Title
ROI Extraction Based on Multiview Learning and Attention Mechanism for Unbalanced Remote Sensing Data Set
Abstract
With an increasing number of remote sensing images (RSIs), the automatic region of interest (ROI) extraction based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) has attracted much interest in recent years. Although fully supervised CNN-based methods have shown superiority in the field of object extraction, pixelwise annotations are expensive and time-consuming. Moreover, due to the unstable distribution of ROIs in complex landscapes, the ratios of foreground and background areas are quite different in RSIs. Training CNNs with such unbalanced data sets lead to over-fitting and low accuracy. In this article, we propose a framework that combines multiview learning and attention mechanism (MLAM) to solve the above mentioned problems. First, we develop a CNN-based weakly supervised method with a weight-balanced loss function to solve the problems caused by an unbalanced data set. It also helps to generate imagewise saliency maps by computing the gradient maps with respect to the input images. Then, we design a multiview strategy to dramatically reduce the missing inspection. Finally, we design a feedback attention mechanism based on the stage neighbor binary pattern to further modify the extraction result. In summary, the proposed framework achieves pixelwise ROI extraction under imagewise annotations through data-driven ML and a knowledge-driven visual attention mechanism. We evaluate the performance of the MLAM framework on two challenging data sets with complex backgrounds. The experimental results indicate that the proposed framework can achieve better performance than other eight ROI extraction models for unbalanced remote sensing data sets.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/TGRS.2020.2975380
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Deep learning,image processing,region of interest (ROI) extraction,remote sensing,saliency analysis
Journal
58
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
9
0196-2892
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jing Ma113134.06
Li-Bao Zhang210125.89
Yang Sun34615.21