Airport Detection-Based Cosaliency on Remote Sensing Images

This paper proposes a contour extraction model based on cosaliency detection for remote sensing image airport detection and improves the traditional line segmentation detection (LSD) algorithm to make it more suitable for the goal of this paper. Our model consists of two parts, a cosaliency detection module and a contour extraction module. In the first part, the cosaliency detection module mainly uses the network framework of Visual Geometry Group-19 (VGG-19) to obtain the result maps of the interimage comparison and the intraimage consistency, and then the two result maps are multiplied pixel by pixel to obtain the cosaliency mask. In the second part, the contour extraction module uses superpixel segmentation and parallel line segment detection (PLSD) to refine the airport contour and runway information to obtain the preprocessed result map, and then we merge the result of cosaliency detection with the preprocessed result to obtain the final airport contour. We compared the model proposed in this article with four commonly used methods. The experimental results show that the accuracy of the model is 15% higher than that of the target detection result based on the saliency model, and the accuracy of the active contour model based on the saliency analysis is improved by 1%. This shows that the model proposed in this paper can extract a contour that closely matches the actual target.