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VGBs: A Video-based Semantic Segmentation Dataset for Quantitative Analysis of Green and Blue Spaces in Flanders

Green and blue spaces are vital natural environments that offer physical and mental health benefits. Accurately identifying and quantifying the health-promoting natural elements in these spaces is crucial for advancing nature-based health interventions. Given the growing use of nature videos to simulate and enhance the health-promoting effects of exposure to green and blue spaces, developing reliable methods to analyze these scenes is increasingly important. However, traditional color-based methods have demonstrated limited effectiveness, while pre-trained models struggle to segment green and blue spaces in video data. To address these limitations, this paper introduced a video-based green and blue spaces (VGBs) dataset for semantic segmentation (SS). The dataset comprised 2,333 images from 89 videos, annotated with four labels: vegetation, water, sky, and other. We evaluated the performance of different segmentation models and conducted a comparative analysis between models trained on VGBs and pretrained models. Experimental results indicated that DeepLabV3 trained on VGBs achieved superior segmentation accuracy for vegetation, sky, and other elements with per-class Intersection over Union (IoU) values of 92.51%, 92.12%, 87.41% respectively, while highlighting the need for improvement in water (per-class IoU = 75.14%) segmentation. This dataset provides a foundation for developing and benchmarking advanced algorithms for segmenting green and blue spaces videos. The publicly available deep learning (DL) models trained on VGBs support video-based applications, including real-time landscape analysis, nature exposure assessment, and virtual nature generating.

Autor / Author: Shi, Yangyang; Apolo-Apolo, Orly Enrique; Raes, Filip; Somers, Ben
Institution / Institution: KU Leuven, Leuven/Belgium; KU Leuven, Leuven/Belgium; KU Leuven, Leuven/Belgium; KU Leuven, Leuven/Belgium
Seitenzahl / Pages: 11
Sprache / Language: Englisch
Veröffentlichung / Publication: JoDLA – Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture, 10-2025
Tagung / Conference: Digital Landscape Architecture 2025 – Collaboration
Veranstaltungsort, -datum / Venue, Date: Dessau Campus of Anhalt University, Germany 04-06-25 - 07-06-25
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Keywords (en): Green and blue spaces, nature exposure level, semantic segmentation, deep learning, video dataset
Paper review type: Full Paper Review
DOI: doi:10.14627/537754057
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