Building rooftop extraction from aerial imagery using low complexity UNet variant models

Abstract

ABSTRACT Retrieved rooftops from satellite images have enormous applications. The diversity and complexity of the building structures is challenging. This work proposes to extract building rooftops using two low-complexity DL models: UNet-AstPPD and UNetVasyPPD. The UNet-AstPPD model enhances feature selection by incorporating Atrous Spatial Pyramidal Pooling into the UNet’s decoder. The UNetVasyPPD integrates a VGG-based backbone in the encoder and Asymmetrical Pyramidal-Pooling into the decoder section of the UNet architecture, exhibiting lesser computational complexity. The outcomes demonstrate that Accuracy and Dice Loss of UNet-AstPPD are better. The proposed models training times are just 25.44 minutes and 29.23 minutes respectively.