arXiv:2510.17644cs.CV2025-10

用自监督学习自动识别被植被遮挡的考古石墙,大幅减少标注数据需求。

Mapping Hidden Heritage: Self-supervised Pre-training on High-Resolution LiDAR DEM Derivatives for Archaeological Stone Wall Detection

  • 基于高分辨率激光雷达数字高程图多视角自监督预训练,学习几何不变特征。
  • 在澳洲遗产地测试中达68.6%交并比,仅需10%标注数据仍保持63.8%性能。
  • 适合需要少标注、大范围探测的文化遗产与生态敏感区监测任务。

历史干砌石墙在澳大利亚具有重要文化与生态价值,是历史标记并有助于干旱季节的生态系统保护与林火管理。然而,由于偏远或植被覆盖区域难以进入,许多此类结构未被记录。深度学习分割可实现规模化自动测绘,但面临两大挑战:低矮石墙被密集植被遮挡,以及标注数据稀缺。本文提出DINO-CV,一种基于知识蒸馏的自监督跨视角预训练框架,利用高空机载激光雷达生成的数字高程模型(DEMs)衍生图像(如多方向坡度图和考古地形可视化图),学习跨视图的几何与地貌不变特征,有效缓解植被遮挡与数据不足问题。在维多利亚州布吉·比姆文化景观(联合国教科文组织世界遗产地)的应用中,该方法在测试区域取得68.6%的平均交并比(mIoU),且仅使用10%标注数据微调后仍保持63.8%的性能。结果表明,该方法在复杂植被环境中对大规模文化遗产特征的自动化测绘具有潜力。此外,该方案亦适用于难以进入或环境敏感区域的环境监测与遗产保护。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Historic dry-stone walls hold significant cultural and environmental importance, serving as historical markers and contributing to ecosystem preservation and wildfire management during dry seasons in Australia. However, many of these stone structures in remote or vegetated landscapes remain undocumented due to limited accessibility and the high cost of manual mapping. Deep learning-based segmentation offers a scalable approach for automated mapping of such features, but challenges remain: 1.the visual occlusion of low-lying dry-stone walls by dense vegetation and 2.the scarcity of labeled training data. This study presents DINO-CV, a self-supervised cross-view pre-training framework based on knowledge distillation, designed for accurate and data-efficient mapping of dry-stone walls using Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) derived from high-resolution airborne LiDAR. By learning invariant geometric and geomorphic features across DEM-derived views, (i.e., Multi-directional Hillshade and Visualization for Archaeological Topography), DINO-CV addresses the occlusion by vegetation and data scarcity challenges. Applied to the Budj Bim Cultural Landscape at Victoria, Australia, a UNESCO World Heritage site, the approach achieves a mean Intersection over Union (mIoU) of 68.6% on test areas and maintains 63.8% mIoU when fine-tuned with only 10% labeled data. These results demonstrate the potential of self-supervised learning on high-resolution DEM derivatives for large-scale, automated mapping of cultural heritage features in complex and vegetated environments. Beyond archaeology, this approach offers a scalable solution for environmental monitoring and heritage preservation across inaccessible or environmentally sensitive regions.

考古测绘自监督学习激光雷达文化遗产

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