仅用一张历史地图训练,实现多时期地图的精准语义分割。
Semantic Segmentation for Sequential Historical Maps by Learning from Only One Map
- 利用相邻时期地图的相似性生成伪标签,实现弱监督训练。
- 在哈梅尔地图集上达到77.3% mIoU,比基线提升约20%。
- 适合缺乏标注数据的历史地图数字化任务。
历史地图是记录过去地理信息的重要资源,但多以印刷品形式存在,难以进行现代计算机分析。将这些地图数字化为机器可读格式可促进高效计算分析。本文提出一种基于深度学习的语义分割自动化方法,为扫描后的历史地图每个像素分配语义标签。关键挑战在于缺乏用于训练深度神经网络的真实标注,因人工标注耗时耗力。为此,我们引入一种弱监督的年代追踪策略进行模型微调,利用相邻时期地图在外观和土地利用模式上的相似性指导训练过程。具体而言,将某张地图的模型预测结果作为邻近时期地图的伪标签进行训练。在新构建的Hameln数据集上实验表明,所提方法显著提升了分割性能:最佳情况下,平均交并比(mIoU)达77.3%,较基线方法提升约20%;且微调后模型平均总体准确率达97%,验证了该方法在历史地图数字化中的有效性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Historical maps are valuable resources that capture detailed geographical information from the past. However, these maps are typically available in printed formats, which are not conducive to modern computer-based analyses. Digitizing these maps into a machine-readable format enables efficient computational analysis. In this paper, we propose an automated approach to digitization using deep-learning-based semantic segmentation, which assigns a semantic label to each pixel in scanned historical maps. A key challenge in this process is the lack of ground-truth annotations required for training deep neural networks, as manual labeling is time-consuming and labor-intensive. To address this issue, we introduce a weakly-supervised age-tracing strategy for model fine-tuning. This approach exploits the similarity in appearance and land-use patterns between historical maps from neighboring time periods to guide the training process. Specifically, model predictions for one map are utilized as pseudo-labels for training on maps from adjacent time periods. Experiments conducted on our newly curated \textit{Hameln} dataset demonstrate that the proposed age-tracing strategy significantly enhances segmentation performance compared to baseline models. In the best-case scenario, the mean Intersection over Union (mIoU) achieved 77.3\%, reflecting an improvement of approximately 20\% over baseline methods. Additionally, the fine-tuned model achieved an average overall accuracy of 97\%, highlighting the effectiveness of our approach for digitizing historical maps.
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