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Performance Evaluation of Three Deep Learning Models for River ICE Segmentation From Aerial Images

2025· article· en· W4413321517 on OpenAlexafffundabout
Nima Ahmadian, M. Hamilton

Bibliographic record

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Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicHydrological Forecasting Using AI
Canadian institutionsMemorial University of Newfoundland
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsSegmentationArtificial intelligenceComputer scienceAerial imageryImage segmentationDeep learningComputer visionAerial imageRemote sensingGeologyImage (mathematics)

Abstract

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River ice monitoring is of great importance due to its impact on various environmental issues. In this study, the performance of three deep learning models, U-Net, MA-FCN, and SegNet, in segmenting UAV images of river ice was compared using the Alberta river ice dataset. The models were evaluated using mean Intersection over Union (mIoU) and Pixel Accuracy (PA). Results showed U-Net achieved the best results with an mIoU of 65.5% and a PA of 88.45%, outperforming MA-FCN and SegNet. U-Net's lightweight design and skip connections preserved spatial information, making it more effective with limited training data. MA-FCN performed slightly weaker than U-Net and SegNet models due to it having more parameters, and SegNet's lack of skip connections led to smoother edges in the final segmentation map.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.054
Threshold uncertainty score0.108

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.050
GPT teacher head0.283
Teacher spread0.233 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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