Unsupervised change detection method based on saliency analysis and convolutional neural network

Daifeng Peng; Haiyan Guan

doi:10.1117/1.JRS.13.024512

8 May 2019 Unsupervised change detection method based on saliency analysis and convolutional neural network

Daifeng Peng, Haiyan Guan

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Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, Vol. 13, Issue 2, 024512 (May 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.13.024512

Abstract

Due to great advantages in deep features representation and classification for image data, deep learning is becoming increasingly popular for change detection (CD) in the remote-sensing community. An unsupervised CD method is proposed by combining deep features representation, saliency detection, and convolutional neural network (CNN). First, bitemporal images are fed into the pretrained CNN model for deep features extraction and difference image generation. Second, multiscale saliency detection is adopted to implement the uncertainty analysis for the difference image, where image pixels can be categorized into three classes: changed, unchanged, and uncertain. Then, a flexible CNN model is constructed and trained using the interested changed and unchanged pixels, and the change type of the uncertain pixels can be determined by the CNN model. Finally, object-based refinement and multiscale fusion strategies are utilized to generate the final change map. The effectiveness and reliability of our CD method are verified on three very high-resolution datasets, and the experimental results show that our proposed approach outperforms the other state-of-the-art CD methods in terms of five quantitative metrics.

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Daifeng Peng and Haiyan Guan "Unsupervised change detection method based on saliency analysis and convolutional neural network," Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 13(2), 024512 (8 May 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.13.024512

Received: 19 January 2019; Accepted: 12 April 2019; Published: 8 May 2019

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