Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica ›› 2024, Vol. 53 ›› Issue (10): 2007-2020.doi: 10.11947/j.AGCS.2024.20230245.

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A generative neural network method for road simplification

Piao LUO1,2,3,(), Junkui XU1,2,3(), Fang WU4, Yakun LÜ1,2,3, Qingwen ZHUANG1,2,3   

  1. 1.College of Geography and Environmental Science, Henan University, Kaifeng 475001, China
    2.Henan Industrial Technology Academy of Spatio-Temporal Big Data, Henan University, Kaifeng 475001, China
    3.Key Laboratory of Geospatial Technology for the Middle and Lower Yellow River Regions (Henan University), Ministry of Education, Kaifeng 475001, China
    4.Institute of Geographical Spatial Information, Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
  • Received:2023-07-07 Published:2024-11-26
  • Contact: Junkui XU E-mail:104754200200@henu.edu.cn;10130153@vip.henu.edu.cn
  • About author:LUO Piao (1996—), male, postgraduate, majors in intelligent map generalization and spatial cognition. E-mail: 104754200200@henu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China(U21A2014)

Abstract:

Road data is an important part of geospatial data due to its large quantity and high frequency of change. Road feature simplification is also one of the core technical steps of cartographic generalization and spatial data updating.Traditional methods based on data point compression, bend recognition and existing machine learning algorithms have problems of poor stability, weak controllability and low degree of automation in road simplification. Based on the theory of combining visual thinking and syntactic pattern. This paper uses the feature mining ability of deep learning algorithm to introduce generative artificial neural network model into the field of road simplification.Firstly, the road data to be simplified is transformed into sequence data, and the sequence features are extracted to construct the feature data set. Secondly, the Seq2Seq coding model constructed by the gated recurrent unit (GRU) neural network is used to embed large-scale road data to form high-dimensional semantic coding. The simplified small-scale road data is generated by decoding the semantic coding. Finally, the effectiveness and applicability of the model were evaluated according to four indexes: compression rate of arc segment, change rate of length, bend of curve and buffer limit difference.The experimental results show that the proposed model can be applied to road shape simplification, enrich road simplification methods, and promote the comprehensive and intelligent development of map drawing.

Key words: generative neural network, road simplification, deep learning, syntactic pattern recognition natural language processing, Seq2Seq coding model, cartographic generalization

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