Nacala-Roof-Material: Drone Imagery for Roof Detection, Classification, and Segmentation to Support Mosquito-borne Disease Risk Assessment

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Main Authors: Guthula, Venkanna Babu, Oehmcke, Stefan, Chilaule, Remigio, Zhang, Hui, Lang, Nico, Kariryaa, Ankit, Mottelson, Johan, Igel, Christian
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author Guthula, Venkanna Babu
Oehmcke, Stefan
Chilaule, Remigio
Zhang, Hui
Lang, Nico
Kariryaa, Ankit
Mottelson, Johan
Igel, Christian
author_facet Guthula, Venkanna Babu
Oehmcke, Stefan
Chilaule, Remigio
Zhang, Hui
Lang, Nico
Kariryaa, Ankit
Mottelson, Johan
Igel, Christian
contents As low-quality housing and in particular certain roof characteristics are associated with an increased risk of malaria, classification of roof types based on remote sensing imagery can support the assessment of malaria risk and thereby help prevent the disease. To support research in this area, we release the Nacala-Roof-Material dataset, which contains high-resolution drone images from Mozambique with corresponding labels delineating houses and specifying their roof types. The dataset defines a multi-task computer vision problem, comprising object detection, classification, and segmentation. In addition, we benchmarked various state-of-the-art approaches on the dataset. Canonical U-Nets, YOLOv8, and a custom decoder on pretrained DINOv2 served as baselines. We show that each of the methods has its advantages but none is superior on all tasks, which highlights the potential of our dataset for future research in multi-task learning. While the tasks are closely related, accurate segmentation of objects does not necessarily imply accurate instance separation, and vice versa. We address this general issue by introducing a variant of the deep ordinal watershed (DOW) approach that additionally separates the interior of objects, allowing for improved object delineation and separation. We show that our DOW variant is a generic approach that improves the performance of both U-Net and DINOv2 backbones, leading to a better trade-off between semantic segmentation and instance segmentation.
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spellingShingle Nacala-Roof-Material: Drone Imagery for Roof Detection, Classification, and Segmentation to Support Mosquito-borne Disease Risk Assessment
Guthula, Venkanna Babu
Oehmcke, Stefan
Chilaule, Remigio
Zhang, Hui
Lang, Nico
Kariryaa, Ankit
Mottelson, Johan
Igel, Christian
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
As low-quality housing and in particular certain roof characteristics are associated with an increased risk of malaria, classification of roof types based on remote sensing imagery can support the assessment of malaria risk and thereby help prevent the disease. To support research in this area, we release the Nacala-Roof-Material dataset, which contains high-resolution drone images from Mozambique with corresponding labels delineating houses and specifying their roof types. The dataset defines a multi-task computer vision problem, comprising object detection, classification, and segmentation. In addition, we benchmarked various state-of-the-art approaches on the dataset. Canonical U-Nets, YOLOv8, and a custom decoder on pretrained DINOv2 served as baselines. We show that each of the methods has its advantages but none is superior on all tasks, which highlights the potential of our dataset for future research in multi-task learning. While the tasks are closely related, accurate segmentation of objects does not necessarily imply accurate instance separation, and vice versa. We address this general issue by introducing a variant of the deep ordinal watershed (DOW) approach that additionally separates the interior of objects, allowing for improved object delineation and separation. We show that our DOW variant is a generic approach that improves the performance of both U-Net and DINOv2 backbones, leading to a better trade-off between semantic segmentation and instance segmentation.
title Nacala-Roof-Material: Drone Imagery for Roof Detection, Classification, and Segmentation to Support Mosquito-borne Disease Risk Assessment
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04949