Flight Contrail Segmentation via Augmented Transfer Learning with Novel SR Loss Function in Hough Space
Air transport poses significant environmental challenges, particularly regarding the role of flight contrails in climate change due to their potential global warming impact. Traditional computer vision techniques struggle under varying remote sensing image conditions, and conventional machine learning approaches using convolutional neural networks are limited by the scarcity of hand-labeled contrail datasets. To address these issues, we employ few-shot transfer learning to introduce an innovative approach for accurate contrail segmentation with minimal labeled data. Our methodology leverages backbone segmentation models pre-trained on extensive image datasets and fine-tuned using an augmented contrail-specific dataset. We also introduce a novel loss function, termed SR Loss, which enhances contrail line detection by transforming the image space into Hough space. This transformation results in a significant performance improvement over generic image segmentation loss functions. Our approach offers a robust solution to the challenges posed by limited labeled data and significantly advances the state of contrail detection models.
Code (1)
Tasks
Image SegmentationLine DetectionSegmentationSemantic SegmentationTransfer LearningSimilar Papers 제목 키워드 기반
Performance evaluation of deep segmentation models for Contrails detection
Contrails, short for condensation trails, are line-shaped ice clouds produced by aircraft engine exhaust when they fly through cold and humid air. They generate a greenhouse effect by absorbing or directing back to Earth…
SegmentationGVCCS: A Dataset for Contrail Identification and Tracking on Visible Whole Sky Camera Sequences
Aviation's climate impact includes not only CO2 emissions but also significant non-CO2 effects, especially from contrails. These ice clouds can alter Earth's radiative balance, potentially rivaling the warming effect of …
Semantic SegmentationPanoptic SegmentationInstance SegmentationContrail-to-Flight Attribution Using Ground Visible Cameras and Flight Surveillance Data
Aviation's non-CO2 effects, particularly contrails, are a significant contributor to its climate impact. Persistent contrails can evolve into cirrus-like clouds that trap outgoing infrared radiation, with radiative forci…
Combining UPerNet and ConvNeXt for Contrails Identification to reduce Global Warming
Semantic segmentation is a critical tool in computer vision, applied in various domains like autonomous driving and medical imaging. This study focuses on aircraft contrail detection in global satellite images to improve…
Autonomous DrivingModel SelectionSemantic SegmentationOptimizing Contrail Detection: A Deep Learning Approach with EfficientNet-b4 Encoding
In the pursuit of environmental sustainability, the aviation industry faces the challenge of minimizing its ecological footprint. Among the key solutions is contrail avoidance, targeting the linear ice-crystal clouds pro…