3 research outputs found
Semi-Supervised Fine-Tuning for Deep Learning Models in Remote Sensing Applications
A combinatory approach of two well-known fields: deep learning and semi
supervised learning is presented, to tackle the land cover identification
problem. The proposed methodology demonstrates the impact on the performance of
deep learning models, when SSL approaches are used as performance functions
during training. Obtained results, at pixel level segmentation tasks over
orthoimages, suggest that SSL enhanced loss functions can be beneficial in
models' performance
A Saliency Guided Semi-Supervised Building Change Detection Method for High Resolution Remote Sensing Images
Characterizations of up to date information of the Earth’s surface are an important application providing insights to urban planning, resources monitoring and environmental studies. A large number of change detection (CD) methods have been developed to solve them by utilizing remote sensing (RS) images. The advent of high resolution (HR) remote sensing images further provides challenges to traditional CD methods and opportunities to object-based CD methods. While several kinds of geospatial objects are recognized, this manuscript mainly focuses on buildings. Specifically, we propose a novel automatic approach combining pixel-based strategies with object-based ones for detecting building changes with HR remote sensing images. A multiresolution contextual morphological transformation called extended morphological attribute profiles (EMAPs) allows the extraction of geometrical features related to the structures within the scene at different scales. Pixel-based post-classification is executed on EMAPs using hierarchical fuzzy clustering. Subsequently, the hierarchical fuzzy frequency vector histograms are formed based on the image-objects acquired by simple linear iterative clustering (SLIC) segmentation. Then, saliency and morphological building index (MBI) extracted on difference images are used to generate a pseudo training set. Ultimately, object-based semi-supervised classification is implemented on this training set by applying random forest (RF). Most of the important changes are detected by the proposed method in our experiments. This study was checked for effectiveness using visual evaluation and numerical evaluation