Unsupervised Deep Representation Learning and Few-Shot Classification of PolSAR Images

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.15351v2
• Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 01:27:15 GMT
• Title: Unsupervised Deep Representation Learning and Few-Shot Classification of PolSAR Images
• Authors: Lamei Zhang and Siyu Zhang and Bin Zou and Hongwei Dong
• Abstract summary: This paper proposes a PolSAR-tailored contrastive learning network (PCLNet) for unsupervised deep representation learning and few-shot classification. PCLNet develops an unsupervised pre-training phase based on the proxy objective of instance discrimination to learn useful representations from unlabeled PolSAR data. Experiments on two widely-used PolSAR benchmark datasets confirm the validity of PCLNet.
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• Abstract: Deep learning and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have made progress in polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) image classification over the past few years. However, a crucial issue has not been addressed, i.e., the requirement of CNNs for abundant labeled samples versus the insufficient human annotations of PolSAR images. It is well-known that following the supervised learning paradigm may lead to the overfitting of training data, and the lack of supervision information of PolSAR images undoubtedly aggravates this problem, which greatly affects the generalization performance of CNN-based classifiers in large-scale applications. To handle this problem, in this paper, learning transferrable representations from unlabeled PolSAR data through convolutional architectures is explored for the first time. Specifically, a PolSAR-tailored contrastive learning network (PCLNet) is proposed for unsupervised deep PolSAR representation learning and few-shot classification. Different from the utilization of optical processing methods, a diversity stimulation mechanism is constructed to narrow the application gap between optics and PolSAR. Beyond the conventional supervised methods, PCLNet develops an unsupervised pre-training phase based on the proxy objective of instance discrimination to learn useful representations from unlabeled PolSAR data. The acquired representations are transferred to the downstream task, i.e., few-shot PolSAR classification. Experiments on two widely-used PolSAR benchmark datasets confirm the validity of PCLNet. Besides, this work may enlighten how to efficiently utilize the massive unlabeled PolSAR data to alleviate the greedy demands of CNN-based methods for human annotations.

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