A transformer boosted UNet for smoke segmentation in complex backgrounds in multispectral LandSat imagery

Many studies have been done to detect smokes from satellite imagery. However, these prior methods are not still effective in detecting various smokes in complex backgrounds. Smokes present challenges in detection due to variations in density, color, lighting, and backgrounds such as clouds, haze, an...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2024-06
Main Authors: Liu, Jixue, Li, Jiuyong, Peters, Stefan, Zhao, Liang
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Landsat satellites
Modules
Satellite imagery
Short wave radiation
Smoke
Transformers
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Summary:Many studies have been done to detect smokes from satellite imagery. However, these prior methods are not still effective in detecting various smokes in complex backgrounds. Smokes present challenges in detection due to variations in density, color, lighting, and backgrounds such as clouds, haze, and/or mist, as well as the contextual nature of thin smoke. This paper addresses these challenges by proposing a new segmentation model called VTrUNet which consists of a virtual band construction module to capture spectral patterns and a transformer boosted UNet to capture long range contextual features. The model takes imagery of six bands: red, green, blue, near infrared, and two shortwave infrared bands as input. To show the advantages of the proposed model, the paper presents extensive results for various possible model architectures improving UNet and draws interesting conclusions including that adding more modules to a model does not always lead to a better performance. The paper also compares the proposed model with very recently proposed and related models for smoke segmentation and shows that the proposed model performs the best and makes significant improvements on prediction performances
ISSN:2331-8422