2025-09-23
R-SWTNet: A Context-Aware U-Net-Based Framework for Segmenting Rural Roads and Alleys in China with the SQVillages Dataset
2025-09-23 • Jianing Wu, Junqi Yang, Xiaoyu Xu, Ying Zeng, Yan Cheng, Xiaodong Liu, Hong Zhang
Rural road networks are vital for rural development, yet narrow alleys and occluded segments remain underrepresented in digital maps due to irregular morphology, spectral ambiguity, and limited model generalization. Traditional segmentation models struggle to balance local detail preservation and long-range dependency modeling, prioritizing either local features or global context alone. Hypothesizing that integrating hierarchical local features and global context will mitigate these limitations, this study aims to…