point number,and sampling strategy,and indicate that bounding-box boundary sampling is more stable than random sampling for background regression and mask extraction without sacrificing speed. The proposed training-free harmonic background suppression provides an efficient way to obtain boundary-faithful instance masks in remote-sensing images and offers a practical,modular add-on to detector-based pipelines when rapid inference and easy deployment are required. Highlights: 1.A training-free, plug-and-play harmonic background modelling (HBM) module is introduced to generate instance masks from detector proposals without modifying the detector. 2. Local background reconstruction is cast as a Dirichlet-type harmonic regression problem and solved efficiently via a truncated harmonic-polynomial basis and least-squares fitting under boundary constraints.
| Translated title of the contribution | Two‑Stage Remote Sensing Object Instance Segmentation Based on Harmonic Func‑ tion Theory |
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| Original language | Chinese (Traditional) |
| Pages (from-to) | 147-159 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Shuju Caiji Yu Chuli/Journal of Data Acquisition and Processing |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 2026 |
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