Attention-Guided Shared Hybrid Network for Enhanced Land Cover Segmentation

Accurate land cover segmentation is crucial for numerous environmental and urban planning applications. However, irregular land types and varying illumination conditions can adversely affect segmentation results. Most existing remote sensing image segmentation models prioritize lightweight design, w...

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Main Authors: Yinbing Jiang, Linfeng Shi, Xinyu Fan
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Published: IEEE 2025-01-01
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description Accurate land cover segmentation is crucial for numerous environmental and urban planning applications. However, irregular land types and varying illumination conditions can adversely affect segmentation results. Most existing remote sensing image segmentation models prioritize lightweight design, which often leads to difficulties in identifying small objects and edge information, as well as insufficient multi-scale capabilities. To address these issues, we propose an innovative Attention-Guided Shared Hybrid Network (AGSHN) aimed at enhancing the precision and robustness of land cover segmentation. Our network integrates attention mechanisms with shared hybrid architectures to effectively capture spatial dependencies and contextual information. During the network fusion stage, our Dual Feature Complementary Modules (DFCM) selectively emphasizes informative features while suppressing irrelevant data. Additionally, during the decoding stage, we introduce a Multi-Scale Dual Representation Alignment Filter(MDAF) module to mitigate semantic ambiguity between shallow and deep features. Finally, a specialized auxiliary segmentation method is employed to reinforce the network’s boundary representation. Extensive experiments conducted on benchmark land cover datasets, including WHDLD, GID-15, and L8SPARCS, demonstrate that AGSHN significantly outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods in segmentation accuracy.
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spelling doaj-art-25c48bd7e77e469fa22d0687fec47d642025-01-21T00:02:08ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362025-01-01138508852210.1109/ACCESS.2024.352445410819395Attention-Guided Shared Hybrid Network for Enhanced Land Cover SegmentationYinbing Jiang0https://orcid.org/0009-0005-0278-590XLinfeng Shi1https://orcid.org/0009-0000-8804-0231Xinyu Fan2https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9101-0872School of Internet of Things, Wuxi Taihu University, Wuxi, ChinaSchool of Automation, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, ChinaSchool of Automation, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, ChinaAccurate land cover segmentation is crucial for numerous environmental and urban planning applications. However, irregular land types and varying illumination conditions can adversely affect segmentation results. Most existing remote sensing image segmentation models prioritize lightweight design, which often leads to difficulties in identifying small objects and edge information, as well as insufficient multi-scale capabilities. To address these issues, we propose an innovative Attention-Guided Shared Hybrid Network (AGSHN) aimed at enhancing the precision and robustness of land cover segmentation. Our network integrates attention mechanisms with shared hybrid architectures to effectively capture spatial dependencies and contextual information. During the network fusion stage, our Dual Feature Complementary Modules (DFCM) selectively emphasizes informative features while suppressing irrelevant data. Additionally, during the decoding stage, we introduce a Multi-Scale Dual Representation Alignment Filter(MDAF) module to mitigate semantic ambiguity between shallow and deep features. Finally, a specialized auxiliary segmentation method is employed to reinforce the network’s boundary representation. Extensive experiments conducted on benchmark land cover datasets, including WHDLD, GID-15, and L8SPARCS, demonstrate that AGSHN significantly outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods in segmentation accuracy.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10819395/Land coversegmentationattention mechanismshared hybrid architecturefeature enhancement
spellingShingle Yinbing Jiang
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Attention-Guided Shared Hybrid Network for Enhanced Land Cover Segmentation
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Land cover
segmentation
attention mechanism
shared hybrid architecture
feature enhancement
title Attention-Guided Shared Hybrid Network for Enhanced Land Cover Segmentation
title_full Attention-Guided Shared Hybrid Network for Enhanced Land Cover Segmentation
title_fullStr Attention-Guided Shared Hybrid Network for Enhanced Land Cover Segmentation
title_full_unstemmed Attention-Guided Shared Hybrid Network for Enhanced Land Cover Segmentation
title_short Attention-Guided Shared Hybrid Network for Enhanced Land Cover Segmentation
title_sort attention guided shared hybrid network for enhanced land cover segmentation
topic Land cover
segmentation
attention mechanism
shared hybrid architecture
feature enhancement
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10819395/
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