Mohamed El Mehdi Imam

Work place: Research Laboratory on Intelligent Systems (LARESI), Electronics Department, University of Science and Technology of Oran Mohamed-Boudiaf USTOMB, El Mnaouar, BP 1505, Bir El Dir 31000, Oran, Algeria

E-mail: mohamedelmehdi.imam@univ-usto.dz

Website: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-9367-3331

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Biography

Mohamed El Mehdi Imam is a Ph.D. student in Telecommunications and Information Processing at the Research Laboratory on Intelligent Systems (LARESI), Electronics Department, University of Science and Technology of Oran Mohamed-Boudiaf (USTO-MB), Oran, Algeria. He is actively involved in several research projects focusing on machine learning and deep learning techniques, with particular emphasis on remote sensing applications. His research interests include pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, deep learning, remote sensing, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). His current work mainly addresses road network extraction from satellite imagery and the integration of deep learning models into GIS-based infrastructure management systems. He has published his research in IEEE conference proceedings.

Author Articles
Multi-Scale and Auxiliary-Supervised Architectures for Accurate Road Network Mapping

By Mohamed El Mehdi Imam Lila Meddeber Tarik Zouagui

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2026.01.04, Pub. Date: 8 Feb. 2026

Automated road network extraction from satellite imagery represents a critical advancement for Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications in infrastructure management and urban planning. This paper introduces two novel deep learning architectures based on LinkNet: RoadNet-MS (Multi-Scale) and RoadNet-AUX (Multi-Scale with Auxiliary Supervision), specifically designed to enhance road segmentation performance. RoadNet-MS incorporates Multi-Scale Contextual Blocks (CMS-Blocks) and hybrid blocks to effectively capture diverse contextual features at multiple scales, achieving F1-scores of 78.87% on the challenging DeepGlobe dataset and 82.30% on the Boston & Los Angeles dataset. RoadNet-AUX extends this architecture through auxiliary supervision, further improving performance with F1-scores of 79.14% on DeepGlobe and 82.33% on Boston-LA. Both proposed architectures demonstrate competitive performance and consistent improvements over existing methods, including the state-of-the-art NL-LinkNet, across both evaluation datasets. Notably, RoadNet-MS achieves the highest precision (83.55%) among all compared methods on DeepGlobe. These contributions provide a pathway toward more accurate and scalable road network mapping, essential for modern urban planning and infrastructure monitoring applications.

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