Multispectral Blind Image Super-Resolution for Standing Dead Tree Segmentation

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Main Authors: Ahishali, Mete, Rahman, Anis Ur, Heinaro, Einari, Degerli, Aysen, Junttila, Samuli
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author Ahishali, Mete
Rahman, Anis Ur
Heinaro, Einari
Degerli, Aysen
Junttila, Samuli
author_facet Ahishali, Mete
Rahman, Anis Ur
Heinaro, Einari
Degerli, Aysen
Junttila, Samuli
contents Mapping standing dead trees is crucial for acquiring information on the effects of climate change on forests and forest biodiversity. However, leveraging high-quality aerial imagery for dead tree segmentation poses challenges due to limitations in sensor availability and the scarcity of annotated data. In this study, we propose a generic blind super-resolution framework that incorporates Attention-Guided Domain Adaptation Networks (ADA-Nets) to learn the mapping from low-resolution to high-resolution multispectral image domains. Our approach operates solely on unpaired samples, mimicking real-world conditions, i.e., low-resolution images are not synthetically obtained by downsampling the high-resolution images. Moreover, the proposed method serves as a general-purpose restorer addressing several image degradation types, including saturation, noise, and low contrast that typically occur in low-resolution images acquired by low-end sensors. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to perform real-world and generic super-resolution for multispectral data in the scope of standing dead tree segmentation. Experimental evaluations demonstrate segmentation performances of 54% and 64% in Dice scores. Notably, the first result is obtained without using any high-resolution annotations; the segmentation network is trained on super-resolved low-resolution images, while evaluation is performed on the high-resolution data. We publicly share the aerial multispectral dataset with manually annotated labels at https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/meteahishali/aerial-imagery-for-dead-tree-segmentation-poland.
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spellingShingle Multispectral Blind Image Super-Resolution for Standing Dead Tree Segmentation
Ahishali, Mete
Rahman, Anis Ur
Heinaro, Einari
Degerli, Aysen
Junttila, Samuli
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Mapping standing dead trees is crucial for acquiring information on the effects of climate change on forests and forest biodiversity. However, leveraging high-quality aerial imagery for dead tree segmentation poses challenges due to limitations in sensor availability and the scarcity of annotated data. In this study, we propose a generic blind super-resolution framework that incorporates Attention-Guided Domain Adaptation Networks (ADA-Nets) to learn the mapping from low-resolution to high-resolution multispectral image domains. Our approach operates solely on unpaired samples, mimicking real-world conditions, i.e., low-resolution images are not synthetically obtained by downsampling the high-resolution images. Moreover, the proposed method serves as a general-purpose restorer addressing several image degradation types, including saturation, noise, and low contrast that typically occur in low-resolution images acquired by low-end sensors. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to perform real-world and generic super-resolution for multispectral data in the scope of standing dead tree segmentation. Experimental evaluations demonstrate segmentation performances of 54% and 64% in Dice scores. Notably, the first result is obtained without using any high-resolution annotations; the segmentation network is trained on super-resolved low-resolution images, while evaluation is performed on the high-resolution data. We publicly share the aerial multispectral dataset with manually annotated labels at https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/meteahishali/aerial-imagery-for-dead-tree-segmentation-poland.
title Multispectral Blind Image Super-Resolution for Standing Dead Tree Segmentation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.02471