Topologically Consistent Agricultural Parcel Vectorization with Semantic-Guided Diffusion and Topology-Aware Polygonization
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Abstract (arXiv)
Agricultural parcel polygons play a fundamental role in geospatial applications such as precision agriculture, land administration, and crop monitoring. Beyond regular polygon geometry and low vertex redundancy, practical parcel maps should avoid topological conflicts and preserve common boundaries between adjacent fields. Yet this requirement remains largely unresolved: segmentation-based methods mainly produce parcel masks or raster boundary cues and rely on heuristic raster-to-vector conversion, instance- and contour-based methods reconstruct parcels independently, and recent vector-oriented methods improve polygon regularity but do not explicitly recover adjacent parcels from a shared topological structure. To address this gap, we propose a semantic-guided diffusion framework for topologically consistent agricultural parcel vectorization. It couples joint edge--vertex latent diffusion with supervised multi-cue conditioning to generate geometrically regularised parcel-boundary and vertex primitives while suppressing false-positive responses. A topology-aware parcel polygon reconstruction method then converts these primitives into regular polygons by reconstructing parcel faces from a common planar graph, enabling adjacent predicted parcels to reuse shared boundaries and avoid mutual interior intrusion. Extensive experiments on the AI4SmallFarms and iFLYTEK datasets evaluate parcel vectorization in terms of pixel-level coverage, geometric fidelity, object-level correctness, and topological consistency. The results show strong and competitive performance, with zero measured intrusion ratio and the highest shared-edge recall, demonstrating the potential of the proposed framework for accurate, regular, and topologically consistent agricultural parcel vectorization.
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