A few-shot oil spill segmentation network guided by multi-scale feature similarity modeling

Segmentation of oil spills with few-shot samples using UAV optical and SAR images is crucial for enhancing the efficiency of oil spill monitoring. Current oil spill semantic segmentation predominantly relies on SAR images, rendering it relatively data-dependent. We propose a flexible and scalable fe...

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Main Authors: Lingfei Shi, Xianhu Wei, Kun Yang, Gong Chen
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Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2024-12-01
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2024.1481028/full
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description Segmentation of oil spills with few-shot samples using UAV optical and SAR images is crucial for enhancing the efficiency of oil spill monitoring. Current oil spill semantic segmentation predominantly relies on SAR images, rendering it relatively data-dependent. We propose a flexible and scalable few-shot oil spill segmentation network that transitions from UAV optical images to SAR images based on the image similarity of oil spill regions in both types of images. Specifically, we introduce an Adaptive Feature Enhancement Module (AFEM) between the support set branch and the query set branch. This module leverages the precise oil spill information from the UAV optical image support set to derive initial oil spill templates and subsequently refines and updates the query oil spill templates through training to guide the segmentation of SAR oil spills with limited samples. Additionally, to fully exploit information from both low and high-level features, we design a Feature Fusion Module (FFM) to merge these features. Finally, the experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our network in enhancing the performance of UAV optical-to-SAR oil spill segmentation with few samples. Notably, the SAR oil spill detection accuracy reaches 75.88% in 5-shot experiments, representing an average improvement of 5.3% over the optimal baseline model accuracy.
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spelling doaj-art-bd2989df1c02454fbc0322f2e00336f32024-12-11T04:32:45ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Marine Science2296-77452024-12-011110.3389/fmars.2024.14810281481028A few-shot oil spill segmentation network guided by multi-scale feature similarity modelingLingfei Shi0Lingfei Shi1Xianhu Wei2Xianhu Wei3Kun Yang4Kun Yang5Gong Chen6Gong Chen7Faculty of Geography, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, ChinaThe Engineering Research Center of GIS Technology in Western China of Ministry of Education of China, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, ChinaAerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, ChinaSino-Africa Joint Research Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, ChinaFaculty of Geography, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, ChinaThe Engineering Research Center of GIS Technology in Western China of Ministry of Education of China, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, ChinaFaculty of Geography, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, ChinaThe Engineering Research Center of GIS Technology in Western China of Ministry of Education of China, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, ChinaSegmentation of oil spills with few-shot samples using UAV optical and SAR images is crucial for enhancing the efficiency of oil spill monitoring. Current oil spill semantic segmentation predominantly relies on SAR images, rendering it relatively data-dependent. We propose a flexible and scalable few-shot oil spill segmentation network that transitions from UAV optical images to SAR images based on the image similarity of oil spill regions in both types of images. Specifically, we introduce an Adaptive Feature Enhancement Module (AFEM) between the support set branch and the query set branch. This module leverages the precise oil spill information from the UAV optical image support set to derive initial oil spill templates and subsequently refines and updates the query oil spill templates through training to guide the segmentation of SAR oil spills with limited samples. Additionally, to fully exploit information from both low and high-level features, we design a Feature Fusion Module (FFM) to merge these features. Finally, the experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our network in enhancing the performance of UAV optical-to-SAR oil spill segmentation with few samples. Notably, the SAR oil spill detection accuracy reaches 75.88% in 5-shot experiments, representing an average improvement of 5.3% over the optimal baseline model accuracy.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2024.1481028/fulloil spillUAVdeep learningfew-shotsegmentation
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A few-shot oil spill segmentation network guided by multi-scale feature similarity modeling
Frontiers in Marine Science
oil spill
UAV
deep learning
few-shot
segmentation
title A few-shot oil spill segmentation network guided by multi-scale feature similarity modeling
title_full A few-shot oil spill segmentation network guided by multi-scale feature similarity modeling
title_fullStr A few-shot oil spill segmentation network guided by multi-scale feature similarity modeling
title_full_unstemmed A few-shot oil spill segmentation network guided by multi-scale feature similarity modeling
title_short A few-shot oil spill segmentation network guided by multi-scale feature similarity modeling
title_sort few shot oil spill segmentation network guided by multi scale feature similarity modeling
topic oil spill
UAV
deep learning
few-shot
segmentation
url https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2024.1481028/full
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