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However, existing methods show some drawbacks, including incomplete extraction of different sizes of buildings and inaccurate boundary prediction. It is attributed to a deficiency in the global context-aware and inaccurate correlation mining in the spatial context as well as failure to consider the relative positional relationship between pixels and boundaries. Hence, a detection method for earthquake-damaged buildings based on the object contextual representations (OCR) and boundary enhanced loss (BE loss) was proposed. At first, the OCR module was separately embedded into high-level feature extractions of the two networks DeepLabv3+ and UNet in order to enhance the feature representation; in addition, a novel loss function, that is, BE loss, was designed according to the distance between the pixels and boundaries to force the networks to pay more attention to the learning of the boundary pixels. Finally, two improved networks (including OB-DeepLabv3+ and OB-UNet) were established according to the two strategies. To verify the performance of the proposed method, two benchmark datasets (including YSH and HTI) for detecting earthquake-damaged buildings were constructed according to the post-earthquake images in China and Haiti in 2010, respectively. The experimental results show that both the embedment of the OCR module and application of BE loss contribute to significantly increasing the detection accuracy of earthquake-damaged buildings and the two proposed networks are feasible and effective.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13163119","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,8,8]],"date-time":"2021-08-08T21:35:40Z","timestamp":1628458540000},"page":"3119","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Earthquake-Damaged Buildings Detection in Very High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images Based on Object Context and Boundary Enhanced Loss"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1501-4830","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chao","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster, Ministry of Education (KLME), Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China"},{"name":"Hubei Key Laboratory of Intelligent Vision Based Monitoring for Hydroelectric Engineering, China Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, China"},{"name":"China Yichang Key Laboratory of Intelligent Vision Based Monitoring for Hydroelectric Engineering, China Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, China"}]},{"given":"Xing","family":"Qiu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Hubei Key Laboratory of Intelligent Vision Based Monitoring for Hydroelectric Engineering, China Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, China"},{"name":"China Yichang Key Laboratory of Intelligent Vision Based Monitoring for Hydroelectric Engineering, China Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, China"},{"name":"Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Meteorological Observation and Information Processing, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2158-3386","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hai","family":"Huan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster, Ministry of Education (KLME), Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China"},{"name":"Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Meteorological Observation and Information Processing, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9649-4997","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shuai","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Hubei Key Laboratory of Intelligent Vision Based Monitoring for Hydroelectric Engineering, China Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, China"},{"name":"China Yichang Key Laboratory of Intelligent Vision Based Monitoring for Hydroelectric Engineering, China Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, China"},{"name":"Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Meteorological Observation and Information Processing, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7828-2517","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yan","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Hubei Key Laboratory of Intelligent Vision Based Monitoring for Hydroelectric Engineering, China Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, China"},{"name":"China Yichang Key Laboratory of Intelligent Vision Based Monitoring for Hydroelectric Engineering, China Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, China"},{"name":"Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Meteorological Observation and Information Processing, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China"}]},{"given":"Xiaohui","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Hubei Key Laboratory of Intelligent Vision Based Monitoring for Hydroelectric Engineering, China Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, China"},{"name":"China Yichang Key Laboratory of Intelligent Vision Based Monitoring for Hydroelectric Engineering, China Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, China"}]},{"given":"Wei","family":"He","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai 200000, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,8,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"658","article-title":"A method of combined texture features and morphology for building seismic damage information extraction based on GF remote sensing images","volume":"5","author":"Li","year":"2019","journal-title":"Acta Seismol. 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