A Global Weighted Least-Squares Optimization Framework for Speckle Filtering of PolSAR Imagery

Ren, Yexian; Zhao, Lingli; Li, Pingxiang; Liu, Zhiqu; Shi, Lei

doi:10.1109/tgrs.2018.2865507

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“…Then, by combining the 9-D original data and the 6-D polarimetric features, each pixel of a PolSAR image can be represented by a 15-dimensional (15-D) feature vector, i.e.,

. It should be pointed that, to reduce the impact of inherent speckles, PolSAR images are filtered before constructing two feature views in our method, where the method of global weighted least squares (GWLS) filtering [ 46 ] is used.…”

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Semi-Supervised Classification of PolSAR Images Based on Co-Training of CNN and SVM with Limited Labeled Samples

Zhao

Cheng

Qin

et al. 2023

Sensors

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Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown significant advantages in the tasks of image classification; however, these usually require a large number of labeled samples for training. In practice, it is difficult and costly to obtain sufficient labeled samples of polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) images. To address this problem, we propose a novel semi-supervised classification method for PolSAR images in this paper, using the co-training of CNN and a support vector machine (SVM). In our co-training method, an eight-layer CNN with residual network (ResNet) architecture is designed as the primary classifier, and an SVM is used as the auxiliary classifier. In particular, the SVM is used to enhance the performance of our algorithm in the case of limited labeled samples. In our method, more and more pseudo-labeled samples are iteratively yielded for training through a two-stage co-training of CNN and SVM, which gradually improves the performance of the two classifiers. The trained CNN is employed as the final classifier due to its strong classification capability with enough samples. We carried out experiments on two C-band airborne PolSAR images acquired by the AIRSAR systems and an L-band spaceborne PolSAR image acquired by the GaoFen-3 system. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can effectively integrate the complementary advantages of SVM and CNN, providing overall classification accuracy of more than 97%, 96% and 93% with limited labeled samples (10 samples per class) for the above three images, respectively, which is superior to the state-of-the-art semi-supervised methods for PolSAR image classification.

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“…Then, by combining the 9-D original data and the 6-D polarimetric features, each pixel of a PolSAR image can be represented by a 15-dimensional (15-D) feature vector, i.e.,

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%