用像素级分割精准测量海滩垃圾面积,提升生态风险评估可信度。
PLAS-Net: Pixel-Level Area Segmentation for UAV-Based Beach Litter Monitoring

- 提出PLAS-Net框架,实现无人机影像中垃圾的像素级区域分割。
- 在泰国可涛岛数据集上达到58.7% mAP_50,精度优于11个基线模型。
- 揭示渔具虽数量少但占面积大,助力更真实污染分析与溯源。
准确量化海滩垃圾的物理暴露面积,而非简单计数,对可信的海洋废弃物生态风险评估至关重要。然而,当前基于无人机的自动化监测多依赖边界框检测,会系统性高估不规则垃圾物体的平面面积。为解决这一几何缺陷,我们提出PLAS-Net(Pixel-level Litter Area Segmentor),一个实例分割框架,可提取海岸垃圾的像素级真实足迹。在泰国可涛岛受季风影响的口袋海滩无人机影像上评估,PLAS-Net的mAP_50达58.7%,精度高于11个基线模型,复杂海岸条件下仍具备更高掩码保真度。为验证分割精度对环境分析结论的影响,我们进行了三项下游应用:(i) 对归一化塑料密度(NPD)进行幂律拟合,刻画碎片化动态;(ii) 构建面积加权生态风险指数(ERI),定位空间污染热点;(iii) 源成分分析揭示“数量-面积悖论”:渔具占物品总数比例小,但单位物品所占面积最大。像素级面积提取相比单纯计数,能提供更丰富的海岸监测信息。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Accurate quantification of the physical exposure area of beach litter, rather than simple item counts, is essential for credible ecological risk assessment of marine debris. However, automated UAV-based monitoring predominantly relies on bounding-box detection, which systematically overestimates the planar area of irregular litter objects. To address this geometric limitation, we develop PLAS-Net (Pixel-level Litter Area Segmentor), an instance segmentation framework that extracts pixel-accurate physical footprints of coastal debris. Evaluated on UAV imagery from a monsoon-driven pocket beach in Koh Tao, Thailand, PLAS-Net achieves a mAP_50 of 58.7% with higher precision than eleven baseline models, demonstrating improved mask fidelity under complex coastal conditions. To illustrate how the accuracy of the masking affects the conclusions of environmental analysis, we conducted three downstream demonstrations: (i) power-law fitting of normalized plastic density (NPD) to characterize fragmentation dynamics; (ii) area-weighted ecological risk index (ERI) to map spatial pollution hotspots; and (iii) source composition analysis revealing the abundance-area paradox: fishing gear constitutes a small proportion of the total number of items, but has the largest physical area per unit item. Pixel-level area extraction can provide more valuable information for coastal monitoring compared to methods based solely on counting.
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