Enhanced Hybrid U-Net Framework for Sophisticated Building Automation Extraction Utilizing Decay Matrix

Automatically extracting buildings from remote sensing imagery using deep learning techniques has become essential for various real-world applications. However, mainstream methods often encounter difficulties in accurately extracting and reconstructing fine-grained features due to the heterogeneity and scale variations in building appearances. To address these challenges, we propose LDFormer, an advanced building segmentation model based on linear decay. LDFormer introduces a multi-scale detail fusion bridge (MDFB), which dynamically integrates shallow features to enhance the representation of local details and capture fine-grained local features effectively. To improve global feature extraction, the model incorporates linear decay self-attention (LDSA) and depthwise large separable kernel multi-layer perceptron (DWLSK-MLP) optimizations in the decoder. Specifically, LDSA employs a linear decay matrix within the self-attention mechanism to address long-distance dependency issues, while DWLSK-MLP utilizes step-wise convolutions to achieve a large receptive field. The proposed method has been evaluated on the Massachusetts, Inria, and WHU building datasets, achieving IoU scores of 76.10%, 82.87%, and 91.86%, respectively. LDFormer demonstrates superior performance compared to existing state-of-the-art methods in building segmentation tasks, showcasing its significant potential for building automation extraction.

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