Title
A General Feature Paradigm for Unsupervised Cross-Domain PolSAR Image Classification
Abstract
Limited labels and increasing multisource data promote domain adaptation (DA) problem as a challenging study for polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) interpretation. Existing DAs for optical images cannot generalize over PolSAR imagery due to its special side-imaging characteristics and complex distribution shifts. In this letter, a general feature paradigm (GFP) is proposed for unsupervised cross-domain PolSAR image classification. The GFP is based on a key observation that interclass aggregation is optimized after four-step feature transformations. This key observation leads to GFP that not only reduces the domain shifts but also compatible with typical DA methods. The GFPs are conducted on both source and target domain by unsupervised manner, including polarimetric basis extraction, the Wishart clustering, histogram statistics, and dimensionality reduction. After these transformations, the unlabeled target PolSAR image can be classified based on obtained GFP, DA, and limited labeled samples only from the source domain. Extensive unsupervised cross-domain experiments on 27 scenarios verified that GFP leads to at most 93.76% accuracy for full- and dual-polarized synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images' classification. Moreover, the GFP shed light on extensive cross-domain PolSAR applications about built-up areas, vegetation, and bare land analysis.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/LGRS.2021.3073738
IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING LETTERS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Scattering, Feature extraction, Histograms, Synthetic aperture radar, Dimensionality reduction, Optical sensors, Data visualization, Dual-polarized synthetic aperture radar (SAR), full-polarized SAR, land cover classification, polarimetric feature paradigm, unsupervised domain adaptation (DA)
Journal
19
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1545-598X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
8
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rong Gui1165.00
Xin Xu216240.08
Rui Yang37518.56
Zhaozhuo Xu4102.91
Wang Lei542950.67
Fangling Pu621.74