Inshore ship detection in SAR image faces difficulties on correctly identifying near-shore ships and onshore objects. This article proposes a multi-scale full convolutional network (MS-FCN) based sea-land segmentation...
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Inshore ship detection in SAR image faces difficulties on correctly identifying near-shore ships and onshore objects. This article proposes a multi-scale full convolutional network (MS-FCN) based sea-land segmentation method and applies a rotatable bounding box based object detection method (DR-Box) to solve the inshore ship detection problem. The sea region and land region are separated by MS-FCN then DR-Box is applied on sea region. The proposed method combines global information and local information of SAR image to achieve high accuracy. The networks are trained with Chinese Gaofen-3 satellite images. Experiments on the testing image show most inshore ships are successfully located by the proposed method.
China is a flood disaster-prone country, floods occur almost every year, especially in July and August. Rapid detection and assessment for floods affected areas are of great significance. The Chinese GF-3 SAR satellit...
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China is a flood disaster-prone country, floods occur almost every year, especially in July and August. Rapid detection and assessment for floods affected areas are of great significance. The Chinese GF-3 SAR satellite, which uses active ground observation technology, has obvious advantages in flood disaster monitoring owing to its all-day, all-weather imaging characteristics. For the purpose of rapid water detection in flooding area, an automatic detection method of flood area based on GF-3 single-polarization SAR data is proposed. The proposed method consists of image preprocessing and water extraction. The experimental results show that the proposed method can realize rapid and accurate extraction of waters in flood disaster area.
The conventional shape similarity measurements of remote sensing data face problems in the situation of noise interference, partial information occlusion and missing. A method of shape similarity measurement based on ...
The conventional shape similarity measurements of remote sensing data face problems in the situation of noise interference, partial information occlusion and missing. A method of shape similarity measurement based on principal curvature enhancement distance transformation is proposed. The distance transformation is carried out to extend the range of the shape contour, improving the robustness of the similarity measure. Besides, to ensure the accuracy of measurement results, the distance map is enhanced by the principal curvature of the shape contour, improving the response of contours with rich information. application experiments of road vectors with GPS data and optical remote sensing images show that the method is effective in practical application.
Ionosphere is an important factor in highresolution spaceborne synthetic aperture radar(SAR) and geosynchronous(geo) SAR. An approach based on point target deviation between range sub-images is proposed in this pa...
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Ionosphere is an important factor in highresolution spaceborne synthetic aperture radar(SAR) and geosynchronous(geo) SAR. An approach based on point target deviation between range sub-images is proposed in this paper to estimate and correct the ionosphere. Due to the dispersion effect, the ionosphere causes propagation delay deviation in range subimages with different carrier frequency. This deviation can be used to estimate the total electron content(TEC) along the propagation path, and then the ionospheric effects can be corrected according to the signal model deduced out in this paper. The simulation results show that our approach is valid and robust.
Automatic inshore ship detection from remote sensing imagery has many important applications, such as ship change detection and harbor dynamic surveillance. Stable performance of inshore ship detection is vital to the...
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Automatic inshore ship detection from remote sensing imagery has many important applications, such as ship change detection and harbor dynamic surveillance. Stable performance of inshore ship detection is vital to the analysis of ship change and then determines the harbor surveillance effect. However, it is hard to detect inshore ships utilizing the traditional area-based method because the grayscale and texture character of inshore ships are similar to that of the shore. In this paper, a new method based on invariant generalized Hough transform is introduced to extract ship shape using the evidence-gathering procedure. In contrast with other shape extraction methods used in inshore ships detection, our method is specially tolerant to noise and occlusion, and also invariant to translation, scale and rotation transformation. Moreover, our method can be used to separate ships moored together that can benefit to ship recognition. Experiment results are demonstrated on the optical remote sensing imagery from Google Earth.
This paper presents a new simplex-based method for unsupervised endmember extraction, called maximum abundance sum-to-one constraint (ASC) fraction (MAF). The ASC fractions refer to the spectral unmixing results with ...
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This paper presents a new simplex-based method for unsupervised endmember extraction, called maximum abundance sum-to-one constraint (ASC) fraction (MAF). The ASC fractions refer to the spectral unmixing results with the abundance sum-to-one constraint unmixing only. The algorithm assumes the existence of the pure pixels in the input data for every endmember in the scene, and exploits the fact that pixels with maximum ASC fractions are corresponding to the vertices of a simplex. In order to demonstrate the performance of the proposed MAF, the N-findr algorithm (N-FINDR) and vertex component analysis (VCA) based merely on PCA dimensional reduction are used for comparison. Experiments using both simulated and real hyperspectral data show that MAF is effective in searching optimal results, with a low computational complexity.
Target classification is an important part in automatic target recognition (ATR) systems. Deep learning methods get state of the art performance in SAR target classification. Simulation is a useful data augmentation m...
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Target classification is an important part in automatic target recognition (ATR) systems. Deep learning methods get state of the art performance in SAR target classification. Simulation is a useful data augmentation method when the numbers of real samples for training is not sufficient. This article discusses how to release the full potential of simulated samples which is used to improve performance of SAR target classifier. The proposed method is based on cycle adversarial network (CycleGAN), which can transfer simulated samples to be more similar with real samples in image domain. Experiments show that adding simulated samples straightforward into training dataset is not helpful to improve the performance. However, adding the transferred simulated samples for training results in about 10% increase in accuracy in the designed SAR airplane classification experiment, compared with training without data augmentation.
Single image super-resolution (SR) has been widely studied in recent years as a crucial technique for remote sensing applications. This paper proposes a SR method for remote sensing images based on a transferred gener...
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Single image super-resolution (SR) has been widely studied in recent years as a crucial technique for remote sensing applications. This paper proposes a SR method for remote sensing images based on a transferred generative adversarial network (TGAN). Different from the previous GAN-based SR approaches, the novelty of our method mainly reflects from two aspects. First, the batch normalization layers are removed to reduce the memory consumption and the computational burden, as well as raising the accuracy. Second, our model is trained in a transfer-learning fashion to cope with the insufficiency of training data, which is the crux of applying deep learning methods to remote sensing applications. The model is firstly trained on an external dataset DIV2K and further fine-tuned with the remote sensing dataset. Our experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method is superior to SRCNN and SRGAN in terms of both the objective evaluation and the subjective perspective.
Owing to the property of being constant to image contrast and the identification of various types of features, phase congruency (PC) model has been widely used in remote sensing applications. However, when the PC is d...
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Owing to the property of being constant to image contrast and the identification of various types of features, phase congruency (PC) model has been widely used in remote sensing applications. However, when the PC is directly applied to optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image registration, it fails to handle large radiometric and geometric differences. In this paper, we propose an automatic algorithm to solve this problem. First, evenly-distributed keypoints are extracted from the optical images via the block harris method. Complementary grid points are selected in image regions with poor structure and texture information. Then a robust similarity metric based on the improved PC model is proposed. Since the two images show diverse properties, we utilize two different PC models, the traditional PC and the SAR-PC. The PC values of several directions are aggregated to construct the feature descriptors on the basis of which, as a result, a similarity metric using the normalized correlation coefficient (NCC) is obtained. We compare the proposed metric with two baselines (mutual information and NCC) and a state-of-the-art method (histogram of the oriented phase congruency, HOPC) in the case of various scenarios, the results show that our method outperforms the baselines and show comparable performance with HOPC in regions with abundant structure information and better performance in untextured regions.
Image compression has raised widespread interest recently due to its significant importance for multimedia storage and transmission. Meanwhile, a reliable image quality assessment (IQA) for compressed images can not o...
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