• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.143-156
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• 2023

To precisely and reliably analyze the contents of the satellite imagery, recognizing the clouds which are the obstacle to gathering the useful information is essential. In recent times, deep learning yielded satisfactory results in various tasks, so many studies using deep neural networks have been conducted to improve the performance of cloud detection. However, existing methods for cloud detection have the limitation on increasing the performance due to the adopting the network models for semantic image segmentation without modification. To tackle this problem, we introduced the multi-branch neural architecture search to find optimal network structure for cloud detection. Additionally, the proposed method adopts the soft intersection over union (IoU) as loss function to mitigate the disagreement between the loss function and the evaluation metric and uses the various data augmentation methods. The experiments are conducted using the cloud detection dataset acquired by Arirang-3/3A satellite imagery. The experimental results showed that the proposed network which are searched network architecture using cloud dataset is 4% higher than the existing network model which are searched network structure using urban street scenes with regard to the IoU. Also, the experimental results showed that the soft IoU exhibits the best performance on cloud detection among the various loss functions. When comparing the proposed method with the state-of-the-art (SOTA) models in the field of semantic segmentation, the proposed method showed better performance than the SOTA models with regard to the mean IoU and overall accuracy.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2018.11a
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• pp.81-83
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• 2018

Fully Convolutional Network(FCN)은 기존의 방법보다 뛰어난 성능을 보였지만, FCN은 RGB 정보만을 사용하기 때문에 세밀한 예측이 필요한 장면에서는 다소 부족한 성능을 보였다. 이를 해결하기 위해 인코더-디코더 구조를 이용하여 RGB와 깊이의 멀티 모달을 활용하기 위한 FuseNet이 제안되었다. 하지만, FuseNet에서는 RGB와 깊이 브랜치 사이의 융합은 있지만, 인코더와 디코더 사이의 특징 지도를 융합하지 않는다. 본 논문에서는 FCN의 디코더 부분의 업샘플링 과정에서 이전 계층의 결과와 2배 업샘플링한 결과를 융합하는 스킵 레이어를 적용하여 FuseNet의 모달리티를 잘 활용하여 성능을 개선했다. 본 실험에서는 NYUDv2와 SUNRGBD 데이터 셋을 사용했으며, 전체 정확도는 각각 77%, 65%이고, 평균 IoU는 47.4%, 26.9%, 평균 정확도는 67.7%, 41%의 성능을 보였다.