Land Cover Classification With Superpixels and Jaccard Index Post-Optimization

Alex Davydow, Sergey I. Nikolenko

Abstract: In this work, we consider the land cover classification task of the DeepGlobe Challenge. This task features the largest available labeled dataset for satellite imagery segmentation. We propose an approach to this problem where standard neural network image classification models are augmented by superpixel extraction and postprocessing that aims to directly optimize the average Jaccard index.