SSCV-GANs: Semi-Supervised Complex-Valued GANs for PolSAR Image Classification

Abstract

Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) image classification has been widely applied in many fields, such as agriculture, meteorology and military. However, some problems, such as the deficiency of labeled data and the underutilization of data information, are always the challenges that can not be ignored in PolSAR image classification. In this paper, a semi-supervised complex-valued generative adversarial networks (SSCV-GANs) is proposed for the first time to address the two issues mentioned above simultaneously. On the one hand, the complex-valued model conforms with the physical mechanism of PolSAR data and it plays an important role for retaining and utilizing amplitude and phase information of PolSAR data. On the other hand, we also present a new complex-valued GANs together with semi-supervised learning to alleviate the problem of insufficient labeled data. Specifically, our complex-valued GANs expands the training data set by generating fake data. Flevoland data and San Francisco data are used to validate the effectiveness of our model. Experimental results show that our model outperforms existing state-of-the-art models in terms of classification accuracy, especially for conditions with fewer labeled data. In particular, the analysis of the statistical distribution of the generated fake data and the real data further demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed SSCV-GANs.

Keywords

• Polarimetric synthetic aperture
• image classification
• complex-valued operations
• generative adversarial networks (GANs)
• semi-supervised learning