用知识蒸馏和拓扑监督,让模型跨传感器、分辨率通用提取道路。
Distilled Roads: Generalisable Road Network Extraction Across Sensors, Resolutions, and Region

- 通过分辨率递减的课程学习实现跨分辨率知识蒸馏。
- 在0.3-1.0米分辨率下,F1提升达22点,推理速度快3倍。
- 适合需要跨区域、多平台道路提取的遥感应用开发者。
从卫星图像中提取道路网络仍面临地理差异大、遮挡严重及不同分辨率与传感器引入的领域偏移问题。现有模型通常在窄范围分辨率-区域组合上训练,难以泛化至未见环境,如乡村地区、特殊路材区域或新卫星平台影像,常导致预测断裂。模型适应新领域需重训或微调,成本高且易引发灾难性遗忘。本文将全球道路提取视为持续适应问题而非架构问题,提出结合跨分辨率知识蒸馏、多传感器训练与拓扑感知监督的框架,得到一个可泛化于0.3–1.0米分辨率、多卫星平台、跨大陆的单一模型。在公开基准(如City-Scale和Global-Scale)上,其性能优于当前最优结果最高达22个F1点和15个APLS点,同时推理速度提升3倍。结果表明,通过数据课程、蒸馏与拓扑损失等策略,可在不依赖复杂架构的前提下实现对多样化亚米级卫星影像的强鲁棒性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Road network segmentation from satellite imagery remains challenging due to large geographic variation in road appearance, occlusions, and domain shifts introduced by differing resolutions and sensors. Existing models, typically trained under narrow resolution--region combinations, generalise poorly to unseen environments such as rural settings, regions with distinct road materials, or imagery from new satellite platforms, often producing broken or disconnected predictions. Adapting these models to new domains usually requires retraining or fine-tuning, which is costly and risks catastrophic forgetting. In this work, we reframe global road extraction as a continual adaptation problem rather than an architectural one. Our framework combines cross-resolution knowledge distillation across a resolution-decreasing curriculum, multi-sensor training, and topology-aware supervision, yielding a single model that generalises across $0.3-1.0$ m imagery from multiple satellite platforms across continents. On publicly available benchmarks, including City-Scale and Global-Scale, our model outperforms state-of-the-art results by up to $22$ F1 points and $15$ APLS points, while remaining the most efficient, with $3\times$ faster inference. Our results suggest that improved robustness across diverse sub-meter satellite imagery can be achieved through targeted training strategies, such as data curricula, distillation, and topology-aware losses, rather than increasingly complex architectures.
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