A Debiasing Variational Autoencoder for Deforestation Mapping

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Ortega Adarme, M.X.; Vega, P.J.S.; Costa, G.A.O.P.; Feitosa, R.Q.; Heipke, C.: A Debiasing Variational Autoencoder for Deforestation Mapping. In: Altan, O.; Sunar, F.; Klein, D. (Eds.): International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment (ISRSE-39) “From Human needs to SDGs”. Katlenburg-Lindau : Copernicus Publications, 2023 (International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences (ISPRS Archives) ; XLVIII-M-1-2023), S. 217-223. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlviii-m-1-2023-217-2023

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Deep Learning (DL) algorithms provide numerous benefits in different applications, and they usually yield successful results in scenarios with enough labeled training data and similar class proportions. However, the labeling procedure is a cost and time-consuming task. Furthermore, numerous real-world classification problems present a high level of class imbalance, as the number of samples from the classes of interest differ significantly. In various cases, such conditions tend to promote the creation of biased systems, which negatively impact their performance. Designing unbiased systems has been an active research topic, and recently some DL-based techniques have demonstrated encouraging results in that regard. In this work, we introduce an extension of the Debiasing Variational Autoencoder (DB-VAE) for semantic segmentation. The approach is based on an end-to-end DL scheme and employs the learned latent variables to adjust the individual sampling probabilities of data points during the training process. For that purpose, we adapted the original DB-VAE architecture for dense labeling in the context of deforestation mapping. Experiments were carried out on a region of the Brazilian Amazon, using Sentinel-2 data and the deforestation map from the PRODES project. The reported results show that the proposed DB-VAE approach is able to learn and identify under-represented samples, and select them more frequently in the training batches, consequently delivering superior classification metrics.
License of this version: CC BY 4.0 Unported
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Issue Date: 2023
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