scholarly journals Unsupervised Change Detection Using Fuzzy Topology-Based Majority Voting

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 3171
Author(s):  
Pan Shao ◽  
Wenzhong Shi ◽  
Zhewei Liu ◽  
Ting Dong
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Change Detection ◽  
Majority Voting ◽  
Fuzzy Topology ◽  
Remote Sensing Images ◽  
Fuzzy Topological Space ◽  
Multispectral Remote Sensing ◽  
Effectiveness And Efficiency ◽  
Difference Images ◽  
Fusion Approach

Remote sensing change detection (CD) plays an important role in Earth observation. In this paper, we propose a novel fusion approach for unsupervised CD of multispectral remote sensing images, by introducing majority voting (MV) into fuzzy topological space (FTMV). The proposed FTMV approach consists of three principal stages: (1) the CD results of different difference images produced by the fuzzy C-means algorithm are combined using a modified MV, and an initial fusion CD map is obtained; (2) by using fuzzy topology theory, the initial fusion CD map is automatically partitioned into two parts: a weakly conflicting part and strongly conflicting part; (3) the weakly conflicting pixels that possess little or no conflict are assigned to the current class, while the pixel patterns with strong conflicts often misclassified are relabeled using the supported connectivity of fuzzy topology. FTMV can integrate the merits of different CD results and largely solve the conflicting problem during fusion. Experimental results on three real remote sensing images confirm the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed method.

scholarly journals Change Detection in Multispectral Remote Sensing Images with Leader Intelligence PSO and NSCT Feature Fusion

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 462
Author(s):  
Josephina Paul ◽  
B. Uma Shankar ◽  
Balaram Bhattacharyya
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Change Detection ◽  
Feature Fusion ◽  
Spectral Band ◽  
Minimum Energy ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Remote Sensing Images ◽  
Difference Image ◽  
Difference Images

Change detection (CD) using Remote sensing images have been a challenging problem over the years. Particularly in the unsupervised domain it is even more difficult. A novel automatic change detection technique in the unsupervised framework is proposed to address the real challenges involved in remote sensing change detection. As the accuracy of change map is highly dependent on quality of difference image (DI), a set of Normalized difference images and a complementary set of Normalized Ratio images are fused in the Nonsubsampled Contourlet Transform (NSCT) domain to generate high quality difference images. The NSCT is chosen as it is efficient in suppressing noise by utilizing its unique characteristics such as multidirectionality and shift-invariance that are suitable for change detection. The low frequency sub bands are fused by averaging to combine the complementary information in the two DIs, and, the higher frequency sub bands are merged by minimum energy rule, for preserving the edges and salient features in the image. By employing a novel Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm with Leader Intelligence (LIPSO), change maps are generated from fused sub bands in two different ways: (i) single spectral band, and (ii) combination of spectral bands. In LIPSO, the concept of leader and followers has been modified with intelligent particles performing Lévy flight randomly for better exploration, to achieve global optima. The proposed method achieved an overall accuracy of 99.64%, 98.49% and 97.66% on the three datasets considered, which is very high. The results have been compared with relevant algorithms. The quantitative metrics demonstrate the superiority of the proposed techniques over the other methods and are found to be statistically significant with McNemar’s test. Visual quality of the results also corroborate the superiority of the proposed method.

scholarly journals Automatic Change Detection Method of Multitemporal Remote Sensing Images Based on 2D-Otsu Algorithm Improved by Firefly Algorithm

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liang Huang ◽  
Yuanmin Fang ◽  
Xiaoqing Zuo ◽  
Xueqin Yu
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Change Detection ◽  
Firefly Algorithm ◽  
Detection Method ◽  
Binary Classification ◽  
Remote Sensing Images ◽  
Threshold Segmentation ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Multitemporal Remote Sensing ◽  
Difference Images

This paper presents a new automatic change detection method of multitemporal remote sensing images based on 2D-Otsu algorithm improved by Firefly algorithm. The proposed method is designed to automatically extract the changing area between two temporal remote sensing images. First, two different temporal remote sensing images were acquired through difference value method of remote sensing images; then, the 2D-Otsu threshold segmentation principles are analyzed and the optimal threshold of 2D-Otsu threshold segmentation method is figured out by using the Firefly algorithm, where the difference images are conducted with binary classification to obtain the changing category and the nonchanging category; finally, the proposed method is used to carry out change detection experiments on the two selected areas, where a variety of methods are compared. Experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively and quickly extract the changing area between the two temporal remote sensing images; thus, it is an effective method of change detection for remote sensing images.

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