DCP-Net: A Distributed Collaborative Perception Network for Remote
  Sensing Semantic Segmentation
Zhechao Wang Peirui Cheng Shujing Duan Kaiqiang Chen Zhirui Wang Xinming Li Xian Sun
Onboard intelligent processing is widely applied in emergency tasks in the
field of remote sensing. However, it is predominantly confined to an individual
platform with a limited observation range as well as susceptibility to
interference, resulting in limited accuracy. Considering the current state of
multi-platform collaborative observation, this article innovatively presents a
distributed collaborative perception network called DCP-Net. Firstly, the
proposed DCP-Net helps members to enhance perception performance by integrating
features from other platforms. Secondly, a self-mutual information match module
is proposed to identify collaboration opportunities and select suitable
partners, prioritizing critical collaborative features and reducing redundant
transmission cost. Thirdly, a related feature fusion module is designed to
address the misalignment between local and collaborative features, improving
the quality of fused features for the downstream task. We conduct extensive
experiments and visualization analyses using three semantic segmentation
datasets, including Potsdam, iSAID and DFC23. The results demonstrate that
DCP-Net outperforms the existing methods comprehensively, improving mIoU by
2.61%~16.89% at the highest collaboration efficiency, which promotes the
performance to a state-of-the-art level.