Summary of Nacala-roof-material: Drone Imagery For Roof Detection, Classification, and Segmentation to Support Mosquito-borne Disease Risk Assessment, by Venkanna Babu Guthula et al.
Nacala-Roof-Material: Drone Imagery for Roof Detection, Classification, and Segmentation to Support Mosquito-borne Disease Risk Assessment
by Venkanna Babu Guthula, Stefan Oehmcke, Remigio Chilaule, Hui Zhang, Nico Lang, Ankit Kariryaa, Johan Mottelson, Christian Igel
First submitted to arxiv on: 7 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper presents a novel dataset and computer vision approaches for assessing malaria risk by classifying roof types based on remote sensing imagery. The Nacala-Roof-Material dataset contains high-resolution drone images from Mozambique with corresponding labels delineating houses and specifying their roof types. The dataset defines a multi-task problem involving object detection, classification, and segmentation, which is benchmarked against state-of-the-art approaches such as Canonical U-Nets, YOLOv8, and custom decoders on pretrained DINOv2 models. Each method has its advantages but none is superior on all tasks, highlighting the potential of the dataset for future research in multi-task learning. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps prevent malaria by creating a new way to look at roofs using special images taken from high above. It makes a big dataset with lots of pictures and labels that say what kind of roof it is. Scientists can use this data to train computers to recognize different types of roofs, which will help them figure out where people are more likely to get malaria. The paper also compares how well some popular computer vision methods do on this task. It shows that each method is good at something different, but none is perfect. This means scientists can try different approaches and see what works best for their project. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Classification » Multi task » Object detection
