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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

Historical maps are invaluable for analyzing long-term changes in transportation and spatial development, offering a rich source of data for evolutionary studies. However, digitizing and classifying road networks from these maps is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Dominik J. Mühlematter , Sebastian Schweizer , Chenjing Jiao , Xue Xia , Magnus Heitzler , Lorenz Hurni

Images of natural systems may represent patterns of network-like structure, which could reveal important information about the topological properties of the underlying subject. However, the image itself does not automatically provide a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Diego Baptista , Caterina De Bacco

With the development of intelligent vehicle systems, a high-precision road map is increasingly needed in many aspects. The automatic lane lines extraction and modeling are the most essential steps for the generation of a precise lane-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Zehai Yu , Hui Zhu , Linglong Lin , Huawei Liang , Biao Yu , Weixin Huang

The automated extraction of complete and precise road network graphs from remote sensing imagery remains a critical challenge in geospatial computer vision. Segmentation-based approaches, while effective in pixel-level recognition, struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Dengxian Gong , Shunping Ji

Road extraction from very high resolution satellite (VHR) images is one of the most important topics in the field of remote sensing. In this paper, we propose an efficient Non-Local LinkNet with non-local blocks that can grasp relations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Yooseung Wang , Junghoon Seo , Taegyun Jeon

Road network and building footprint extraction is essential for many applications such as updating maps, traffic regulations, city planning, ride-hailing, disaster response \textit{etc}. Mapping road networks is currently both expensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-15 An Tran , Ali Zonoozi , Jagannadan Varadarajan , Hannes Kruppa

In our research, an adaptive structural learning method of Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) and Deep Belief Network (DBN) has been developed as one of prominent deep learning models. The neuron generation-annihilation in RBM and layer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Shin Kamada , Takumi Ichimura

In this paper, we tackle the problem of online road network extraction from sparse 3D point clouds. Our method is inspired by how an annotator builds a lane graph, by first identifying how many lanes there are and then drawing each one in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Namdar Homayounfar , Wei-Chiu Ma , Shrinidhi Kowshika Lakshmikanth , Raquel Urtasun

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

Automation in mining requires accurate maps of road networks on site. Because roads on open-cut mines are dynamic in nature and continuously changing, manually updating road maps is tedious and error-prone. This paper investigates the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Konstantin M. Seiler

Deep learning has advanced vectorized road extraction in urban settings, yet off-road environments remain underexplored and challenging. A significant domain gap causes advanced models to fail in wild terrains due to two key issues: lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Wenfei Guan , Jilin Mei , Tong Shen , Xumin Wu , Shuo Wang , Chen Min , Yu Hu

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

Massive amounts of satellite data have been gathered over time, holding the potential to unveil a spatiotemporal chronicle of the surface of Earth. These data allow scientists to investigate various important issues, such as land use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Stefan Oehmcke , Christoffer Thrysøe , Andreas Borgstad , Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles , Martin Brandt , Fabian Gieseke

This paper presents a novel approach to computing vector road maps from satellite remotely sensed images, building upon a well-defined Patched Line Segment (PaLiS) representation for road graphs that holds geometric significance. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Jiakun Xu , Bowen Xu , Gui-Song Xia , Liang Dong , Nan Xue

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

The increasing availability of satellite and aerial imagery has sparked substantial interest in automatically updating street maps by processing aerial images. Until now, the community has largely focused on road extraction, where road…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Favyen Bastani , Sam Madden

The information about pavement surface type is rarely available in road network databases of developing countries although it represents a cornerstone of the design of efficient mobility systems. This research develops an automatic…

Applications · Statistics 2026-04-14 Arianna Burzacchi , Matteo Landrò , Simone Vantini

This paper presents an accurate and fast algorithm for road segmentation using convolutional neural network (CNN) and gated recurrent units (GRU). For autonomous vehicles, road segmentation is a fundamental task that can provide the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Yecheng Lyu , Xinming Huang

Quantitative analysis of channel networks plays an important role in river studies. To provide a quantitative representation of channel networks, we propose a new method that extracts channels from remotely sensed images and estimates their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-15 F. Isikdogan , A. C. Bovik , P. Passalacqua