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Road extraction from aerial images has been a hot research topic in the field of remote sensing image analysis. In this letter, a semantic segmentation neural network which combines the strengths of residual learning and U-Net is proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Zhengxin Zhang , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong 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

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

Automated road network extraction from remote sensing imagery remains a significant challenge despite its importance in a broad array of applications. To this end, we explore road network extraction at scale with inference of semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Adam Van Etten

Accurately predicting road networks from satellite images requires a global understanding of the network topology. We propose to capture such high-level information by introducing a graph-based framework that simulates the addition of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Sotiris Anagnostidis , Aurelien Lucchi , Thomas Hofmann

Routing optimization is a relevant problem in many contexts. Solving directly this type of optimization problem is often computationally unfeasible. Recent studies suggest that one can instead turn this problem into one of solving a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-12-11 Diego Baptista , Daniela Leite , Enrico Facca , Mario Putti , Caterina De Bacco

How to automatically generate a realistic large-scale 3D road network is a key point for immersive and credible traffic simulations. Existing methods cannot automatically generate various kinds of intersections in 3D space based on GIS…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Hua Wang , Yue Wu , Xu Han , Mingliang Xu , Weizhe Chen , Guoliang Chen

Most autonomous cars rely on the availability of high-definition (HD) maps. Current research aims to address this constraint by directly predicting HD map elements from onboard sensors and reasoning about the relationships between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Khanh Son Pham , Christian Witte , Jens Behley , Johannes Betz , Cyrill Stachniss

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

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

Navigation services utilized by autonomous vehicles or ordinary users require the availability of detailed information about road-related objects and their geolocations, especially at road intersections. However, these road intersections…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Chaoquan Zhang , Hongchao Fan , Wanzhi Li , Bo Mao , Xuan Ding

This paper presents the preliminary findings of a semi-supervised segmentation method for extracting roads from sattelite images. Artificial Neural Networks and image segmentation methods are among the most successful methods for extracting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Ahmet Alp Kindiroglu , Metehan Yalçın , Furkan Burak Bağcı , Mahiye Uluyağmur Öztürk

Road extraction in remote sensing images is of great importance for a wide range of applications. Because of the complex background, and high density, most of the existing methods fail to accurately extract a road network that appears…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Huiyu Zhou , Ruili Wang , Jie Yang

The image classification problem has been deeply investigated by the research community, with computer vision algorithms and with the help of Neural Networks. The aim of this paper is to build an image classifier for satellite images of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Jonas Bokstaller , Yihang She , Zhehan Fu , Tommaso Macrì

Automatically extracting roads from satellite imagery is a fundamental yet challenging computer vision task in the field of remote sensing. Pixel-wise semantic segmentation-based approaches and graph-based approaches are two prevailing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Shenwei Xie , Wanfeng Zheng , Zhenglin Xian , Junli Yang , Chuang Zhang , Ming Wu

Urban scholars have studied street networks in various ways, but there are data availability and consistency limitations to the current urban planning/street network analysis literature. To address these challenges, this article presents…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Geoff Boeing

This paper tackles the task of estimating the topology of filamentary networks such as retinal vessels and road networks. Building on top of a global model that performs a dense semantical classification of the pixels of the image, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Carles Ventura , Jordi Pont-Tuset , Sergi Caelles , Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis , Luc Van Gool

We present a weakly-supervised approach to segmenting proposed drivable paths in images with the goal of autonomous driving in complex urban environments. Using recorded routes from a data collection vehicle, our proposed method generates…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Dan Barnes , Will Maddern , Ingmar Posner

The accurate and automatic extraction of roads from satellite imagery is critical for applications in navigation and urban planning, significantly reducing the need for manual annotation. Many existing methods decompose this task into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zhengyang Wei , Renzhi Jing , Yiyi He , Jenny Suckale

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