• Laser & Optoelectronics Progress
  • Vol. 60, Issue 14, 1428004 (2023)
Hao Wan1, Lei Lei1、*, Rui Li2, Wei Chen3, and Yiqing Shi3
Author Affiliations
  • 1Electric Power Research Institute of State Grid Shaanxi Electric Power Company, Xi'an 710100, Shaanxi, China
  • 2State Grid Co., Ltd., Beijing 100031, China
  • 3State Grid Shaanxi Electric Power Co., Ltd., Xi'an 710048, Shaanxi, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/LOP221068 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Hao Wan, Lei Lei, Rui Li, Wei Chen, Yiqing Shi. Cloud Detection in Landsat8 OLI Remote Sensing Image with Dual Attention Mechanism[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2023, 60(14): 1428004 Copy Citation Text show less
    Structure of ResNet model
    Fig. 1. Structure of ResNet model
    Improved densely connected modules
    Fig. 2. Improved densely connected modules
    Conversion module
    Fig. 3. Conversion module
    Bottleneck structure. (a) Traditional bottleneck structure; (b) improved bottleneck structure
    Fig. 4. Bottleneck structure. (a) Traditional bottleneck structure; (b) improved bottleneck structure
    Channel attention module
    Fig. 5. Channel attention module
    Location attention module
    Fig. 6. Location attention module
    NLNet module structure
    Fig. 7. NLNet module structure
    Global context modeling module
    Fig. 8. Global context modeling module
    Atrous convolution module
    Fig. 9. Atrous convolution module
    Densely connected network incorporating attention mechanism
    Fig. 10. Densely connected network incorporating attention mechanism
    Ratio of image blocks covered by thick and thin clouds in different datasets
    Fig. 11. Ratio of image blocks covered by thick and thin clouds in different datasets
    Detection results of thin and thick clouds over land and coastal areas. (a) Original composite image (land); (b) cloud detection results of proposed algorithm (land); (c) original composite image (ocean); (d) cloud detection results of proposed algorithm (ocean)
    Fig. 12. Detection results of thin and thick clouds over land and coastal areas. (a) Original composite image (land); (b) cloud detection results of proposed algorithm (land); (c) original composite image (ocean); (d) cloud detection results of proposed algorithm (ocean)
    Detection results of different cloud detection methods in scenario 1. (a) Original composite image; (b) real image of the ground; (c) F-CNN algorithm; (d) proposed algorithm+no multi-scale; (e) RF algorithm; (f) SVM algorithm; (g) proposed algorithm; (h) Fmask algorithm
    Fig. 13. Detection results of different cloud detection methods in scenario 1. (a) Original composite image; (b) real image of the ground; (c) F-CNN algorithm; (d) proposed algorithm+no multi-scale; (e) RF algorithm; (f) SVM algorithm; (g) proposed algorithm; (h) Fmask algorithm
    Detection results of different cloud detection methods in scenario 2. (a) Original composite image; (b) real image of the ground; (c) F-CNN algorithm; (d) proposed algorithm+no multi-scale; (e) RF algorithm; (f) SVM algorithm; (g) proposed algorithm; (h) Fmask algorithm
    Fig. 14. Detection results of different cloud detection methods in scenario 2. (a) Original composite image; (b) real image of the ground; (c) F-CNN algorithm; (d) proposed algorithm+no multi-scale; (e) RF algorithm; (f) SVM algorithm; (g) proposed algorithm; (h) Fmask algorithm
    Detection results of different cloud detection methods in scenario 3. (a) Original composite image; (b) real image of the ground; (c) F-CNN algorithm; (d) proposed algorithm+no multi-scale; (e) RF algorithm; (f) SVM algorithm; (g) proposed algorithm; (h) Fmask algorithm
    Fig. 15. Detection results of different cloud detection methods in scenario 3. (a) Original composite image; (b) real image of the ground; (c) F-CNN algorithm; (d) proposed algorithm+no multi-scale; (e) RF algorithm; (f) SVM algorithm; (g) proposed algorithm; (h) Fmask algorithm
    Test datasets cloud detection accuracy distribution map. (a) Comparison with F-CNN model; (b) comparison with self-contrast model; (c) comparison with RF model; (d) comparison with SVM model
    Fig. 16. Test datasets cloud detection accuracy distribution map. (a) Comparison with F-CNN model; (b) comparison with self-contrast model; (c) comparison with RF model; (d) comparison with SVM model
    RR distribution of cloud test datasets
    Fig. 17. RR distribution of cloud test datasets
    ER distribution of cloud test datasets
    Fig. 18. ER distribution of cloud test datasets
    FAR distribution of cloud test dataset
    Fig. 19. FAR distribution of cloud test dataset
    RER distribution of cloud test datasets
    Fig. 20. RER distribution of cloud test datasets
    Cloud cover rate /%Train setTrain set ratio /%Test setTest set ratio /%
    029423.831138.6
    (0,10]30024.217722.0
    (10,20]16413.3809.9
    (20,30]15512.6658.0
    (30,40]1139.1607.5
    (40,100]21017.011314.0
    Table 1. Image distribution of cloud coverage in train and test datasets
    MethodPrecision_cRecall_cF_Score_cPrecision_tRecall_tF_Score_tTime /s
    SVM0.86480.79840.83030.74090.58790.65567.8
    RF0.86280.81940.84060.73960.59230.657810.6
    F-CNN0.87010.76200.81250.70110.59430.643313.7
    self-contrast0.86660.64610.74030.58990.47840.528316.8
    Proposed method0.90740.89460.89200.78130.76930.77539.2
    Table 2. Detection performance of different methods for thick and thin clouds
    MethodRRERFARRER
    SVM0.83400.05490.051715.19
    RF0.84400.06010.027514.05
    FCNN0.82360.06370.037112.93
    self-contrast0.73610.08870.02908.30
    Fmask0.99230.10490.63419.46
    Proposed method0.93400.03850.069324.22
    Table 3. Full cloud detection performance of different methods
    TypeRRERTime /s
    A0.7930.069112.7
    B0.8020.070913.3
    C0.8900.077711.2
    Table 4. Ablation experiment results
    Hao Wan, Lei Lei, Rui Li, Wei Chen, Yiqing Shi. Cloud Detection in Landsat8 OLI Remote Sensing Image with Dual Attention Mechanism[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2023, 60(14): 1428004
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