Learning Image-based Tree Crown Segmentation from Enhanced Lidar-based Pseudo-labels
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| author | Pesonen, Julius Rua, Stefan Taher, Josef Koivumäki, Niko Yu, Xiaowei Honkavaara, Eija |
| author_facet | Pesonen, Julius Rua, Stefan Taher, Josef Koivumäki, Niko Yu, Xiaowei Honkavaara, Eija |
| contents | Mapping individual tree crowns is essential for tasks such as maintaining urban tree inventories and monitoring forest health, which help us understand and care for our environment. However, automatically separating the crowns from each other in aerial imagery is challenging due to factors such as the texture and partial tree crown overlaps. In this study, we present a method to train deep learning models that segment and separate individual trees from RGB and multispectral images, using pseudo-labels derived from aerial laser scanning (ALS) data. Our study shows that the ALS-derived pseudo-labels can be enhanced using a zero-shot instance segmentation model, Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2). Our method offers a way to obtain domain-specific training annotations for optical image-based models without any manual annotation cost, leading to segmentation models which outperform any available models which have been targeted for general domain deployment on the same task. |
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| spellingShingle | Learning Image-based Tree Crown Segmentation from Enhanced Lidar-based Pseudo-labels Pesonen, Julius Rua, Stefan Taher, Josef Koivumäki, Niko Yu, Xiaowei Honkavaara, Eija Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition I.4.6 Mapping individual tree crowns is essential for tasks such as maintaining urban tree inventories and monitoring forest health, which help us understand and care for our environment. However, automatically separating the crowns from each other in aerial imagery is challenging due to factors such as the texture and partial tree crown overlaps. In this study, we present a method to train deep learning models that segment and separate individual trees from RGB and multispectral images, using pseudo-labels derived from aerial laser scanning (ALS) data. Our study shows that the ALS-derived pseudo-labels can be enhanced using a zero-shot instance segmentation model, Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2). Our method offers a way to obtain domain-specific training annotations for optical image-based models without any manual annotation cost, leading to segmentation models which outperform any available models which have been targeted for general domain deployment on the same task. |
| title | Learning Image-based Tree Crown Segmentation from Enhanced Lidar-based Pseudo-labels |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition I.4.6 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.13022 |