River water segmentation in surveillance camera images: A comparative study of offline and online augmentation using 32 CNNs

To obtain reliable water segmentations from image data for real-time monitoring of river water levels, a comparison of 32 convolutional neural networks was performed. They were trained on a new river water segmentation dataset consisting of 1128 images. To prevent overfitting, two methods using offl...

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Main Authors: Franz Wagner, Anette Eltner, Hans-Gerd Maas
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-05-01
Series:International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation
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description To obtain reliable water segmentations from image data for real-time monitoring of river water levels, a comparison of 32 convolutional neural networks was performed. They were trained on a new river water segmentation dataset consisting of 1128 images. To prevent overfitting, two methods using offline and online augmentation were developed to improve the variance. It was found that offline augmentation is superior on fewer data, while online augmentation is advantageous for a larger dataset (such as Cityscapes).The network comparison showed that U-Net performs best on the water segmentation dataset when using an ResNeXt 50 encoding network pre-trained on ImageNet. It achieves an intersection over union (IoU) of 0.91 without augmentation, 0.98 with offline augmentation and 0.93 with the online augmentation method. The authors have applied the algorithms for online and offline augmentation to Cityscapes to verify the applicability of the strategies to other datasets. The mean IoU is 0.86 without augmentation, 0.86 with offline augmentation and 0.87 with online augmentation. Only online augmentation could prevent overfitting on Cityscapes.
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spelling doaj.art-4cc473fbb3a44f81a87525c767d88a542023-05-13T04:24:32ZengElsevierInternational Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation1569-84322023-05-01119103305River water segmentation in surveillance camera images: A comparative study of offline and online augmentation using 32 CNNsFranz Wagner0Anette Eltner1Hans-Gerd Maas2Chair of Photogrammetry, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany; Corresponding author.Junior Professorship in Geosensor Systems, TU Dresden, Dresden, GermanyChair of Photogrammetry, TU Dresden, Dresden, GermanyTo obtain reliable water segmentations from image data for real-time monitoring of river water levels, a comparison of 32 convolutional neural networks was performed. They were trained on a new river water segmentation dataset consisting of 1128 images. To prevent overfitting, two methods using offline and online augmentation were developed to improve the variance. It was found that offline augmentation is superior on fewer data, while online augmentation is advantageous for a larger dataset (such as Cityscapes).The network comparison showed that U-Net performs best on the water segmentation dataset when using an ResNeXt 50 encoding network pre-trained on ImageNet. It achieves an intersection over union (IoU) of 0.91 without augmentation, 0.98 with offline augmentation and 0.93 with the online augmentation method. The authors have applied the algorithms for online and offline augmentation to Cityscapes to verify the applicability of the strategies to other datasets. The mean IoU is 0.86 without augmentation, 0.86 with offline augmentation and 0.87 with online augmentation. Only online augmentation could prevent overfitting on Cityscapes.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1569843223001279Deep learningSegmentationWater segmentationAugmentationCNN comparison
spellingShingle Franz Wagner
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River water segmentation in surveillance camera images: A comparative study of offline and online augmentation using 32 CNNs
International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation
Deep learning
Segmentation
Water segmentation
Augmentation
CNN comparison
title River water segmentation in surveillance camera images: A comparative study of offline and online augmentation using 32 CNNs
title_full River water segmentation in surveillance camera images: A comparative study of offline and online augmentation using 32 CNNs
title_fullStr River water segmentation in surveillance camera images: A comparative study of offline and online augmentation using 32 CNNs
title_full_unstemmed River water segmentation in surveillance camera images: A comparative study of offline and online augmentation using 32 CNNs
title_short River water segmentation in surveillance camera images: A comparative study of offline and online augmentation using 32 CNNs
title_sort river water segmentation in surveillance camera images a comparative study of offline and online augmentation using 32 cnns
topic Deep learning
Segmentation
Water segmentation
Augmentation
CNN comparison
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1569843223001279
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