Title
Structure Consistency-Based Graph for Unsupervised Change Detection With Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Remote Sensing Images
Abstract
Change detection (CD) of remote sensing (RS) images is one of the important problems in earth observation, which has been extensively studied in recent years. However, with the development of RS technology, the specific characteristics of remotely sensed images, including sensor characteristics, resolutions, noises, and distortions in imagery, make the CD more complex. In this article, we propose a structure consistency-based method for CD, which detects changes by comparing the structures of two images, rather than comparing the pixel values of images. Because the image structure is imaging modality-invariant and not sensitive to noise, illumination, and other interference factors, the proposed method can be applied to a variety of CD scenarios and has strong robustness. Structural comparison is realized by constructing and mapping an improved nonlocal patch-based graph (NLPG) to avoid the data leakage of two images. First, we demonstrate the effectiveness of the method in homogeneous and heterogeneous CD, which shows that the proposed method can be used as a unified CD framework. Second, we extend the method to the heterogeneous CD with multichannel synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image, which can provide a reference for future research as the heterogeneous CD with multichannel SAR is rarely studied. Third, through the decomposition and in-depth analysis of NLPG, we modify the graph construction process, structure difference calculation, and the difference image fusion to make it more robust and accurate. Experiments on six scenarios 12 data sets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TGRS.2021.3053571
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Synthetic aperture radar, Radar polarimetry, Image resolution, Optical variables measurement, Optical imaging, Adaptive optics, Optical sensors, Graph, heterogeneous data, nonlocal similarity, structure consistency, unsupervised change detection (CD)
Journal
60
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
99
0196-2892
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yuli Sun101.35
Lin Lei2276.54
Xiao Li300.34
Xiang Tan401.35
Gangyao Kuang502.37