TE-DeeplabV3: Semantic Segmentation of Nighttime Building Facades Taking into Account High and Low Exposure
摘要
Semantic segmentation of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) nighttime oblique images is critical for UAV navigation and nighttime urban interior research. However, complex lighting conditions at night often obscure the details of the building facade in single-exposure images, causing previous segmentation methods to suffer from blurred edges and detail loss. To address boundary blurring and information loss in the segmentation of nighttime building facade, we propose a three-branch improved DeeplabV3 network (TE-DeeplabV3) that incorporates high/low exposure data. In the high- and low-exposure branches, an image luminance-guided exposure attention module (LGEA) is added to prioritize feature-rich regions in the corresponding exposure images. A cross-exposure attention module (CEA) is integrated into the medium-exposure branch to enable comprehensive feature extraction. Experiments on a custom UAV nighttime dataset show that TE-DeeplabV3 achieves a mIoU of 93.6% (1.8% improvement over DeeplabV3) and a building facade category IoU of 91.8% (2.5% improvement over DeeplabV3), providing a more accurate boundary segmentation for building facades.