Remote Sensing Image Segmentation for Aircraft Recognition Using U-Net as Deep Learning Architecture

Fadi Shaar, Arif Yilmaz*, Ahmet Ercan Topcu*, Yehia Ibrahim Alzoubi

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Abstract

Recognizing aircraft automatically by using satellite images has different applications in both the civil and military sectors. However, due to the complexity and variety of the foreground and background of the analyzed images, it remains challenging to obtain a suitable representation of aircraft for identification. Many studies and solutions have been presented in the literature, but only a few studies have suggested handling the issue using semantic image segmentation techniques due to the lack of publicly labeled datasets. With the advancement of CNNs, researchers have presented some CNN architectures, such as U-Net, which has the ability to obtain very good performance using a small training dataset. The U-Net architecture has received much attention for segmenting 2D and 3D biomedical images and has been recognized to be highly successful for pixel-wise satellite image classification. In this paper, we propose a binary image segmentation model to recognize aircraft by exploiting and adopting the U-Net architecture for remote sensing satellite images. The proposed model does not require a significant amount of labeled data and alleviates the need for manual aircraft feature extraction. The public dense labeling remote sensing dataset is used to perform the experiments and measure the robustness and performance of the proposed model. The mean IoU and pixel accuracy are adopted as metrics to assess the obtained results. The results in the testing dataset indicate that the proposed model can achieve a 95.08% mean IoU and a pixel accuracy of 98.24%.
Original languageEnglish
Article number2639
Number of pages17
JournalApplied Sciences
Volume14
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2024

Keywords

  • remote
  • image
  • segmentation
  • aircraft
  • deep learning
  • ensemble
  • U-Net

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