DDRNet: Dual-Domain Refinement Network for Remote Sensing Image Semantic Segmentation

Semantic segmentation is crucial for interpreting remote sensing images. The segmentation performance has been significantly improved recently with the development of deep learning. However, complex background samples and small objects greatly increase the challenge of the semantic segmentation task...

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Main Authors: Zhenhao Yang, Fukun Bi, Xinghai Hou, Dehao Zhou, Yanping Wang
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Published: IEEE 2024-01-01
Series:IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10741324/
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Fukun Bi
Xinghai Hou
Dehao Zhou
Yanping Wang
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Xinghai Hou
Dehao Zhou
Yanping Wang
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description Semantic segmentation is crucial for interpreting remote sensing images. The segmentation performance has been significantly improved recently with the development of deep learning. However, complex background samples and small objects greatly increase the challenge of the semantic segmentation task for remote sensing images. To address these challenges, we propose a dual-domain refinement network (DDRNet) for accurate segmentation. Specifically, we first propose a spatial and frequency feature reconstruction module, which separately utilizes the characteristics of the frequency and spatial domains to refine the global salient features and the fine-grained spatial features of objects. This process enhances the foreground saliency and adaptively suppresses background noise. Subsequently, we propose a feature alignment module that selectively couples the features refined from both domains via cross-attention, achieving semantic alignment between frequency and spatial domains. In addition, a meticulously designed detail-aware attention module is introduced to compensate for the loss of small objects during feature propagation. This module leverages cross-correlation matrices between high-level features and the original image to quantify the similarities among objects belonging to the same category, thereby transmitting rich semantic information from high-level features to small objects. The results on multiple datasets validate that our method outperforms the existing methods and achieves a good compromise between computational overhead and accuracy.
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spelling doaj-art-c4fb2e2c8e384c348a4b1eb953bcddfe2025-08-20T02:22:40ZengIEEEIEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing1939-14042151-15352024-01-0117201772018910.1109/JSTARS.2024.349058410741324DDRNet: Dual-Domain Refinement Network for Remote Sensing Image Semantic SegmentationZhenhao Yang0https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0641-4405Fukun Bi1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3501-9142Xinghai Hou2Dehao Zhou3Yanping Wang4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1287-670XSchool of Information, North China University of Technology, Beijing, ChinaSchool of Information, North China University of Technology, Beijing, ChinaSchool of Electrical and Control Engineering, North China University of Technology, Beijing, ChinaSchool of Information, North China University of Technology, Beijing, ChinaSchool of Information, North China University of Technology, Beijing, ChinaSemantic segmentation is crucial for interpreting remote sensing images. The segmentation performance has been significantly improved recently with the development of deep learning. However, complex background samples and small objects greatly increase the challenge of the semantic segmentation task for remote sensing images. To address these challenges, we propose a dual-domain refinement network (DDRNet) for accurate segmentation. Specifically, we first propose a spatial and frequency feature reconstruction module, which separately utilizes the characteristics of the frequency and spatial domains to refine the global salient features and the fine-grained spatial features of objects. This process enhances the foreground saliency and adaptively suppresses background noise. Subsequently, we propose a feature alignment module that selectively couples the features refined from both domains via cross-attention, achieving semantic alignment between frequency and spatial domains. In addition, a meticulously designed detail-aware attention module is introduced to compensate for the loss of small objects during feature propagation. This module leverages cross-correlation matrices between high-level features and the original image to quantify the similarities among objects belonging to the same category, thereby transmitting rich semantic information from high-level features to small objects. The results on multiple datasets validate that our method outperforms the existing methods and achieves a good compromise between computational overhead and accuracy.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10741324/Foreground saliency enhancementfrequency domainremote sensing segmentationsmall objects
spellingShingle Zhenhao Yang
Fukun Bi
Xinghai Hou
Dehao Zhou
Yanping Wang
DDRNet: Dual-Domain Refinement Network for Remote Sensing Image Semantic Segmentation
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
Foreground saliency enhancement
frequency domain
remote sensing segmentation
small objects
title DDRNet: Dual-Domain Refinement Network for Remote Sensing Image Semantic Segmentation
title_full DDRNet: Dual-Domain Refinement Network for Remote Sensing Image Semantic Segmentation
title_fullStr DDRNet: Dual-Domain Refinement Network for Remote Sensing Image Semantic Segmentation
title_full_unstemmed DDRNet: Dual-Domain Refinement Network for Remote Sensing Image Semantic Segmentation
title_short DDRNet: Dual-Domain Refinement Network for Remote Sensing Image Semantic Segmentation
title_sort ddrnet dual domain refinement network for remote sensing image semantic segmentation
topic Foreground saliency enhancement
frequency domain
remote sensing segmentation
small objects
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10741324/
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