KAN You See It? KANs and Sentinel for Effective and Explainable Crop Field Segmentation

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Main Authors: Cambrin, Daniele Rege, Poeta, Eleonora, Pastor, Eliana, Cerquitelli, Tania, Baralis, Elena, Garza, Paolo
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Published: 2024
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author Cambrin, Daniele Rege
Poeta, Eleonora
Pastor, Eliana
Cerquitelli, Tania
Baralis, Elena
Garza, Paolo
author_facet Cambrin, Daniele Rege
Poeta, Eleonora
Pastor, Eliana
Cerquitelli, Tania
Baralis, Elena
Garza, Paolo
contents Segmentation of crop fields is essential for enhancing agricultural productivity, monitoring crop health, and promoting sustainable practices. Deep learning models adopted for this task must ensure accurate and reliable predictions to avoid economic losses and environmental impact. The newly proposed Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (KANs) offer promising advancements in the performance of neural networks. This paper analyzes the integration of KAN layers into the U-Net architecture (U-KAN) to segment crop fields using Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-1 satellite images and provides an analysis of the performance and explainability of these networks. Our findings indicate a 2\% improvement in IoU compared to the traditional full-convolutional U-Net model in fewer GFLOPs. Furthermore, gradient-based explanation techniques show that U-KAN predictions are highly plausible and that the network has a very high ability to focus on the boundaries of cultivated areas rather than on the areas themselves. The per-channel relevance analysis also reveals that some channels are irrelevant to this task.
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spellingShingle KAN You See It? KANs and Sentinel for Effective and Explainable Crop Field Segmentation
Cambrin, Daniele Rege
Poeta, Eleonora
Pastor, Eliana
Cerquitelli, Tania
Baralis, Elena
Garza, Paolo
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Segmentation of crop fields is essential for enhancing agricultural productivity, monitoring crop health, and promoting sustainable practices. Deep learning models adopted for this task must ensure accurate and reliable predictions to avoid economic losses and environmental impact. The newly proposed Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (KANs) offer promising advancements in the performance of neural networks. This paper analyzes the integration of KAN layers into the U-Net architecture (U-KAN) to segment crop fields using Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-1 satellite images and provides an analysis of the performance and explainability of these networks. Our findings indicate a 2\% improvement in IoU compared to the traditional full-convolutional U-Net model in fewer GFLOPs. Furthermore, gradient-based explanation techniques show that U-KAN predictions are highly plausible and that the network has a very high ability to focus on the boundaries of cultivated areas rather than on the areas themselves. The per-channel relevance analysis also reveals that some channels are irrelevant to this task.
title KAN You See It? KANs and Sentinel for Effective and Explainable Crop Field Segmentation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.07040