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Main Authors: Pinkovich, Barak, Matalon, Boaz, Rivlin, Ehud, Rotstein, Hector
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08589
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author Pinkovich, Barak
Matalon, Boaz
Rivlin, Ehud
Rotstein, Hector
author_facet Pinkovich, Barak
Matalon, Boaz
Rivlin, Ehud
Rotstein, Hector
contents This paper presents a Multi-Elevation Semantic Segmentation Image (MESSI) dataset comprising 2525 images taken by a drone flying over dense urban environments. MESSI is unique in two main features. First, it contains images from various altitudes, allowing us to investigate the effect of depth on semantic segmentation. Second, it includes images taken from several different urban regions (at different altitudes). This is important since the variety covers the visual richness captured by a drone's 3D flight, performing horizontal and vertical maneuvers. MESSI contains images annotated with location, orientation, and the camera's intrinsic parameters and can be used to train a deep neural network for semantic segmentation or other applications of interest (e.g., localization, navigation, and tracking). This paper describes the dataset and provides annotation details. It also explains how semantic segmentation was performed using several neural network models and shows several relevant statistics. MESSI will be published in the public domain to serve as an evaluation benchmark for semantic segmentation using images captured by a drone or similar vehicle flying over a dense urban environment.
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spellingShingle MESSI: A Multi-Elevation Semantic Segmentation Image Dataset of an Urban Environment
Pinkovich, Barak
Matalon, Boaz
Rivlin, Ehud
Rotstein, Hector
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Robotics
This paper presents a Multi-Elevation Semantic Segmentation Image (MESSI) dataset comprising 2525 images taken by a drone flying over dense urban environments. MESSI is unique in two main features. First, it contains images from various altitudes, allowing us to investigate the effect of depth on semantic segmentation. Second, it includes images taken from several different urban regions (at different altitudes). This is important since the variety covers the visual richness captured by a drone's 3D flight, performing horizontal and vertical maneuvers. MESSI contains images annotated with location, orientation, and the camera's intrinsic parameters and can be used to train a deep neural network for semantic segmentation or other applications of interest (e.g., localization, navigation, and tracking). This paper describes the dataset and provides annotation details. It also explains how semantic segmentation was performed using several neural network models and shows several relevant statistics. MESSI will be published in the public domain to serve as an evaluation benchmark for semantic segmentation using images captured by a drone or similar vehicle flying over a dense urban environment.
title MESSI: A Multi-Elevation Semantic Segmentation Image Dataset of an Urban Environment
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08589