A Novel Semantic Segmentation Approach Using Improved SegNet and DSC in Remote Sensing Images

Abstract

An improved SegNet semantic segmentation model is proposed to address the issue of traditional classification algorithms and shallow learning algorithms not being suitable for extracting information from high-resolution remote sensing images. During the research process, space remote sensing images obtained from the GF-1 satellite were used as the data source. In order to improve the operational efficiency of the encoding network, the pooling layer in the encoding network is removed and the ordinary convolutional layer is replaced with a depth-wise separable convolution. By decoding the last layer of the network to obtain the reshaped output results, and then calculating the probability of each classification using a Softmax classifier, the classification of pixels can be achieved. The output result of the classifier is the final result of the remote sensing image semantic segmentation model. The results showed that the proposed algorithm had the highest Kappa coefficient of 0.9531, indicating good classification performance.