Title
Pyramid pooling module-based semi-siamese network: A benchmark model for assessing building damage from xbd satellite imagery datasets
Date Issued
02 December 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Bai Y.
Hu J.
Su J.
Liu X.
Liu H.
He X.
Meng S.
Koshimura S.
Tohoku University
Publisher(s)
MDPI AG
Abstract
Most mainstream research on assessing building damage using satellite imagery is based on scattered datasets and lacks unified standards and methods to quantify and compare the performance of different models. To mitigate these problems, the present study develops a novel end-to-end benchmark model, termed the pyramid pooling module semi-Siamese network (PPM-SSNet), based on a large-scale xBD satellite imagery dataset. The high precision of the proposed model is achieved by adding residual blocks with dilated convolution and squeeze-and-excitation blocks into the network. Simultaneously, the highly automated process of satellite imagery input and damage classification result output is reached by employing concurrent learned attention mechanisms through a semi-Siamese network for end-to-end input and output purposes. Our proposed method achieves F1 scores of 0.90, 0.41, 0.65, and 0.70 for the undamaged, minor-damaged, major-damaged, and destroyed building classes, respectively. From the perspective of end-to-end methods, the ablation experiments and comparative analysis confirm the effectiveness and originality of the proposed method. Finally, the consistent prediction results of our model for data from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake verify the high performance of our model in terms of the domain shift problem, which implies that it is effective for evaluating future disasters.
Start page
1
End page
20
Volume
12
Issue
24
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de la construcción Ciencias ambientales
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85098292088
Source
Remote Sensing
ISSN of the container
20724292
Sponsor(s)
Acknowledgments: This work was supported by the Public Computing Cloud, Renmin University of China. We also thank the SmartData Club, an Entrepreneurship Incubation Team lead by Jinhua Su of Renmin University of China; Wenqi Wu, students from Renmin University of China; and the Core Research Cluster of Disaster Science at Tohoku University (a Designated National University) for their support. We thank the two reviewers for their helpful and constructive comments on our work. The author gratefully acknowledges the support of K.C. Wong Education Foundation, Hong Kong. Funding: This research was partly funded by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Research Funds of Renmin University of China (20XNF022), fund for building world-class universities (disciplines) of Renmin University of China, Major projects of the National Social Science Fund (16ZDA052), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Kakenhi Program (17H06108), and Core Research Cluster of Disaster Science and Tough Cyberphysical AI Research Center at Tohoku University.
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