Road extraction from high-resolution remote sensing images (HRSI) is a challenging but hot research topic in the past decades. A large number of methods are invented to deal with this problem. This article provides a comprehensive review of these existing approaches. We classified the methods into heuristic and data-driven. The heuristic methods are the mainstream in the early years, and the data-driven methods based on deep learning have been quickly developed recently. With regard to the heuristic methods, the road feature model is firstly introduced, then, the classic extraction methods are reviewed in two sub-categories: semi-automatic and automatic. The principles, inspirations, advantages and disadvantages of these methods are described. In terms of the data-driven methods, the road extraction methods based on deep neural network, particularly those based on patched convolutional neural network, fully convolutional network and generative adversarial network are reviewed. We perform subjective comparisons between the methods inner each type. Furthermore, the quantity performances achieved on the same dataset are compared between the heuristic and data-driven methods to show the strengthening of the data-driven methods. Finally, the conclusion and prospects are summarized.
The road centerline extraction is the key step of the road network extraction and modeling. The hand-craft feature engineering in the traditional road extraction methods is unstable, which makes the extracted road centerline deviated from the road center in complex cases and even results in overall extracting errors. Recently, the road centerline extraction methods based on semantic segmentation employing deep neural network greatly outperformed the traditional methods. Nevertheless, the pixel-wise labels for training deep learning models are expensive and the postprocess of road segmentation is error-prone. Inspired by the work of human pose estimation, we propose DeepWindow, a novel method to automatically extract the road network from remote sensing images. DeepWindow uses a sliding window guided by a CNN-based decision function to track the road network directly from the images without the prior of road segmentation. First of all, we design and train a CNN model to estimate the road center points inside a patch. Then, the road seeds are automatically searched patch by patch employing the CNN model. Finally, starting from seeds, our method first estimates the road direction using a Fourier spectrum analysis algorithm and then iteratively tracks the road center-line along the road direction guided by the CNN model. In our method, the CNN model is trained by point annotations, which greatly reduces the training costs comparing to those in semantic model training. Our method achieves comparable performance with the state-of-the-art road extraction methods, and extensive experiments indicate that our method is robust to the point deviation.
How to characterize rock fissures/fractures is significant for the measurement and analysis in a lot rock engineering applications. A new method for characterizing rock fissure patterns is studied in this paper. It is constructed by combining 1-D fractal dimension and statistical analysis for the whole rock surface in an image. In a binary fissure image, to characterize fissures accurately, all the possible fissures are skeletonized, and then the short lines or curves are removed and the gaps on the main fissure segments are linking up. After that, 1-D fractal dimension is applied for analyzing fissure patterns, in which, the fissure network complexity and the fissure quantity is characterized by statistical analysis. The testing fissure images were taken from a Swedish laboratory and a Chinese Mine, and the testing results prove that the fissure pattern characterization by the new method is promising.
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