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CNN based suburban building detection using monocular high resolution Google Earth images

  • Beihang University
  • China Ministry of Civil Affairs

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Abstract

This paper proposes a deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) based method to automatically detect suburban buildings from high resolution Google Earth imagery. Traditional methods based on low-level hand-engineered features or mid-level bag of features have great limitations in complex environment, especially in suburban areas. Inspired by the astounding achievement of CNNs in object recognition and detection, we develop a novel method to detect buildings in cluttered images which consists of three main steps. Firstly, a multi-scale saliency computation is employed to extract built-up areas and a sliding windows approach is applied to generate candidate regions. Then, a CNN is applied to classify the regions. Finally, an improved non maximum suppression is used to remove false buildings. We test our method on a collection of very challenging Google Earth images and achieve 89% precision, which shows robustness and efficiency of our method.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2016 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages661-664
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781509033324
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Nov 2016
Event36th IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2016 - Beijing, China
Duration: 10 Jul 201615 Jul 2016

Publication series

NameInternational Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
Volume2016-November

Conference

Conference36th IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2016
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period10/07/1615/07/16

Keywords

  • CNN
  • building detection
  • multi-scale saliency
  • suburban

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