Train and Evaluation Code, Road Classification Models and Test set of the paper "Impact of Image Resolution and Image Overlap on the Prediction Performance of Convolutional Neural Networks Trained for Road Classification"

This repository contains the Python scripts built for training and evaluation of the implementation, together with the test data and the resulting road classification models corresponding to the paper "Impact of Image Resolution and Image Overlap on the Prediction Performance of Convolutional Neural Networks Trained for Road Classification". The scripts make use of the Tensorflow with Keras framework and the additional required dependencies.

The training and validation set is based on the binary SROADEX dataset (https://zenodo.org/records/6482346) that was re-split into tiles that feature the image resolutions (256 x 256, 512 x 512, and 1024 x 1024 pixels) and image overlaps (0% and 12.5%) considered in this study. The data have been generated using scripts developed in Python using Open Source libraries (GDAL/OGR and MapScript) for rasterization of vector cartography that represents the axes of the different types of roads (urban, interurban and rural). This binary road data contains information from 16 full orthoimages (28.5 km * 18.5 km) with spatial resolution of 0.5 m/pixel from the insular and peninsular Spanish territory. Due to the size on disk of approximately 546 gigabytes, this training and validation data is only available upon request from the corresponding author. The test set has been generated from a novel area of 28.5 km * 18.5 km and features binary road labels. The test sets are provided in the repository for each resolution (with no overlap), so that additional DL models can be evaluated on the same data and compared with the results achieved in this study.

The structure of the information shared in this repository is as follows:
The scripts have been grouped by tile resolution (256, 512 and 1024). First, the test set and the evaluation script can be found. For each tile resolution, there are two subfolders (corresponding to the "no overlap" and "12.5% overlap"). In each case, the Python scripts for training the models in the three repetitions are shared, and the trained models (H5 format) are shared in compressed form. Finally, for each resolution we also share the testing dataset which consists of two folders.

The material is distributed under a CC-BY 4.0 license.