Long-range context information is crucial for the semantic segmentation of High-Resolution (HR) Remote Sensing Images (RSIs). The image cropping operations, commonly used for training neural networks, limit the perception of long-range context information in large RSIs. To break this limitation, we propose a Wider-Context Network (WiCNet ) for the semantic segmentation of HR RSIs. In the WiCNet , apart from a conventional feature extraction network to aggregate the local information, an extra context branch is designed to explicitly model the context information in a larger image area. The information between the two branches is communicated through a Context Transformer, which is a novel design derived from the Vision Transformer to model the long-range context correlations. Ablation studies and comparative experiments conducted on several benchmark datasets prove the effectiveness of the proposed method. Additionally , we present a new Beijing Land-Use (BLU) dataset. This is a large-scale HR satellite dataset provided with high-quality and fine-grained reference labels, which we hope will boost future studies in this field.
Long-range context information is crucial for the semantic segmentation of High-Resolution (HR) Remote Sensing Images (RSIs). The image cropping operations, commonly used for training neural networks, limit the perception of long-range context information in large RSIs. To break this limitation, we propose a Wide-Context Network (WiCoNet ) for the semantic segmentation of HR RSIs. In the WiCoNet , apart from a conventional feature extraction network that aggregates the local information, an extra context branch is designed to explicitly model the spatial information in a larger image area. The information between the two branches is communicated through a Context Transformer, which is a novel design derived from the Vision Transformer to model the long-range context correlations. Ablation studies and comparative experiments conducted on several benchmark datasets prove the effectiveness of the proposed method. In addition , we present a new Beijing Land-Use (BLU) dataset. This is a large-scale HR satellite dataset provided with high-quality and fine-grained reference labels, which can boost future studies in this field.
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