A Controlled Benchmark of Visual State-Space Backbones with Domain-Shift and Boundary Analysis for Remote-Sensing Segmentation

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Hauptverfasser: Wasalathilaka, Nichula, Perera, Dineth, Samarakoon, Oshadha, Wijenayake, Buddhi, Godaliyadda, Roshan, Herath, Vijitha, Ekanayake, Parakrama
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author Wasalathilaka, Nichula
Perera, Dineth
Samarakoon, Oshadha
Wijenayake, Buddhi
Godaliyadda, Roshan
Herath, Vijitha
Ekanayake, Parakrama
author_facet Wasalathilaka, Nichula
Perera, Dineth
Samarakoon, Oshadha
Wijenayake, Buddhi
Godaliyadda, Roshan
Herath, Vijitha
Ekanayake, Parakrama
contents Visual state-space models (SSMs) are increasingly promoted as efficient alternatives to Vision Transformers, yet their practical advantages remain unclear under fair comparison because existing studies rarely isolate encoder effects from decoder and training choices. We present a strictly controlled benchmark of representative visual SSM families, including VMamba, MambaVision, and Spatial-Mamba, for remote-sensing semantic segmentation, in which only the encoder varies across experiments. Evaluated on LoveDA and ISPRS Potsdam under a unified 4-stage feature interface and a fixed lightweight decoder, the benchmark reveals three main findings, intra-family scaling yields only modest gains, cross-domain generalization is strongly asymmetric, and boundary delineation is the dominant failure mode under distribution shift. Although visual SSMs achieve favorable accuracy-efficiency trade-offs relative to the controlled CNN and Transformer baselines considered here, the results suggest that future improvements are more likely to come from robustness-oriented design and boundary-aware decoding than from encoder scaling alone. By isolating encoder behavior under a unified and reproducible protocol, this study establishes a practical reference benchmark for the design and evaluation of future Mamba-based segmentation backbones
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spellingShingle A Controlled Benchmark of Visual State-Space Backbones with Domain-Shift and Boundary Analysis for Remote-Sensing Segmentation
Wasalathilaka, Nichula
Perera, Dineth
Samarakoon, Oshadha
Wijenayake, Buddhi
Godaliyadda, Roshan
Herath, Vijitha
Ekanayake, Parakrama
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Visual state-space models (SSMs) are increasingly promoted as efficient alternatives to Vision Transformers, yet their practical advantages remain unclear under fair comparison because existing studies rarely isolate encoder effects from decoder and training choices. We present a strictly controlled benchmark of representative visual SSM families, including VMamba, MambaVision, and Spatial-Mamba, for remote-sensing semantic segmentation, in which only the encoder varies across experiments. Evaluated on LoveDA and ISPRS Potsdam under a unified 4-stage feature interface and a fixed lightweight decoder, the benchmark reveals three main findings, intra-family scaling yields only modest gains, cross-domain generalization is strongly asymmetric, and boundary delineation is the dominant failure mode under distribution shift. Although visual SSMs achieve favorable accuracy-efficiency trade-offs relative to the controlled CNN and Transformer baselines considered here, the results suggest that future improvements are more likely to come from robustness-oriented design and boundary-aware decoding than from encoder scaling alone. By isolating encoder behavior under a unified and reproducible protocol, this study establishes a practical reference benchmark for the design and evaluation of future Mamba-based segmentation backbones
title A Controlled Benchmark of Visual State-Space Backbones with Domain-Shift and Boundary Analysis for Remote-Sensing Segmentation
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18721