Mapping with fAIr

Validation accuracy after training in building footprints segmentation for OpenStreetMap

Anna Zanchetta, Omran Najjar, Kshitij Sharma

The Alan Turing Institute

HOT Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

2024-06-25

Introduction

HOT

fAIr








https://fair-dev.hotosm.org/

ML engine










https://rampml.global/

ML engine










2020 paper by Baheti et al.

Reason for research




How accurate is fAIr in detecting buildings

in different conditions?

Methods

Data

RGB from OAM








Open Aerial Map

Labels from OSM








Preprocessing through fAIr website

Dataset

Urban regions 25
Countries 21
Zoom levels 19, 20, 21
N. images 8400
(~350 per region)
Images size 256x256
Resolution cm

Locations

Categories

Rural

Desa Kulaba

Peri-urban

Ggaba

Urban

Bogota

Refugee camp

Kakuma

Categories

Shingles

Silvania

Metal

Ngaoundere

Cement

Melbourne

Mixed

Kutupalong

Categories

Dense

Montevideo dense

Sparse

Gornja Rijeka

Grid

Quincy

Training

Urban regions all (25)
N. of epochs 20
Batch sizes 4
(2, 4, 8, 16)
Accuracy metrics 5
Categorical accuracy, Precision,
Recall, F1 Score, IoU

Results

Urbanity

Roof type

Density

Batch size

Conclusions

Conclusions



4.8%

4.2%

Conclusions



4.8%

7.7%

ooo

ooo

IoU

4.2%

7.8%

Banyuwangi

Pallaby Dhaka

Future



Models

Features

THANK YOU



GitHub repo https://github.com/ciupava/fAIr-utilities
fAIr website https://fair-dev.hotosm.org/
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