The objective of this paper is to detect the type of vegetation so that a more accurate Digital Terrain Model (DTM) can be generated by excluding the vegetation from the Digital Surface Model (DSM) based on the vegetation type (such as trees). This way, many different inpainting methods can be applied subsequently to restore the terrain information from the removed vegetation pixels from DSM and obtain a more accurate DTM. We trained three DeepLabV3+ models with three different datasets that are collected at different resolutions. Among the three DeepLabV3+ models, the model trained with the dataset that has an image resolution close to the test data images provided the best performance and the semantic segmentation results with this model looked highly promising.
To accurately extract digital terrain model (DTM), it is necessary to remove heights due to vegetation such as trees and shrubs and other manmade structures such as buildings, bridges, etc. from the digital surface model (DSM). The resulting DTM can then be used for construction planning, land surveying, etc. Normally, the process of extracting DTM involves two steps. First, accurate land cover classification is required. Second, an image inpainting process is needed to fill in the missing pixels due to trees, buildings, bridges, etc. In this paper, we focus on the second step of using image inpainting algorithms for terrain reconstruction. In particular, we evaluate seven conventional and deep learning based inpainting algorithms in the literature using two datasets. Both objective and subjective comparisons were carried out. It was observed that some algorithms yielded slightly better performance than others.
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