Continual Barlow Twins: continual self-supervised learning for remote sensing semantic segmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.11319v1
• Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 14:02:12 GMT
• Title: Continual Barlow Twins: continual self-supervised learning for remote sensing semantic segmentation
• Authors: Valerio Marsocci, Simone Scardapane
• Abstract summary: We propose a new algorithm for merging Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) and Continual Learning (CL) for remote sensing applications, that we call Continual Barlow Twins (CBT) CBT combines the advantages of one of the simplest self-supervision techniques, i.e., Barlow Twins, with the Elastic Weight Consolidation method to avoid catastrophic forgetting. For the first time we evaluate SSL methods on a highly heterogeneous Earth Observation dataset, showing the effectiveness of these strategies.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In the field of Earth Observation (EO), Continual Learning (CL) algorithms have been proposed to deal with large datasets by decomposing them into several subsets and processing them incrementally. The majority of these algorithms assume that data is (a) coming from a single source, and (b) fully labeled. Real-world EO datasets are instead characterized by a large heterogeneity (e.g., coming from aerial, satellite, or drone scenarios), and for the most part they are unlabeled, meaning they can be fully exploited only through the emerging Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) paradigm. For these reasons, in this paper we propose a new algorithm for merging SSL and CL for remote sensing applications, that we call Continual Barlow Twins (CBT). It combines the advantages of one of the simplest self-supervision techniques, i.e., Barlow Twins, with the Elastic Weight Consolidation method to avoid catastrophic forgetting. In addition, for the first time we evaluate SSL methods on a highly heterogeneous EO dataset, showing the effectiveness of these strategies on a novel combination of three almost non-overlapping domains datasets (airborne Potsdam dataset, satellite US3D dataset, and drone UAVid dataset), on a crucial downstream task in EO, i.e., semantic segmentation. Encouraging results show the superiority of SSL in this setting, and the effectiveness of creating an incremental effective pretrained feature extractor, based on ResNet50, without the need of relying on the complete availability of all the data, with a valuable saving of time and resources.

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