Rotation Invariant Aerial Image Retrieval with Group Convolutional Metric Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.09202v1
• Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 04:12:36 GMT
• Title: Rotation Invariant Aerial Image Retrieval with Group Convolutional Metric Learning
• Authors: Hyunseung Chung, Woo-Jeoung Nam, Seong-Whan Lee
• Abstract summary: We introduce a novel method for retrieving aerial images by merging group convolution with attention mechanism and metric learning. Results show that the proposed method performance exceeds other state-of-the-art retrieval methods in both rotated and original environments.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Remote sensing image retrieval (RSIR) is the process of ranking database images depending on the degree of similarity compared to the query image. As the complexity of RSIR increases due to the diversity in shooting range, angle, and location of remote sensors, there is an increasing demand for methods to address these issues and improve retrieval performance. In this work, we introduce a novel method for retrieving aerial images by merging group convolution with attention mechanism and metric learning, resulting in robustness to rotational variations. For refinement and emphasis on important features, we applied channel attention in each group convolution stage. By utilizing the characteristics of group convolution and channel-wise attention, it is possible to acknowledge the equality among rotated but identically located images. The training procedure has two main steps: (i) training the network with Aerial Image Dataset (AID) for classification, (ii) fine-tuning the network with triplet-loss for retrieval with Google Earth South Korea and NWPU-RESISC45 datasets. Results show that the proposed method performance exceeds other state-of-the-art retrieval methods in both rotated and original environments. Furthermore, we utilize class activation maps (CAM) to visualize the distinct difference of main features between our method and baseline, resulting in better adaptability in rotated environments.

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