Generic Knowledge Boosted Pre-training For Remote Sensing Images

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04614v2
• Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2024 12:56:32 GMT
• Title: Generic Knowledge Boosted Pre-training For Remote Sensing Images
• Authors: Ziyue Huang, Mingming Zhang, Yuan Gong, Qingjie Liu, Yunhong Wang
• Abstract summary: Generic Knowledge Boosted Remote Sensing Pre-training (GeRSP) is a novel remote sensing pre-training framework. GeRSP learns robust representations from remote sensing and natural images for remote sensing understanding tasks. We show that GeRSP can effectively learn robust representations in a unified manner, improving the performance of remote sensing downstream tasks.
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• Abstract: Deep learning models are essential for scene classification, change detection, land cover segmentation, and other remote sensing image understanding tasks. Most backbones of existing remote sensing deep learning models are typically initialized by pre-trained weights obtained from ImageNet pre-training (IMP). However, domain gaps exist between remote sensing images and natural images (e.g., ImageNet), making deep learning models initialized by pre-trained weights of IMP perform poorly for remote sensing image understanding. Although some pre-training methods are studied in the remote sensing community, current remote sensing pre-training methods face the problem of vague generalization by only using remote sensing images. In this paper, we propose a novel remote sensing pre-training framework, Generic Knowledge Boosted Remote Sensing Pre-training (GeRSP), to learn robust representations from remote sensing and natural images for remote sensing understanding tasks. GeRSP contains two pre-training branches: (1) A self-supervised pre-training branch is adopted to learn domain-related representations from unlabeled remote sensing images. (2) A supervised pre-training branch is integrated into GeRSP for general knowledge learning from labeled natural images. Moreover, GeRSP combines two pre-training branches using a teacher-student architecture to simultaneously learn representations with general and special knowledge, which generates a powerful pre-trained model for deep learning model initialization. Finally, we evaluate GeRSP and other remote sensing pre-training methods on three downstream tasks, i.e., object detection, semantic segmentation, and scene classification. The extensive experimental results consistently demonstrate that GeRSP can effectively learn robust representations in a unified manner, improving the performance of remote sensing downstream tasks.

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