Title
Unsupervised Difference Representation Learning for Detecting Multiple Types of Changes in Multitemporal Remote Sensing Images
Abstract
With the rapid increase of remote sensing images in temporal, spectral, and spatial resolutions, it is urgent to develop effective techniques for joint interpretation of spatial-temporal images. Multitype change detection (CD) is a significant research topic in multitemporal remote sensing image analysis, and its core is to effectively measure the difference degree and represent the difference among the multitemporal images. In this paper, we propose a novel difference representation learning (DRL) network and present an unsupervised learning framework for multitype CD task. Deep neural networks work well in representation learning but rely too much on labeled data, while clustering is a widely used classification technique free from supervision. However, the distribution of real remote sensing data is often not very friendly for clustering. To better highlight the changes and distinguish different types of changes, we combine difference measurement, DRL, and unsupervised clustering into a unified model, which can be driven to learn Gaussian-distributed and discriminative difference representations for nonchange and different types of changes. Furthermore, the proposed model is extended into an iterative framework to imitate the bottom-up aggregative clustering procedure, in which similar change types are gradually merged into the same classes. At the same time, the training samples are updated and reused to ensure that it converges to a stable solution. The experimental studies on four pairs of multispectral data sets demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed model on multitype CD.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/tgrs.2018.2872509
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Remote sensing,Training,Task analysis,Earth,Machine learning,Spatial resolution,Image analysis
Change detection,Task analysis,Remote sensing,Unsupervised learning,Cluster analysis,Unified Model,Discriminative model,Image resolution,Feature learning,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
57
4
0196-2892
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Puzhao Zhang1654.55
Maoguo Gong22676172.02
Hui Zhang340371.41
Jia Liu49215.15
Yifang Ban519422.83