Bulletin of Surveying and Mapping ›› 2026, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (3): 44-50.doi: 10.13474/j.cnki.11-2246.2026.0308

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Building function classification: a multimodal geospatial data fusion approach

YANG Yuting1, HU Ting1, PAN Ziyong1, TONG Xudong1, MA Ailong2   

  1. 1. School of Remote Sensing and Geomatics Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China;
    2. State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
  • Received:2025-08-11 Published:2026-04-08

Abstract: Detailed classification of building function provides scientific support for urban planning and digital city modeling.However,existing researches primarily focus on identifying the geometric attributes of buildings based on high-resolution remote sensing images,paying less attention to their functional attributes,and largely ignoring the increasingly popular mixed-use buildings.To address this,this paper introduces multi-source geospatial data,including building vector geometry data,building vector environmental data,and POI data,to compensate for the limitations of optical,nighttime light,and SAR remote sensing images in depicting building uses.A multi-modal data fusion model,MultiMixNet,is proposed to achieve simultaneous identification of both single and mixed-use buildings.Experimental results in urban areas of Shanghai,Hangzhou,and Xi'an show that the MultiMixNet method achieves an average Micro F1 score of 76.63% and an average Macro F1 score of 71.47% across the three study areas.The identification accuracy for mixed-use buildings generally exceeds 60%.The nighttime light data significantly improving the classification accuracy of commercial buildings by reflecting nighttime activity characteristics,while building vector environmental data provides crucial support for distinguishing between residential and mixed-use commercial-residential buildings.To address the issue of mixed-use buildings being far fewer in number than single-use buildings,this paper designs a building buffer zone extraction module based on the object detection framework to enhance the sample proportion of minority categories,effectively alleviating data imbalance and improving the classification accuracy of mixed-use buildings.

Key words: building function identification, mixed-use buildings, building environmental features, deep learning

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