Abstract:
Urban greening trees play a significant role in optimizing the environment, and the segmentation of branches can effectively help researchers assess the growth status of ...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
Urban greening trees play a significant role in optimizing the environment, and the segmentation of branches can effectively help researchers assess the growth status of trees. This paper proposed an innovative RGB image-based model to segment tree branches within urban landscapes. The proposed model employed a dual-encoder architecture, including a basic encoder and an edge encoder. These components were designed with specialized blocks adept at extracting critical semantic features and edge information, enhancing the model's ability to segment fine branches. A graph reasoning decoder block with attention-based feature fusion was proposed to capture the semantic associations between regions incorporating edge information. Moreover, the elastic interaction-based loss function, a groundbreaking loss function, was introduced to ensure that the segmentation of the fine branches should be achieved smoothly and consistently. Upon evaluation against a public urban street tree dataset, the precision, recall, IoU, and accuracy of tree branch segmentation are 94.39%, 93.16%, 88.27%, and 98.78%, respectively, achieving the best result among all the tested models. This performance demonstrates the impact of deep learning on enhancing urban greening and sustainable development in effective tree management.
Date of Conference: 06-10 October 2024
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 20 January 2025
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