An Efficient Water Segmentation Method for SAR Images

Abstract

Water segmentation is a fundamental step for the information processing of SAR image, which plays an important role in ship detection, disaster monitoring and other applications. Because of the complexity of scenario in the SAR images, water segmentation of SAR image is a challenging task. Fewer convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been developed for SAR image water segmentation in recent years, the accuracy and speed of CNN for water segmentation can be further improved. In this paper, we established a SAR water segmentation dataset based on the GF3 satellite data. then an improved water segmentation network based on Bilateral Segmentation Network (BiSeNet) is proposed. Further we propose a loss function based on edge area and a novel training data generation method to improve the segmentation ability of the network. Experimental results based on water segmentation dataset show that the proposed segmentation method has better segmentation accuracy and speed.