Remote Sensing Image Segmentation

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Remote sensing image segmentation assigns classes or object boundaries to pixels in satellite and aerial images, supporting tasks such as land-cover mapping, flood and wildfire monitoring, and building or road extraction. Common approaches include U-Net-style convolutional networks, transformers and state-space models, and fusion of optical, SAR, elevation, or time-series data; newer work also adapts geospatial foundation and vision-language models. Benchmarks such as ISPRS Vaihingen and Potsdam, LoveDA, OpenEarthMap, and Sen1Floods11 test accuracy across varied sensors, regions, and applications. A central challenge is reliable transfer under geographic, seasonal, and sensor shifts, while preserving fine boundaries and balancing annotation needs, computational cost, and performance on rare classes.

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  1. PRUE: A Practical Recipe for Field Boundary Segmentation at Scale

    Mar 28, 2026Gedeon Muhawenayo, Caleb Robinson, Subash Khanal +10Image SegmentationRemote Sensing Image Segmentation

    Arizona State University · Microsoft AI for Good · Washington University in St. Louis +3

  2. LEMMA: Laplacian pyramids for Efficient Marine SeMAntic Segmentation

    Mar 26, 2026Ishaan Gakhar, Laven Srivastava, Sankarshanaa Sagaram +2Semantic SegmentationRemote Sensing Image Segmentation

    Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India

  3. DB SwinT: A Dual-Branch Swin Transformer Network for Road Extraction in Optical Remote Sensing Imagery

    Mar 25, 2026Zongyang He, Xiangli Yang, Xian Gao +1Remote Sensing Image Segmentation

    School of Information Science and Engineering, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing 400074, China · College of Information Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Radar Technology and Application, Hohhot 010051, China

  4. IJmond Industrial Smoke Segmentation Dataset

    Mar 24, 2026Yen-Chia Hsu, Despoina TouskaImage SegmentationSemantic Segmentation

    Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

  5. High Resolution Flood Extent Detection Using Deep Learning with Random Forest Derived Training Labels

    Mar 23, 2026Azizbek Nuriddinov, Ebrahim Ahmadisharaf, Mohammad Reza AlizadehFlood Inundation MappingRemote Sensing Image Segmentation

    Department of Civil Engineering, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA · Dept. of Biosystems & Agricultural Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

  6. A Large-Scale Remote Sensing Dataset and VLM-based Algorithm for Fine-Grained Road Hierarchy Classification

    Mar 22, 2026Ting Han, Xiangyi Xie, Yiping Chen +5Remote Sensing VLMsClassification

    School of Geospatial Engineering and Science, Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuhai, 519082, China · Transport Bureau of Nanhai District, Foshan, 528200, China · Laboratory of Intelligent Collaborative Computing, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 611731, China +2

  7. Lean Learning Beyond Clouds: Efficient Discrepancy-Conditioned Optical-SAR Fusion for Semantic Segmentation

    Mar 21, 2026Chenxing Meng, Wuzhou Quan, Yingjie Cai +3Efficient Semantic SegmentationCloud Removal

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China

  8. SegFly: A Dataset and 2D-3D-2D Paradigm for Aerial RGB-Thermal Semantic Segmentation at Scale

    Mar 18, 2026Markus Gross, Sai Bharadhwaj Matha, Rui Song +4Remote Sensing Image SegmentationCross-Modal Image Registration

    Fraunhofer Institute IVI · TU Munich · MCML +2

  9. Parameter-Efficient Modality-Balanced Symmetric Fusion for Multimodal Remote Sensing Semantic Segmentation

    Mar 18, 2026Haocheng Li, Juepeng Zheng, Shuangxi Miao +4Remote Sensing Image SegmentationMultimodal Fusion

    the College of Land Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, and also with the Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing for Agri-Hazards, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Beijing 100083, China · the School of Artificial Intelligence, Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuhai, China · Henan Polytechnic University, and also with the Key Laboratory of Spatio-Temporal Information and Ecological Restoration of Mines, Ministry of Natural Resources of the People’s Republic of China, Jiaozuo 454003, China +4

  10. MM-OVSeg:Multimodal Optical-SAR Fusion for Open-Vocabulary Segmentation in Remote Sensing

    Mar 18, 2026Yimin Wei, Aoran Xiao, Hongruixuan Chen +2Remote Sensing Image SegmentationOpen-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

    The University of Tokyo · RIKEN AIP

  11. A Tutorial on ALOS2 SAR Utilization: Dataset Preparation, Self-Supervised Pretraining, and Semantic Segmentation

    Mar 16, 2026Nevrez Imamoglu, Ali Caglayan, Toru KouyamaSelf-Supervised Pre-TrainingMasked Autoencoders

    National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

  12. DualSwinFusionSeg: Multimodal Martian Landslide Segmentation via Dual Swin Transformer with Multi-Scale Fusion and UNet++

    Mar 14, 2026Shahriar Kabir, Abdullah Muhammed Amimul Ehsan, Istiak Ahmmed Rifti +1Multimodal Semantic SegmentationImage Segmentation

    Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh · University of California, Riverside, USA

  13. Analytical Logit Scaling for High-Resolution Sea Ice Topology Retrieval from Weakly Labeled SAR Imagery

    Mar 13, 2026Reda Elwaradi, Julien Gimenez, Stéphane Hordoir +3Remote Sensing Image SegmentationWeakly Supervised Image Segmentation

    Mastère Spécialisé IA Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris Palaiseau, France · DTIS ONERA, Université Paris-Saclay 91120, Palaiseau, France

  14. CrossEarth-SAR: A SAR-Centric and Billion-Scale Geospatial Foundation Model for Domain Generalizable Semantic Segmentation

    Mar 12, 2026Ziqi Ye, Ziyang Gong, Ning Liao +10Domain Generalization for Semantic SegmentationRemote Sensing Image Segmentation

    Fudan University · Shanghai Innovation Institute · Shanghai Jiao Tong University +7

  15. OilSAM2: Memory-Augmented SAM2 for Scalable SAR Oil Spill Detection

    Mar 10, 2026Shuaiyu Chen, Ming Yin, Peng Ren +2Synthetic Aperture RadarRemote Sensing Image Segmentation

    Multimodal Intelligence Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Exeter, United Kingdom · College of Oceanography and Space Informatics, China University of Petroleum (East China), China. · Department of Computer Science, University of Exeter, United Kingdom

  16. BuildMamba: A Visual State-Space Based Model for Multi-Task Building Segmentation and Height Estimation from Satellite Images

    Mar 9, 2026Sinan U. Ulu, A. Enes Doruk, I. Can Yagmur +3Remote Sensing Image SegmentationSemantic Segmentation

    Graduate School of Engineering, Ozyegin university, 34794 Istanbul, Türkiye. · Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 USA. · School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Istanbul Medipol University, 34810 Istanbul, Türkiye. +1

  17. FedEU: Evidential Uncertainty-Driven Federated Fine-Tuning of Vision Foundation Models for Remote Sensing Image Segmentation

    Mar 8, 2026Xiaokang Zhang, Xuran Xiong, Jianzhong Huang +1Federated Fine-TuningRemote Sensing Image Segmentation

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China · School of Information Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, China · School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China

  18. Local Precise Refinement: A Dual-Gated Mixture-of-Experts for Enhancing Foundation Model Generalization against Spectral Shifts

    Mar 8, 2026Xi Chen, Maojun Zhang, Yu Liu +1Domain Generalization for Semantic SegmentationRemote Sensing Image Segmentation

    National University of Defense Technology

  19. GeoSeg: Training-Free Reasoning-Driven Segmentation in Remote Sensing Imagery

    Mar 4, 2026Lifan Jiang, Yuhang Pei, oxi Wu +5Remote Sensing Image SegmentationReasoning Segmentation

    State Key lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University · UniTTEC Co. Ltd. · Wuchan Zhongda Chengtou (Ningbo) Holdings. Ltd.

  20. TinyIceNet: Low-Power SAR Sea Ice Segmentation for On-Board FPGA Inference

    Mar 3, 2026Mhd Rashed Al Koutayni, Mohamed Selim, Gerd Reis +2Remote Sensing Image SegmentationFPGA-Based Neural Network Acceleration

    German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, DFKI, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany

  21. SGMA: Semantic-Guided Modality-Aware Segmentation for Remote Sensing with Incomplete Multimodal Data

    Mar 3, 2026Lekang Wen, Liang Liao, Jing Xiao +1Multimodal Semantic SegmentationRemote Sensing Image Segmentation

    State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University · Hangzhou Institute of Technology, Xidian University · School of Artificial Intelligence, Wuhan University

  22. BAWSeg: A UAV Multispectral Benchmark for Barley Weed Segmentation

    Mar 2, 2026Haitian Wang, Xinyu Wang, Muhammad Ibrahim +2Remote Sensing Image SegmentationAgricultural Remote Sensing

    Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia · Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD), Government of Western Australia, 1 Nash St., Perth, WA 6000, Australia

  23. Cryo-Bench: Benchmarking Foundation Models for Cryosphere Mapping

    Mar 2, 2026Saurabh Kaushik, Lalit Maurya, Beth Tellman +4Remote Sensing Image SegmentationGeospatial Foundation Models

    University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, USA · School of Computing and Mathematics, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, M1 5GD, UK · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Tezpur University, Assam 784028, India +3

  24. Data-Centric Benchmark for Label Noise Estimation and Ranking in Remote Sensing Binary Building Segmentation

    Feb 28, 2026Keiller Nogueira, Codrut-Andrei Diaconu, Dávid Kerekes +9Learning with Noisy LabelsNoisy-Label Learning

    School of Computer Science and Informatics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZX, UK · German Aerospace Center (DLR), Remote Sensing Technology Institute, Wessling, 82234, Germany · Division of Geoinformatics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 114 28, Sweden +4

  25. Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation in Remote Sensing via Hierarchical Attention Masking and Model Composition

    Feb 27, 2026Mohammadreza Heidarianbaei, Mareike Dorozynski, Hubert Kanyamahanga +2Open-Vocabulary Semantic SegmentationRemote Sensing Image Segmentation

    Institute of Photogrammetry and GeoInformation Leibniz University Hannover Germany

  26. Vision-Language Semantic Grounding for Multi-Domain Crop-Weed Segmentation

    Feb 27, 2026Nazia Hossain, Xintong Jiang, Yu Tian +3Domain Generalization for Semantic SegmentationSemantic Segmentation

    Department of Bioresource Engineering, McGill University, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada · Department of Plant Science, McGill University, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada

  27. TIRAuxCloud: A Thermal Infrared Dataset for Day and Night Cloud Detection

    Feb 25, 2026Alexis Apostolakis, Vasileios Botsos, Niklas Wölki +4Remote Sensing Image SegmentationRemote Sensing Benchmarks

    National Technical University of Athens, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering · National Observatory of Athens · School of Rural, Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering, National Technical University of Athens +1

  28. Assessing airborne laser scanning and aerial photogrammetry for deep learning-based stand delineation

    Feb 25, 2026Håkon Næss Sandum, Hans Ole Ørka, Oliver Tomic +1Remote SensingRemote Sensing Image Segmentation

    Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, NMBU, P.O. Box 5003, NO-1432 Ås, Norway. · Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, NMBU, P.O. Box 5003, NO-1432 Ås, Norway.

  29. Enabling Training-Free Text-Based Remote Sensing Segmentation

    Feb 19, 2026Jose Sosa, Danila Rukhovich, Anis Kacem +1Text-Guided Image SegmentationRemote Sensing Image Segmentation

    SnT, University of Luxembourg

  30. Multi-encoder ConvNeXt Network with Smooth Attentional Feature Fusion for Multispectral Semantic Segmentation

    Feb 8, 2026Leo Thomas Ramos, Angel D. SappaSemantic SegmentationRemote Sensing Image Segmentation

    Computer Vision Center, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, 08193, Spain · ESPOL Polytechnic University, Guayaquil, 090112, Ecuador