Research on road extraction of remote sensing image based on convolutional neural network

• Published in: EURASIP journal on image and video processing 2019-02, Vol.2019 (1), p.1-11, Article 31
• Main Author: Jiang, Yuantao
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Artificial neural networks; Biometrics; Computer simulation; Convolutional neural network; Detection; Emergency management; Engineering; High resolution; Image classification; Image Processing and Computer Vision; Image quality; Image resolution; Information retrieval; Intelligent agents; Neural networks; Pattern Recognition; Remote sensing; Remote sensing image; Road extraction; Roads & highways; Satellite imagery; Signal,Image and Speech Processing; Telephone numbers; Traffic management; Traffic planning; Training algorithm; Urban planning; Visual Information Learning and Analytics on Cross-Media Big Data; Wavelet analysis; Wavelet packet method
• ISSN: 1687-5281; 1687-5176; 1687-5281
• DOI: 10.1186/s13640-019-0426-7

Road is an important kind of basic geographic information. Road information extraction plays an important role in traffic management, urban planning, automatic vehicle navigation, and emergency management. With the development of remote sensing technology, the quality of high-resolution satellite images is improved and more easily obtained, which makes it possible to use remote sensing images to locate roads accurately. Therefore, it is an urgent problem to extract road information from remote sensing images. To solve this problem, a road extraction method based on convolutional neural network is proposed in this paper. Firstly, convolutional neural network is used to classify the high-resolution remote sensing images into two classes, which can distinguish the road from the non-road and extract the road information initially. Secondly, the convolutional neural network is optimized and improved from the training algorithm. Finally, because of the influence of natural scene factors such as house and tree shadow, the non-road noise still exists in the road results extracted by the optimized convolutional neural network method. Therefore, this paper uses wavelet packet method to filter these non-road noises, so as to accurately present the road information in remote sensing images. The simulation results show that the road information of remote sensing image can be preliminarily distinguished by convolutional neural network; the road information can be distinguished effectively by optimizing convolutional neural network; and the wavelet packet method can effectively remove noise interference. Therefore, the proposed road extraction method based on convolutional neural network has good road information extraction effect.