Cross-Scale Pretraining: Enhancing Self-Supervised Learning for Low-Resolution Satellite Imagery for Semantic Segmentation

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Auteurs principaux: Waithaka, John, Bwirayesu, Gustave, Busogi, Moise
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author Waithaka, John
Bwirayesu, Gustave
Busogi, Moise
author_facet Waithaka, John
Bwirayesu, Gustave
Busogi, Moise
contents Self-supervised pretraining in remote sensing is mostly done using mid-spatial resolution (MR) image datasets due to their high availability. Given the release of high-resolution (HR) datasets, we ask how HR datasets can be included in self-supervised pretraining to enhance MR image representation learning and downstream segmentation performance on MR tasks. We design a spatial affinity component that can be added to existing self-supervised learning frameworks and that uses HR imagery to learn better representations of MR imagery. We test the spatial affinity component on two self-supervised learning frameworks and show that it outperforms models pretrained on HR or MR images alone.
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spellingShingle Cross-Scale Pretraining: Enhancing Self-Supervised Learning for Low-Resolution Satellite Imagery for Semantic Segmentation
Waithaka, John
Bwirayesu, Gustave
Busogi, Moise
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Self-supervised pretraining in remote sensing is mostly done using mid-spatial resolution (MR) image datasets due to their high availability. Given the release of high-resolution (HR) datasets, we ask how HR datasets can be included in self-supervised pretraining to enhance MR image representation learning and downstream segmentation performance on MR tasks. We design a spatial affinity component that can be added to existing self-supervised learning frameworks and that uses HR imagery to learn better representations of MR imagery. We test the spatial affinity component on two self-supervised learning frameworks and show that it outperforms models pretrained on HR or MR images alone.
title Cross-Scale Pretraining: Enhancing Self-Supervised Learning for Low-Resolution Satellite Imagery for Semantic Segmentation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.12964