Preprint
Realistic River Image Synthesis using Deep Generative Adversarial Networks
eartharxiv.org
03/02/2020
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate an application of image generation for river satellite imagery. Specifically, we propose a generative adversarial network (GAN) model capable of generating high-resolution and realistic river images that can be used to support models in surface water estimation, river meandering, wetland loss and other hydrological research studies. First, we summarized an augmented, diverse repository of overhead river images to be used in training. Second, we incorporate the Progressive Growing GAN (PGGAN), a network architecture that iteratively trains smaller-resolution GANs to gradually build up to a very high resolution, to generate 256x256 river satellite imagery. With conventional GAN architectures, difficulties soon arise in terms of exponential increase of training time and vanishing/exploding gradient issues, which the PGGAN implementation seems to significantly reduce. Our preliminary results show great promise in capturing the detail of river flow and green areas present in river satellite images that can be used for supporting hydroinformatics studies.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Realistic River Image Synthesis using Deep Generative Adversarial Networks
- Creators
- Akshat GautamMuhammed SitIbrahim Demir
- Resource Type
- Preprint
- Publication Details
- eartharxiv.org
- Language
- English
- Date posted
- 03/02/2020
- Academic Unit
- Electrical and Computer Engineering; Civil and Environmental Engineering; IIHR--Hydroscience and Engineering; Injury Prevention Research Center
- Record Identifier
- 9984202145202771
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