Building Detection using Two-Layered Novel Convolutional Neural Networks

In the recent years, there has been a high surge in the use of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) because of the state-of-the art performance in a number of areas like text, audio and video processing. The field of remote sensing applications is however a field that has not fully incorporated the use of CNN. To address this issue, we introduced a novel CNN that can be used to increase the performance of detectors built that use Local Binary Patterns (LBP) and Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG). Moreover, in this paper, we have also increased the accuracy of the CNN using two improvements. The first improvement involves feature vector transformation with Euler methodology and combining normalized and raw features. Based on the results observed, we have also performed a comparative study using similar methods and it has been identified that the proposed CNN proves to be an improvement over the others.