BiEHFFNet: A Water Body Detection Network for SAR Images Based on Bi-Encoder and Hybrid Feature Fusion

Bin Han, Xin Huang and Feng Xue ()
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Bin Han: School of Communications and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China
Xin Huang: School of Communications and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China
Feng Xue: School of Communications and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China

Mathematics, 2025, vol. 13, issue 15, 1-22

Abstract: Water body detection in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery plays a critical role in applications such as disaster response, water resource management, and environmental monitoring. However, it remains challenging due to complex background interference in SAR images. To address this issue, a bi-encoder and hybrid feature fuse network (BiEHFFNet) is proposed for achieving accurate water body detection. First, a bi-encoder structure based on ResNet and Swin Transformer is used to jointly extract local spatial details and global contextual information, enhancing feature representation in complex scenarios. Additionally, the convolutional block attention module (CBAM) is employed to suppress irrelevant information of the output features of each ResNet stage. Second, a cross-attention-based hybrid feature fusion (CABHFF) module is designed to interactively integrate local and global features through cross-attention, followed by channel attention to achieve effective hybrid feature fusion, thus improving the model’s ability to capture water structures. Third, a multi-scale content-aware upsampling (MSCAU) module is designed by integrating atrous spatial pyramid pooling (ASPP) with the Content-Aware ReAssembly of FEatures (CARAFE), aiming to enhance multi-scale contextual learning while alleviating feature distortion caused by upsampling. Finally, a composite loss function combining Dice loss and Active Contour loss is used to provide stronger boundary supervision. Experiments conducted on the ALOS PALSAR dataset demonstrate that the proposed BiEHFFNet outperforms existing methods across multiple evaluation metrics, achieving more accurate water body detection.

Keywords: water body detection; SAR; bi-encoder; CABHFF; MSCAU (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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