Bulletin of Surveying and Mapping ›› 2026, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (3): 57-61.doi: 10.13474/j.cnki.11-2246.2026.0310

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CSG-Net: a method for building footprint extraction from remote sensing images by integrating domain adaptation and the visual foundation model SAM

WANG Ye1, ZHANG Xinchang1, JIANG Ming2, RUAN Yongjian1   

  1. 1. School of Geography and Remote Sensing, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China;
    2. School of Geography and Planing, Sun at-sen University, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China
  • Received:2025-10-09 Published:2026-04-08

Abstract: To address the substantial decline in generalization performance of deep learning models for building footprint extraction across different platforms and spatial resolutions caused by inter-domain distribution inconsistency,this study introduces a cross-scale geometric-refined network (CSG-Net) aimed at enhancing both adaptability and extraction accuracy in unlabeled target domains.The proposed approach establishes a cascaded probabilistic-geometric pseudo-label refinement framework.Firstly,pseudo-label uncertainty is quantified by computing the Jensen-Shannon divergence (JSD) between the dual prediction branches of the model,and a probabilistic weighting scheme is applied to suppress noise in unreliable regions.Subsequently,geometric priors derived from the segmentation results of the segment anything model (SAM) are incorporated to perform explicit geometry-constrained refinement of pseudo-label boundaries based on overlap ratio analysis,thereby generating high-quality training targets.Extensive experiments on challenging cross-scale building extraction tasks demonstrate that CSG-Net achieves an intersection over union (IoU) of 73.05%,markedly surpassing the Baseline (52.49%) and outperforming other state-of-the-art domain adaptation approaches.These findings confirm the effectiveness of the proposed framework in improving cross-domain robustness and extraction accuracy.

Key words: remote sensing imagery, building footprint, semantic segmentation, domain adaptation, segment anything model (SAM)

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