A Change Detection Method for Remote Sensing Images Based on Coupled Dictionary and Deep Learning.

Journal: Computational intelligence and neuroscience
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Abstract

With the rapid development of remote sensing technology, change detection (CD) methods based on remote sensing images have been widely used in land resource planning, disaster monitoring, and urban expansion, among other fields. The purpose of CD is to accurately identify changes on the Earth's surface. However, most CD methods focus on changes between the pixels of multitemporal remote sensing image pairs while ignoring the coupled relationships between them. This often leads to uncertainty about edge pixels with regard to changing objects and misclassification of small objects. To solve these problems, we propose a CD method for remote sensing images that uses a coupled dictionary and deep learning. The proposed method realizes the spatial-temporal modeling and correlation of multitemporal remote sensing images through a coupled dictionary learning module and ensures the transferability of reconstruction coefficients between multisource image blocks. In addition, we constructed a differential feature discriminant network to calculate the dissimilarity probability for the change area. A new loss function that considers true/false discrimination loss, classification loss, and cross-entropy loss is proposed. The most discriminating features can be extracted and used for CD. The performance of the proposed method was verified on two well-known CD datasets. Extensive experimental results show that the proposed method is superior to other methods in terms of precision, recall, -score, IoU, and OA.

Authors

  • Weiwei Yang
    School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Taizhou University, Taizhou 318000, Zhejiang, China.
  • Haifeng Song
    Department of Urology, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
  • Lei Du
    School of Mathematical Sciences, Dalian University of Technology, Chuangxinyuan Building, No.2 Linggong Road, Ganjingzi District, Dalian, 116024, Liaoning, China.
  • Songsong Dai
    School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Taizhou University, Taizhou 318000, Zhejiang, China.
  • Yingying Xu
    Division of General and Community Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave, Cincinnati, OH, 45229, USA.