Change Detection From Synthetic Aperture Radar Images via Graph-Based Knowledge Supplement Network

Abstract

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image change detection is a vital yet challenging task in the field of remote sensing image analysis. Most previous works adopt a self-supervised method which uses pseudolabeled samples to guide subsequent training and testing. However, deep networks commonly require many high-quality samples for parameter optimization. The noise in pseudolabels inevitably affects the final change detection performance. To solve the problem, we propose a graph-based knowledge supplement network (GKSNet). To be more specific, we extract discriminative information from the existing labeled dataset as additional knowledge, to suppress the adverse effects of noisy samples to some extent. Afterward, we design a graph transfer module to distill contextual information attentively from the labeled dataset to the target dataset, which bridges feature correlation between datasets. To validate the proposed method, we conducted extensive experiments on four SAR datasets, which demonstrated the superiority of the proposed GKSNet as compared to several state-of-the-art baselines. Our codes are available: at https://github.com/summitgao/SAR_CD_GKSNet.

Keywords

• Change detection
• graph dependency fusion
• knowledge supplement network
• synthetic aperture radar (SAR)