arXiv:2606.24786cs.CV2026-06

用噪声标注的卫星图实现精准树数统计,不依赖人工精细标注。

Counting Trees from Satellite Imagery with Noisy Supervision

论文配图:Counting Trees from Satellite Imagery with Noisy Supervision
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  • 将树木计数建模为不平衡最优传输的密度匹配问题。
  • 在跨洲3传感器数据上达到优于检测/回归/传统匹配方法的精度。
  • 自校正机制利用传输残差优化噪声标注,适合大规模生态监测。

树木计数是环境监测的基础任务,但卫星影像中单棵树在密林区边界模糊,个体定义不明确。大规模人工标注成本过高,而机载激光雷达虽可提供可扩展标注,但存在噪声且难以有效利用。本文将树木计数建模为基于不平衡最优传输的空间密度匹配问题,自然适应孤立树精确定位与密集林区的鲁棒密度估计。进一步引入自校正机制,利用传输残差在训练中逐步优化噪声监督。我们在涵盖三大洲、三种卫星传感器的新基准TinyTrees上评估,该数据集覆盖25,890 km²,含超过2.16亿棵树的标注(其中63.9万为人工验证实例)。所提方法在检测、回归及分布匹配基线中均表现更优,验证了不平衡传输与可靠性感知监督的有效性。代码、数据与模型见https://github.com/dgominski/treematch。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Counting individual trees is a fundamental task for environmental monitoring, yet remains largely unexplored with satellite imagery. At these resolutions, isolated trees may still be identifiable, but crown boundaries become ambiguous in dense forests, making the notion of an individual tree inherently ill-defined. Moreover, large-scale manual annotations of individual trees are prohibitively expensive. While scalable supervision can be derived from airborne LiDAR, the resulting annotations are noisy and difficult to exploit effectively. We address these challenges by formulating tree counting as a spatial density matching problem supervised through Unbalanced Optimal Transport. This formulation naturally accommodates both precise localization of isolate trees and robust density estimation in dense forests. We further introduce a self-correction mechanism that leverages transport residuals to progressively refine noisy supervision during training. We evaluate our approach on TinyTrees, a new benchmark spanning three continents and three satellite sensors, comprising over 216 million tree annotations (including 639k manually verified instances) across $25\,890$ km$^2$. Our method consistently outperforms detection-based, regression-based, and transport-based distribution-matching baselines, demonstrating the effectiveness of unbalanced transport and reliability-aware supervision for large-scale tree counting from satellite imagery. Code, data and models are available at https://github.com/dgominski/treematch.

树木计数卫星影像最优传输噪声标注

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