Vegetation land segmentation with multi-modal and multi-temporal remote sensing images: a temporal learning approach and a new dataset

• Main Authors: Qu, Fang, Sun, Youqiang, Zhou, Man, Liu, Liu, Yang, Huamin, Zhang, Junqing, Huang, He, Hong, Danfeng
• Other Authors: College of Computing and Data Science
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Computer and Information Science; Multi-temporal; VRSFormer
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/178519
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In recent years, remote sensing analysis has gained significant attention in visual analysis applications, particularly in segmenting and recognizing remote sensing images. However, the existing research has predominantly focused on single-period RGB image analysis, thus overlooking the complexities of remote sensing image capture, especially in highly vegetated land parcels. In this paper, we provide a large-scale vegetation remote sensing (VRS) dataset and introduce the VRS-Seg task for multi-modal and multi-temporal vegetation segmentation. The VRS dataset incorporates diverse modalities and temporal variations, and its annotations are organized using the Vegetation Knowledge Graph (VKG), thereby providing detailed object attribute information. To address the VRS-Seg task, we introduce VRSFormer, a critical pipeline that integrates multi-temporal and multi-modal data fusion, geometric contour refinement, and category-level classification inference. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and generalization capability of our approach. The availability of VRS and the VRS-Seg task paves the way for further research in multi-modal and multi-temporal vegetation segmentation in remote sensing imagery.