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A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "AI Remote Sensing".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 29 February 2024 | Viewed by 2194

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Dr. Yanni Dong

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Institute of Geophysics and Geomatics, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
Interests: hyperspectral target detection; dimensionality reduction; scene classification; metric learning; transfer learning; multi-source remote sensing data geological interpretation
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Dr. Xiaochen Yang

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School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
Interests: distance metric learning; few-shot learning; hyperspectral image analysis; statistical classification
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Prof. Dr. Qian Du

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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS 39762, USA
Interests: hyperspectral imagery; remote sensing; intelligent processing; machine learning; pattern recognition
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Dear Colleagues,

Remote sensing image includes a rich description of the earth’s surface in various modalities (hyperspectral data, high resolution data, multispectral data, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data, etc.). Remote sensing target detection or object detection aims to determine whether there are targets or objects of interest in the image, playing a decisive role in resource detection, environmental monitoring, urban planning, national security, agriculture, forestry, climate, hydrolog, etc. In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has achieved considerable development and been successfully applied for various applications, such as regression, clustering, classification, etc. Although AI-driven approaches can handle the massive quantities of data acquired by remote sensors, they require many high-quality labeled samples to deal with remote sensing big data, leading to fragile results. That is, AI-driven approaches with strong feature extraction abilities have limited performance and are still far from practical demands. Thus, target detection or object detection in the presence of complicated backgrounds with limited labeled samples remains a challenging mission. There is still much room for research on remote sensing target detection and object detection. The main goal of this Special Issue is to address advanced topics related to remote sensing target detection and object detection.

Topics of interests include but are not limited to the following:

New AI-driven methods for remote sensing data, such as GNN, transformer, etc.;
New remote sensing datasets, including hyperspectral, high resolution, SAR datasets, etc.;
Machine learning techniques for remote sensing applications, such as domain adaptation, few-shot learning, manifold learning, and metric learning;
Machine learning-based drone detection and fine-grained detection;
Target detection, object detection, and anomaly detection;
Data-driven applications in remote sensing;
Technique reviews on related topics.

Dr. Yanni Dong
Dr. Xiaochen Yang
Prof. Dr. Qian Du
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remote sensing
target detection
artificial intelligence
machine learning
deep learning
object detection
new datasets

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A Multi-Stream Attention-Aware Convolutional Neural Network: Monitoring of Sand and Dust Storms from Ordinary Urban Surveillance Cameras

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Remote Sens. 2023, 15(21), 5227; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15215227 - 03 Nov 2023

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Sand and dust storm (SDS) weather has caused several severe hazards in many regions worldwide, e.g., environmental pollution, traffic disruptions, and human casualties. Widespread surveillance cameras show great potential for high spatiotemporal resolution SDS observation. This study explores the possibility of employing the surveillance camera as an alternative SDS monitor. Based on SDS image feature analysis, a Multi-Stream Attention-aware Convolutional Neural Network (MA-CNN), which learns SDS image features at different scales through a multi-stream structure and employs an attention mechanism to enhance the detection performance, is constructed for an accurate SDS observation task. Moreover, a dataset with 13,216 images was built to train and test the MA-CNN. Eighteen algorithms, including nine well-known deep learning models and their variants built on an attention mechanism, were used for comparison. The experimental results showed that the MA-CNN achieved an accuracy performance of 0.857 on the training dataset, while this value changed to 0.945, 0.919, and 0.953 in three different real-world scenarios, which is the optimal performance among the compared algorithms. Therefore, surveillance camera-based monitors can effectively observe the occurrence of SDS disasters and provide valuable supplements to existing SDS observation networks. Full article

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An Infrared Maritime Small Target Detection Algorithm Based on Semantic, Detail, and Edge Multidimensional Information Fusion

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Remote Sens. 2023, 15(20), 4909; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15204909 - 11 Oct 2023

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The infrared small target detection technology has a wide range of applications in maritime defense warning and maritime border reconnaissance, especially in the maritime and sky scenes for detecting potential terrorist attacks and monitoring maritime borders. However, due to the weak nature of infrared targets and the presence of background interferences such as wave reflections and islands in maritime scenes, targets are easily submerged in the background, making small infrared targets hard to detect. We propose the multidimensional information fusion network(MIFNet) that can learn more information from limited data and achieve more accurate target segmentation. The multidimensional information fusion module calculates semantic information through the attention mechanism and fuses it with detailed information and edge information, enabling the network to achieve more accurate target position detection and avoid detecting one target as multiple ones, especially in high-precision scenes such as maritime target detection, thus effectively improving the accuracy and reliability of detection. Moreover, experiments on our constructed dataset for small infrared targets in maritime scenes demonstrate that our algorithm has advantages over other state-of-the-art algorithms, with an IoU of 79.09%, nIoU of 79.43%, F1 score of 87.88%, and AuC of 95.96%. Full article

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Hybrid Task Cascade-Based Building Extraction Method in Remote Sensing Imagery

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Remote Sens. 2023, 15(20), 4907; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15204907 - 11 Oct 2023

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Instance segmentation has been widely applied in building extraction from remote sensing imagery in recent years, and accurate instance segmentation results are crucial for urban planning, construction and management. However, existing methods for building instance segmentation (BSI) still have room for improvement. To achieve better detection accuracy and superior performance, we introduce a Hybrid Task Cascade (HTC)-based building extraction method, which is more tailored to the characteristics of buildings. As opposed to a cascaded improvement that performs the bounding box and mask branch refinement separately, HTC intertwines them in a joint multilevel process. The experimental results also validate its effectiveness. Our approach achieves better detection accuracy compared to mainstream instance segmentation methods on three different building datasets, yielding outcomes that are more in line with the distinctive characteristics of buildings. Furthermore, we evaluate the effectiveness of each module of the HTC for building extraction and analyze the impact of the detection threshold on the model’s detection accuracy. Finally, we investigate the generalization ability of the proposed model. Full article

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Exploiting Remote Sensing Imagery for Vehicle Detection and Classification Using an Artificial Intelligence Technique

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Remote Sens. 2023, 15(18), 4600; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15184600 - 19 Sep 2023

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Remote sensing imagery involves capturing and examining details about the Earth’s surface from a distance, often using satellites, drones, or other aerial platforms. It offers useful data with which to monitor and understand different phenomena on Earth. Vehicle detection and classification play a crucial role in various applications, including traffic monitoring, urban planning, and environmental analysis. Deep learning, specifically convolutional neural networks (CNNs), has revolutionized vehicle detection in remote sensing. This study designs an improved Chimp optimization algorithm with a DL-based vehicle detection and classification (ICOA-DLVDC) technique on RSI. The presented ICOA-DLVDC technique involves two phases: object detection and classification. For vehicle detection, the ICOA-DLVDC technique applies the EfficientDet model. Next, the detected objects can be classified by using the sparse autoencoder (SAE) model. To optimize the SAE’s hyperparameters effectively, we introduce an ICOA which streamlines the parameter tuning process, accelerating convergence and enhancing the overall performance of the SAE classifier. An extensive set of experiments has been conducted to highlight the improved vehicle classification outcomes of the ICOA-DLVDC technique. The simulation values demonstrated the remarkable performance of the ICOA-DLVDC approach compared to other recent techniques, with a maximum accuracy of 99.70% and 99.50% on the VEDAI dataset and ISPRS Postdam dataset, respectively. Full article

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