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Road extraction is an essential step in building autonomous navigation systems. Detecting road segments is challenging as they are of varying widths, bifurcated throughout the image, and are often occluded by terrain, cloud, or other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara , Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Vishal M. Patel

Land remote sensing analysis is a crucial research in earth science. In this work, we focus on a challenging task of land analysis, i.e., automatic extraction of traffic roads from remote sensing data, which has widespread applications in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Lingbo Liu , Zewei Yang , Guanbin Li , Kuo Wang , Tianshui Chen , Liang Lin

Road networks are crucial for mapping, autonomous driving, and disaster response. While manual annotation is costly, deep learning offers efficient extraction. Current methods include postprocessing (prone to errors), global parallel (fast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Ligao Deng , Yupeng Deng , Yu Meng , Jingbo Chen , Zhihao Xi , Diyou Liu , Qifeng Chu

Automatic road extraction from satellite imagery using deep learning is a viable alternative to traditional manual mapping. Therefore it has received considerable attention recently. However, most of the existing methods are supervised and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Shiqiao Meng , Zonglin Di , Siwei Yang , Yin Wang

Autonomous driving car is becoming more of a reality, as a key component,high-definition(HD) maps shows its value in both market place and industry. Even though HD maps generation from LiDAR or stereo/perspective imagery has achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Andi Zang , Runsheng Xu , Zichen Li , David Doria

Mapping road networks is currently both expensive and labor-intensive. High-resolution aerial imagery provides a promising avenue to automatically infer a road network. Prior work uses convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to detect which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Favyen Bastani , Songtao He , Sofiane Abbar , Mohammad Alizadeh , Hari Balakrishnan , Sanjay Chawla , Sam Madden , David DeWitt

As maintaining road networks is labor-intensive, many automatic road extraction approaches have been introduced to solve this real-world problem, fueled by the abundance of large-scale high-resolution satellite imagery and advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Soojung Hong , Kwanghee Choi

Creating high definition maps that contain precise information of static elements of the scene is of utmost importance for enabling self driving cars to drive safely. In this paper, we tackle the problem of drivable road boundary extraction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Justin Liang , Namdar Homayounfar , Wei-Chiu Ma , Shenlong Wang , Raquel Urtasun

Deep learning is revolutionizing the mapping industry. Under lightweight human curation, computer has generated almost half of the roads in Thailand on OpenStreetMap (OSM) using high-resolution aerial imagery. Bing maps are displaying 125…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Tao Sun , Zonglin Di , Pengyu Che , Chun Liu , Yin Wang

Road Extraction is a sub-domain of Remote Sensing applications; it is a subject of extensive and ongoing research. The procedure of automatically extracting roads from satellite imagery encounters significant challenges due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Arpan Mahara , Md Rezaul Karim Khan , Naphtali D. Rishe , Wenjia Wang , Seyed Masoud Sadjadi

Paper maps remain widely used for hiking and sightseeing because they contain curated trails and locally relevant annotations that are often missing from digital navigation applications such as Google Maps. We propose a pipeline to extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Bjoern Kremser , Yusuke Matsui

Extracting roads from high-resolution remote sensing images (HRSIs) is vital in a wide variety of applications, such as autonomous driving, path planning, and road navigation. Due to the long and thin shape as well as the shades induced by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Ying Wang , Yuexing Peng , Xinran Liu , Wei Li , George C. Alexandropoulos , Junchuan Yu , Daqing Ge , Wei Xiang

Inferring road graphs from satellite imagery is a challenging computer vision task. Prior solutions fall into two categories: (1) pixel-wise segmentation-based approaches, which predict whether each pixel is on a road, and (2) graph-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Songtao He , Favyen Bastani , Satvat Jagwani , Mohammad Alizadeh , Hari Balakrishnan , Sanjay Chawla , Mohamed M. Elshrif , Samuel Madden , Amin Sadeghi

The challenges of road network segmentation demand an algorithm capable of adapting to the sparse and irregular shapes, as well as the diverse context, which often leads traditional encoding-decoding methods and simple Transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Jie Song , Yue Sun , Ziyun Cai , Liang Xiao , Yawen Huang , Yefeng Zheng

The binary segmentation of roads in very high resolution (VHR) remote sensing images (RSIs) has always been a challenging task due to factors such as occlusions (caused by shadows, trees, buildings, etc.) and the intra-class variances of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Lei Ding , Lorenzo Bruzzone

This study presents an innovative approach for automatic road detection with deep learning, by employing fusion strategies for utilizing both lower-resolution satellite imagery and GPS trajectory data, a concept never explored before. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Necip Enes Gengec , Ergin Tari , Ulas Bagci

A road is the skeleton of a city and is a fundamental and important geographical component. Currently, many countries have built geo-information databases and gathered large amounts of geographic data. However, with the extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Xin Chen , Anzhu Yu , Qun Sun , Wenyue Guo , Qing Xu , Bowei Wen

Identification of road networks and optimal routes directly from remote sensing is of critical importance to a broad array of humanitarian and commercial applications. Yet while identification of road pixels has been attempted before,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Adam Van Etten , Jacob Shermeyer , Daniel Hogan , Nicholas Weir , Ryan Lewis

Transportation infrastructure, such as road or railroad networks, represent a fundamental component of our civilization. For sustainable planning and informed decision making, a thorough understanding of the long-term evolution of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Johannes H. Uhl , Stefan Leyk , Yao-Yi Chiang , Craig A. Knoblock

Automatic building extraction from aerial and satellite imagery is highly challenging due to extremely large variations of building appearances. To attack this problem, we design a convolutional network with a final stage that integrates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Jiangye Yuan