Building and Road Recognition in Dense Urban Informal Settlements: A Dataset and Benchmark

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Autori principali: Long, Hongyu, Liu, Jiaxuan, Cao, Rui
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author Long, Hongyu
Liu, Jiaxuan
Cao, Rui
author_facet Long, Hongyu
Liu, Jiaxuan
Cao, Rui
contents As a widespread form of informal settlements, urban villages present significant challenges for sustainable urban development and governance. Precise mapping of their infrastructure is essential, however, existing remote sensing datasets primarily focus on formal urban environments, lacking fine-grained annotated data for the high-density building patterns and narrow road networks typical of urban villages. To address this gap, we introduce the \textit{DenseUIS} dataset, the first high-resolution remote sensing dataset specifically designed for building and road extraction in extremely dense urban informal settlements, covering 126 urban villages across Shenzhen and Guangzhou in China. Furthermore, we conduct a comprehensive evaluation of state-of-the-art deep learning models on this dataset. Experimental results reveal the limitations of existing methods in handling the unique morphological patterns of dense informal settlements, underscoring the need for specialized approaches. \textit{DenseUIS} therefore provides a robust benchmark for advancing fine-grained urban mapping in complex and high-density informal environments. The dataset is publicly available at https://github.com/rui-research/DenseUIS.
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spellingShingle Building and Road Recognition in Dense Urban Informal Settlements: A Dataset and Benchmark
Long, Hongyu
Liu, Jiaxuan
Cao, Rui
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
As a widespread form of informal settlements, urban villages present significant challenges for sustainable urban development and governance. Precise mapping of their infrastructure is essential, however, existing remote sensing datasets primarily focus on formal urban environments, lacking fine-grained annotated data for the high-density building patterns and narrow road networks typical of urban villages. To address this gap, we introduce the \textit{DenseUIS} dataset, the first high-resolution remote sensing dataset specifically designed for building and road extraction in extremely dense urban informal settlements, covering 126 urban villages across Shenzhen and Guangzhou in China. Furthermore, we conduct a comprehensive evaluation of state-of-the-art deep learning models on this dataset. Experimental results reveal the limitations of existing methods in handling the unique morphological patterns of dense informal settlements, underscoring the need for specialized approaches. \textit{DenseUIS} therefore provides a robust benchmark for advancing fine-grained urban mapping in complex and high-density informal environments. The dataset is publicly available at https://github.com/rui-research/DenseUIS.
title Building and Road Recognition in Dense Urban Informal Settlements: A Dataset and Benchmark
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.29856