Road extraction using a dual attention dilated-LinkNet based on satellite images and floating vehicle trajectory data

Abstract

Automatic extraction of road from multisource remote sensing data has always been a challenging task. Factors such as shadow occlusion and multisource data alignment errors prevent current deep learning-based road extraction methods from acquiring road features with high complementarity, redundancy, and crossover. Unlike previous works that capture contexts by multiscale feature fusion, we propose a dual attention dilated-LinkNet (DAD-LinkNet) to adaptively integrate local road features with their global dependencies by joint using satellite image and floating vehicle trajectory data. First, a joint least-squares feature matching-based floating vehicle trajectory correction model is used to correct the floating vehicle trajectory; then a convolutional network model DAD-LinkNet based on a dual-attention mechanism is proposed, and road features are extracted from the channel domain and spatial domain of the target image in turn by constructing a dual-attention module in the dilated convolutional layer and adopting a cascade connection; a weighted hyperparameter loss function is used as the loss function of the model; finally, the road extraction is completed based on the proposed DAD-LinkNet model. Experiments on three datasets show that the proposed DAD-LinkNet model outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in terms of accuracy and connectivity.