Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Change Detection via Siamese Adaptive Fusion Network

Abstract

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image change detection is a critical yet challenging task in the field of remote sensing image analysis. The task is nontrivial due to the following challenges: First, intrinsic speckle noise of SAR images inevitably degrades the neural network because of error gradient accumulation. Furthermore, the correlation among various levels or scales of feature maps is difficult to be achieved through summation or concatenation. Toward this end, we proposed a siamese adaptive fusion (AF) network for SAR image change detection. To be more specific, two-branch CNN is utilized to extract high-level semantic features of multitemporal SAR images. Besides, an AF module is designed to adaptively combine multiscale responses in convolutional layers. Therefore, the complementary information is exploited, and feature learning in change detection is further improved. Moreover, a correlation layer is designed to further explore the correlation between multitemporal images. Thereafter, robust feature representation is utilized for classification through a fully connected layer with softmax. Experimental results on four real SAR datasets demonstrate that the proposed method exhibits superior performance against several state-of-the-art methods. Our codes are available at https://github.com/summitgao/SAR_CD_SAFNet.

Keywords

• Attention mechanism
• change detection
• deep learning
• siamese adaptive fusion network (SAFNet)
• synthetic aperture radar (SAR)