Road Network Detection from Aerial Imagery of Urban Areas Using Deep ResUNet in Combination with the B-snake Algorithm
- Publisher:
- Springer Nature
- Publication Type:
- Journal Article
- Citation:
- Human-Centric Intelligent Systems, 2023, 3, (1), pp. 37-46
- Issue Date:
- 2023-03-01
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Road network detection is critical to enhance disaster response and detecting a safe evacuation route Due to expanding computational capacity road extraction from aerial imagery has been investigated extensively in the literature specifically in the last decade Previous studies have mainly proposed methods based on pixel classification or image segmentation as road non road images such as thresholding edge based segmentation k means clustering histogram based segmentation etc However these methods have limitations of over segmentation sensitivity to noise and distortion in images This study considers the case study of Hawkesbury Nepean valley NSW Australia which is prone to flood and has been selected for road network extraction For road area extraction the application of semantic segmentation along with residual learning and U Net is suggested Public road datasets were used for training and testing purposes The study suggested a framework to train and test datasets with the application of the deep ResUnet architecture Based on maximal similarity the regions were merged and the road network was extracted with the B snake algorithm application The proposed framework baseline region merging B snake improved performance when evaluated on the synthetically modified dataset It was evident that in comparison with the baseline region merging and addition of the B snake algorithm improved significantly achieving a value of 0 92 for precision and 0 897 for recall
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