Commercial multispectral satellite datasets, such as WorldView-2 and Geoeye-1 images, are often delivered with a high-spatial resolution panchromatic image (PAN) as well as a corresponding lower resolution multispectral image (MSI). Certain fine features are only visible on the PAN but are difficult to discern on the MSI. To fully utilize the high-spatial resolution of the PAN and the rich spectral information from the MSI, a pan-sharpening process can be carried out. However, difficulties arise in maintaining radiometric accuracy, particularly for applications other than visual assessment. We propose a fast pan-sharpening process based on nearest-neighbor diffusion with the aim to enhance the salient spatial features while preserving spectral fidelity. Our approach assumes that each pixel spectrum in the pan-sharpened image is a weighted linear mixture of the spectra of its immediate neighboring superpixels; it treats each spectrum as its smallest element of operation, which is different from the most existing algorithms that process each band separately. Our approach is shown to be capable of preserving salient spatial and spectral features. We expect this algorithm to facilitate fine feature extraction from satellite images.
The key to preventing the COVID-19 is to diagnose patients quickly and accurately. Studies have shown that using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to analyze chest Computed Tomography (CT) images is helpful for timely COVID-19 diagnosis. However, personal privacy issues, public chest CT data sets are relatively few, which has limited CNN's application to COVID-19 diagnosis. Also, many CNNs have complex structures and massive parameters. Even if equipped with the dedicated Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) for acceleration, it still takes a long time, which is not conductive to widespread application. To solve above problems, this paper proposes a lightweight CNN classification model based on transfer learning. Use the lightweight CNN MobileNetV2 as the backbone of the model to solve the shortage of hardware resources and computing power. In order to alleviate the problem of model overfitting caused by insufficient data set, transfer learning is used to train the model. The study first exploits the weight parameters trained on the ImageNet database to initialize the MobileNetV2 network, and then retrain the model based on the CT image data set provided by Kaggle. Experimental results on a computer equipped only with the Central Processing Unit (CPU) show that it consumes only 1.06 s on average to diagnose a chest CT image. Compared to other lightweight models, the proposed model has a higher classification accuracy and reliability while having a lightweight architecture and few parameters, which can be easily applied to computers without GPU acceleration. Code:github.com/ZhouJie-520/paper-codes.
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