Learning to segment publicly accessible green spaces with visual and semantic data

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Abstract

The study of the health effects of Publicly Accessible Green Spaces (PAGS), such as parks and urban greenways, has received increasing attention in environmental sciences and public health research. However, the lack of relevant data and methods for PAGS mapping limits this work. To our best knowledge, most of the existing studies of PAGS mapping are manual, limited to small regions, and do not generalise geographically.

In this paper, we introduce a first-of-its-kind dataset - the Northern Ireland Publicly Accessible Green Spaces (PAGS-NI) dataset. Unlike existing datasets that typically consider only visual remote sensing data, our PAGS-NI dataset combines high-resolution, multi-band remote sensing data, geographical information data and activity data with hand-verified PAGS ground truth. Using this dataset, we develop a semantic segmentation model for automatic and scalable PAGS mapping that fuses these different data sources. Our model is able to predict PAGS on unseen places given appropriate training, which exceeds prior art. Furthermore, we show that our model trained solely on Northern Ireland can generalise to PAGS prediction for areas in the United States. Our model and dataset have the potential to advance large-scale PAGS studies in environmental science and public health research.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2024): proceedings
PublisherBritish Machine Vision Association
Publication statusPublished - 30 Nov 2024
Event35th British Machine Vision Conference 2024 - Glasgow, United Kingdom
Duration: 25 Nov 202428 Nov 2024
https://bmvc2024.org/

Conference

Conference35th British Machine Vision Conference 2024
Abbreviated titleBMVC 2024
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityGlasgow
Period25/11/202428/11/2024
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