PPMamba: Enhancing Semantic Segmentation in Remote Sensing Imagery by SS2D

Abstract

Remote sensing semantic segmentation is a critical technology in the field of remote sensing image processing, with broad applications in environmental monitoring, urban planning, disaster assessment, and resource exploration. Despite the transformative impact of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on this domain, CNN-based methods often encounter limitations due to their localized receptive fields, which struggle to capture the global context necessary for accurate segmentation in complex remote sensing imagery. In this letter, a novel approach is presented for remote sensing semantic segmentation using a mamba-based model named PPmamba. The PPmamba model integrates Resblock and PPmamba within an encoder-decoder framework to effectively capture both local and global contextual information from high-resolution remote sensing images. Leveraging the strengths of the Mamba architecture, our model employs selective scanning to efficiently process long sequences, overcoming the limitations of traditional CNNs and transformers in handling large-scale images with complex scenes. Extensive experiments on two benchmark datasets (Potsdam and Vaihingen) demonstrate the superiority of our PPmamba model against state-of-the-art models, achieving significant improvements in segmentation results. The codes will be available at https://github.com/Jerrymo59/PPMambaSeg .