Multi-View Feature Fusion and Rich Information Refinement Network for Semantic Segmentation of Remote Sensing Images

Abstract

Semantic segmentation is currently a hot topic in remote sensing image processing. There are extensive applications in land planning and surveying. Many current studies combine Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), which extract local information, with Transformers, which capture global information, to obtain richer information. However, the fused feature information is not sufficiently enriched and it often lacks detailed refinement. To address this issue, we propose a novel method called the Multi-View Feature Fusion and Rich Information Refinement Network (MFRNet). Our model is equipped with the Multi-View Feature Fusion Block (MAFF) to merge various types of information, including local, non-local, channel, and positional information. Within MAFF, we introduce two innovative methods. The Sliding Heterogeneous Multi-Head Attention (SHMA) extracts local, non-local, and positional information using a sliding window, while the Multi-Scale Hierarchical Compressed Channel Attention (MSCA) leverages bar-shaped pooling kernels and stepwise compression to obtain reliable channel information. Additionally, we introduce the Efficient Feature Refinement Module (EFRM), which enhances segmentation accuracy by interacting the results of the Long-Range Information Perception Branch and the Local Semantic Information Perception Branch. We evaluate our model on the ISPRS Vaihingen and Potsdam datasets. We conducted extensive comparison experiments with state-of-the-art models and verified that MFRNet outperforms other models.

Keywords

• semantic segmentation
• feature refinement
• remote sensing
• multi-view feature fusion