DET: Data Enhancement Technique for Aerial Images

Deep learning and computer vision are two thriving research areas within machine learning. In recent years, as the available computing power has grown, it has led to the possibility of combining the approaches, achieving state-of-the-art results. An area of research that has greatly benefited from this development is building detection. Although the algorithms produce satisfactory results, there are still many limitations. One significant problem is the quality and edge sharpness of the segmentation masks, which are not up to the standard required by the mapping industry. The predicted mask boundaries need to be sharper and more precise to have practical use in map production. This thesis i…