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AnyRoad: A Frequency-Aware Adapter Framework for Road Segmentation with Segment Anything Model

  • Lilun Deng
  • , Jiangshe Zhang
  • , Haowen Bai
  • , Yukun Cui
  • , Shuang Xu
  • , Chunxia Zhang
  • , Long Wu
  • , Yan Wang
  • , Zixiang Zhao
  • School of Mathematics and Statistics
  • Nanyang Technological University
  • China National Petroleum Corporation
  • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

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Abstract

Automated road extraction from high-resolution satellite imagery is critical for geospatial applications. However, accurate segmentation requires balancing global topological continuity with local boundary precision. Existing methods often struggle with this trade-off, while directly adapting large-scale foundation models introduces challenges with geometric discontinuities and computational cost. We propose AnyRoad, an asymmetric dual-encoder framework integrating a trainable SegFormer for domain semantics and a frozen SAM-2 for universal structural priors. To fuse these distinct representations, we introduce a Frequency-domain Collaborative Fusion Module (FCFM). Using the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT), FCFM decouples features: low-frequency components are aligned via bidirectional cross-attention to preserve macro-level connectivity, while high-frequency details are processed with a WaveMLP-based anisotropic operator to refine geometric boundaries. A Deformable UNet++ decoder is then employed to accommodate diverse road shapes. Experiments on the Massachusetts Roads and DeepGlobe datasets show that AnyRoad performs well. Cross-regional tests on the LSRV dataset also show stable transfer to unseen geographic areas.

Keywords

  • foundation models
  • remote sensing imagery
  • road extraction
  • semantic segmentation

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