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April 4, 2026PLoS ONE0 citationsOpen Access

RTAS-Net: A ResNet-transformer-ASPP semantic segmentation network for remote sensing images

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ZWZiheng WangYLYang LiKMKejia Ma

Key Points

  • The aim is to improve semantic segmentation of remote sensing images by addressing scale variation and class-wise distribution challenges.
  • Developed RTAS-Net using U-Net architecture for semantic segmentation.
  • Incorporated ASPP for multi-scale contextual information aggregation.
  • Used Swin Transformer for modeling cross-region dependencies.
  • Integrated mini-ASPP for neighborhood information reinforcement and MobileViT for fine-grained representation.
  • Consistently improved metrics including mIoU, mF1, and overall accuracy on various datasets.
  • Demonstrated enhanced recognition of small objects and boundary delineation.

Abstract

Semantic segmentation of remote sensing images faces pronounced scale variation and complex class-wise spatial distributions, which often lead to semantic discontinuity in large regions and the loss of fine details for small objects. To address these issues, this paper proposes a U-Net–based remote sensing semantic segmentation network termed RTAS-Net (ResNet–Transformer–ASPP Segmentation Network), which enhances feature representation through a collaborative design of multi-scale context aggregation, fine-scale reinforcement, and local-to-global modeling. At the high-semantic level, the network incorporates ASPP to aggregate multi-scale contextual information and enlarge the effective receptive field, while integrating the window-based self-attention mechanism of Swin Transformer to model cross-region dependencies, thereby improving semantic consistency over large-scale areas. At high-resolution skip connections, a lightweight mini-ASPP is embedded to reinforce and pre-fuse fine-scale neighborhood information, and MobileViT is introduced to strengthen local texture and fine-grained structural representations, thus enhancing the recognition and boundary delineation of small objects. Rather than a simple stacking of modules, RTAS-Net achieves unified modeling of global semantics and local details through coordinated cross-level pathways. Experimental results on the ISPRS Potsdam, Vaihingen and LoveDA datasets demonstrate that the proposed method achieves consistent improvements in mIoU, mF1, and OA, and further provides a comprehensive analysis of parameter scale and inference efficiency, validating its effectiveness and practical applicability.

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Wang et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d0aff2659487ece0fa6150https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0343729
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