Title
Shadow removal in high-resolution satellite images using conditional generative adversarial networks
Date Issued
01 January 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Publisher(s)
Springer Nature
Abstract
In satellite image processing, obscure zones that were affected by shadows are normally discarded from further processing. Nevertheless, for specific applications, such as surveillance, it is desirable to remove shadows despite the fact that reconstructed zones do not necessarily have real reflectance values. In that sense, we propose a shadow removal method in high-resolution satellite images using conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs). The generator network is trained to produce shadow-free RGB images with condition on a satellite image patch altered with artificial shadows and concatenated with its respective binary shadow mask, while the discriminator is adversely trained to discern if a given shadow-free image comes from the generator or if it is an original RGB image without artificial alteration. The method is tested in the proposed dataset achieving an error ratio comparable with the state of the art. Finally, we confirm the feasibility of the proposed network using real shadowed images.
Start page
328
End page
340
Volume
898
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de la computación
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85063485582
Source
Communications in Computer and Information Science
Resource of which it is part
Communications in Computer and Information Science
ISSN of the container
18650929
ISBN of the container
9783030116798
Conference
5th International Conference on Information Management and Big Data, SIMBig 2018 Lima 3 September 2018 through 5 September 2018
Sponsor(s)
Acknowledgement. The authors would like to thank the National Commission for Aerospace Research and Development (CONIDA) and the National Institute of Research and Training in Telecommunications of the National University of Engineering (INICTEL-UNI) for the support provided. The training of all the networks was carried out by the High Performance Computational Center of the Peruvian Amazon Research Institute (IIAP). For more information please visit http://iiap.org.pe/manati.
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