scholarly journals Self-Supervised Representation Learning for Remote Sensing Image Change Detection Based on Temporal Prediction

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 1868 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huihui Dong ◽  
Wenping Ma ◽  
Yue Wu ◽  
Jun Zhang ◽  
Licheng Jiao
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Change Detection ◽  
Satellite Images ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Representation Learning ◽  
Remote Sensing Image ◽  
Generative Adversarial Networks ◽  
Image Domain ◽  
Temporal Prediction ◽  
Feature Representations

Traditional change detection (CD) methods operate in the simple image domain or hand-crafted features, which has less robustness to the inconsistencies (e.g., brightness and noise distribution, etc.) between bitemporal satellite images. Recently, deep learning techniques have reported compelling performance on robust feature learning. However, generating accurate semantic supervision that reveals real change information in satellite images still remains challenging, especially for manual annotation. To solve this problem, we propose a novel self-supervised representation learning method based on temporal prediction for remote sensing image CD. The main idea of our algorithm is to transform two satellite images into more consistent feature representations through a self-supervised mechanism without semantic supervision and any additional computations. Based on the transformed feature representations, a better difference image (DI) can be obtained, which reduces the propagated error of DI on the final detection result. In the self-supervised mechanism, the network is asked to identify different sample patches between two temporal images, namely, temporal prediction. By designing the network for the temporal prediction task to imitate the discriminator of generative adversarial networks, the distribution-aware feature representations are automatically captured and the result with powerful robustness can be acquired. Experimental results on real remote sensing data sets show the effectiveness and superiority of our method, improving the detection precision up to 0.94–35.49%.

scholarly journals Remote Sensing Image Dataset Expansion Based on Generative Adversarial Networks with Modified Shuffle Attention

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (14) ◽  
pp. 4867
Author(s):  
Lu Chen ◽  
Hongjun Wang ◽  
Xianghao Meng
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Image Processing ◽  
Remote Sensing Image ◽  
Generative Adversarial Networks ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Evaluation Indexes ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Remote Sensing Image Processing ◽  
Data Expansion

With the development of science and technology, neural networks, as an effective tool in image processing, play an important role in gradual remote-sensing image-processing. However, the training of neural networks requires a large sample database. Therefore, expanding datasets with limited samples has gradually become a research hotspot. The emergence of the generative adversarial network (GAN) provides new ideas for data expansion. Traditional GANs either require a large number of input data, or lack detail in the pictures generated. In this paper, we modify a shuffle attention network and introduce it into GAN to generate higher quality pictures with limited inputs. In addition, we improved the existing resize method and proposed an equal stretch resize method to solve the problem of image distortion caused by different input sizes. In the experiment, we also embed the newly proposed coordinate attention (CA) module into the backbone network as a control test. Qualitative indexes and six quantitative evaluation indexes were used to evaluate the experimental results, which show that, compared with other GANs used for picture generation, the modified Shuffle Attention GAN proposed in this paper can generate more refined and high-quality diversified aircraft pictures with more detailed features of the object under limited datasets.

scholarly journals Change Detection Method of High Resolution Remote Sensing Image Based on D-S Evidence Theory Feature Fusion

IEEE Access ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 4673-4687
Author(s):  
Jixiang Zhao ◽  
Shanwei Liu ◽  
Jianhua Wan ◽  
Muhammad Yasir ◽  
Huayu Li
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Change Detection ◽  
Detection Method ◽  
Feature Fusion ◽  
Evidence Theory ◽  
Remote Sensing Image

Improved Training for Machine Learning: The Additional Potential of Innovative Algorithmic Approaches.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Octavian Dumitru ◽  
Gottfried Schwarz ◽  
Mihai Datcu ◽  
Dongyang Ao ◽  
Zhongling Huang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Test Data ◽  
Satellite Images ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Data Selection ◽  
Generative Adversarial Networks ◽  
Radar Images ◽  
Basic Work ◽  
Selection Of

<p>During the last years, much progress has been reached with machine learning algorithms. Among the typical application fields of machine learning are many technical and commercial applications as well as Earth science analyses, where most often indirect and distorted detector data have to be converted to well-calibrated scientific data that are a prerequisite for a correct understanding of the desired physical quantities and their relationships.</p><p>However, the provision of sufficient calibrated data is not enough for the testing, training, and routine processing of most machine learning applications. In principle, one also needs a clear strategy for the selection of necessary and useful training data and an easily understandable quality control of the finally desired parameters.</p><p>At a first glance, one could guess that this problem could be solved by a careful selection of representative test data covering many typical cases as well as some counterexamples. Then these test data can be used for the training of the internal parameters of a machine learning application. At a second glance, however, many researchers found out that a simple stacking up of plain examples is not the best choice for many scientific applications.</p><p>To get improved machine learning results, we concentrated on the analysis of satellite images depicting the Earth’s surface under various conditions such as the selected instrument type, spectral bands, and spatial resolution. In our case, such data are routinely provided by the freely accessible European Sentinel satellite products (e.g., Sentinel-1, and Sentinel-2). Our basic work then included investigations of how some additional processing steps – to be linked with the selected training data – can provide better machine learning results.</p><p>To this end, we analysed and compared three different approaches to find out machine learning strategies for the joint selection and processing of training data for our Earth observation images:</p><ul><li>One can optimize the training data selection by adapting the data selection to the specific instrument, target, and application characteristics [1].</li> <li>As an alternative, one can dynamically generate new training parameters by Generative Adversarial Networks. This is comparable to the role of a sparring partner in boxing [2].</li> <li>One can also use a hybrid semi-supervised approach for Synthetic Aperture Radar images with limited labelled data. The method is split in: polarimetric scattering classification, topic modelling for scattering labels, unsupervised constraint learning, and supervised label prediction with constraints [3].</li> </ul><p>We applied these strategies in the ExtremeEarth sea-ice monitoring project (http://earthanalytics.eu/). As a result, we can demonstrate for which application cases these three strategies will provide a promising alternative to a simple conventional selection of available training data.</p><p>[1] C.O. Dumitru et. al, “Understanding Satellite Images: A Data Mining Module for Sentinel Images”, Big Earth Data, 2020, 4(4), pp. 367-408.</p><p>[2] D. Ao et. al., “Dialectical GAN for SAR Image Translation: From Sentinel-1 to TerraSAR-X”, Remote Sensing, 2018, 10(10), pp. 1-23.</p><p>[3] Z. Huang, et. al., "HDEC-TFA: An Unsupervised Learning Approach for Discovering Physical Scattering Properties of Single-Polarized SAR Images", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2020, pp.1-18.</p>

scholarly journals MRA-SNet: Siamese Networks of Multiscale Residual and Attention for Change Detection in High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 4528
Author(s):  
Xin Yang ◽  
Lei Hu ◽  
Yongmei Zhang ◽  
Yunqing Li
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Change Detection ◽  
Remote Sensing Image ◽  
Image Features ◽  
Remote Sensing Images ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Basic Network ◽  
And Performance

Remote sensing image change detection (CD) is an important task in remote sensing image analysis and is essential for an accurate understanding of changes in the Earth’s surface. The technology of deep learning (DL) is becoming increasingly popular in solving CD tasks for remote sensing images. Most existing CD methods based on DL tend to use ordinary convolutional blocks to extract and compare remote sensing image features, which cannot fully extract the rich features of high-resolution (HR) remote sensing images. In addition, most of the existing methods lack robustness to pseudochange information processing. To overcome the above problems, in this article, we propose a new method, namely MRA-SNet, for CD in remote sensing images. Utilizing the UNet network as the basic network, the method uses the Siamese network to extract the features of bitemporal images in the encoder separately and perform the difference connection to better generate difference maps. Meanwhile, we replace the ordinary convolution blocks with Multi-Res blocks to extract spatial and spectral features of different scales in remote sensing images. Residual connections are used to extract additional detailed features. To better highlight the change region features and suppress the irrelevant region features, we introduced the Attention Gates module before the skip connection between the encoder and the decoder. Experimental results on a public dataset of remote sensing image CD show that our proposed method outperforms other state-of-the-art (SOTA) CD methods in terms of evaluation metrics and performance.

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