Remote sensing image segmentation based on the fuzzy deep convolutional neural network

Abstract

ABSTRACT Remote sensing image segmentation has large uncertainty related to the heterogeneity of similar objects and complex spectrum in satellite images, causing the traditional segmentation methods to be greatly limited. Existing semantic segmentation methods represented by deep learning have made breakthrough progress. However, traditional deep learning methods, such as deep convolution neural network, are a completely deterministic model, which cannot describe the uncertainty of remote sensing image well. To solve this problem, a new deep neural network combined with fuzzy logic units is proposed in this paper, called RSFCNN (Remote Sensing image segmentation with Fuzzy Convolutional Neural Network). The network integrates convolution units and fuzzy logic units. Convolution units are used to extract discriminant features with different proportions, thus providing comprehensive information for pixel-level remote sensing image segmentation. Fuzzy logic units are used to deal with various uncertainties and provide more reliable segmentation results, and each unit handles the feature maps at a particular image scale by Gaussian blur function. Experiments were carried out on two data sets, and the results showed that RSFCNN has higher segmentation accuracy and better performance than state-of-the-art algorithms.