Frequency-Guided Denoising Network for Semantic Segmentation of Remote Sensing Images
Xin Li, Feng Xu, Jue Zhang, Hongsheng Zhang, Xin Lyu, Fan Liu, Hongmin Gao, André Kaup
Abstract
Semantic segmentation of high-resolution remote sensing images remains challenging due to the degradation of high-frequency semantic cues during convolutional encoding and the lack of frequency consistency in multi-stage feature fusion. To address these issues, we propose FreDNet, a frequency-guided denoising network that explicitly enhances frequency-sensitive representations throughout the segmentation process. Specifically, we introduce the Dual-path Residual Block (DRB), which incorporates a Frequency-aware Denoising Module (FDM) and a Frequency-aware Fusion Module (FFM) to suppress frequency-domain noise while preserving edge structures. Furthermore, we design a Frequency-aware Cross-level Fusion Module (FCFM) that leverages frequency intensity response maps to adaptively fuse encoder and decoder features. These components work collaboratively to enhance the frequency robustness and spatial consistency of the segmentation predictions. Extensive experiments on three challenging benchmarks, ISPRS Vaihingen, ISPRS Potsdam, and LoveDA, demonstrate that FreDNet achieves superior performance, surpassing the latest state-of-the-art approaches by up to 0.8% in mean IoU and 0.9% in overall accuracy, while maintaining a lightweight inference cost. In addition, ablation study confirms the contribution of each component of FreDNet.