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Deep Transfer Learning for Remote Sensing II

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2024 | Viewed by 1362

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Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
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Institut d’Electronique et des Technologies du numéRique, IETR UMR CNRS 6164, University of Rennes, 22305 Lannion, France
Interests: blind estimation of degradation characteristics (noise, PSF); blind restoration of multicomponent images; multimodal image correction; multicomponent image compression; multi-channel adaptive processing of signals and images; unsupervised machine learning and deep learning; multi-mode remote sensing data processing; remote sensing
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School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
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Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong 999077, China
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National Engineering Laboratory for Algorithm and Analysis Technology on Big Data, Research Institute for Mathematics and Mathematical Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Recently, deep learning (DL) for remote sensing (RS) image processing has emerged as a hot topic. Many deep learning models have been shown to perform well on RS images when trained with sufficient data. However, a limitation of DL for RS is that newly collected RS data usually have limited label information, which makes the performance of DL models processing RS images unsatisfactory.  A straightforward solution is to resort to existing labeled RS data to help process the new data, which falls under the scope of transfer learning (also known as domain adaptation).

Transfer learning attempts to reduce the high demand for labeled data on a target task by reusing knowledge obtained from one or more source tasks. Nowadays, transfer learning with deep neural networks, known as deep transfer learning, is a mainstream approach due to its powerful representation learning ability. In RS data processing, deep transfer learning that can overcome the semantic gap between different datasets has become a research frontier and it can utilize the information contained in existing labeled data to help make predictions for newly collected RS data.

This Special Issue is dedicated to exploring the potential of deep transfer learning in RS image processing. Due to differences in acquisition conditions and sensors, the spectra observed in a new scene may be very different from existing scenes, even if they represent the same types of objects. Such spectral differences introduce significant semantic differences between different RS datasets. Therefore, how to build deep transfer learning models for different RS datasets will be the main focus of this Special Issue.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Unsupervised domain adaptation for remote sensing under various settings (e.g., closed-set, open-set, partial, and universal domain adaptation);
  • Semi-supervised transfer learning for remote sensing;
  • Meta transfer learning for remote sensing;
  • Multi-task learning for remote sensing;
  • Domain generalization for remote sensing;
  • Transfer learning for remote sensing with various architectures (e.g., vision transformers, CNNs, RNNs, and capsule networks);
  • Representation learning for transfer learning in remote sensing;
  • Utilizing pre-trained large vision/NLP models in remote sensing;
  • Deep generative models for transfer learning in remote sensing;
  • Theories of transfer learning, domain adaptation, and domain generalization.

Dr. Yu Zhang
Prof. Dr. Benoit Vozel
Dr. Yuheng Jia
Dr. Junhui Hou
Prof. Dr. Deyu Meng
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Keywords

  • transfer learning
  • remote sensing images
  • domain adaptation
  • domain generalization
  • CNN

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Revealing the Potential of Deep Learning for Detecting Submarine Pipelines in Side-Scan Sonar Images: An Investigation of Pre-Training Datasets
by Xing Du, Yongfu Sun, Yupeng Song, Lifeng Dong and Xiaolong Zhao
Remote Sens. 2023, 15(19), 4873; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15194873 - 08 Oct 2023
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This study introduces a novel approach to the critical task of submarine pipeline or cable (POC) detection by employing GoogleNet for the automatic recognition of side-scan sonar (SSS) images. The traditional interpretation methods, heavily reliant on human interpretation, are replaced with a more [...] Read more.
This study introduces a novel approach to the critical task of submarine pipeline or cable (POC) detection by employing GoogleNet for the automatic recognition of side-scan sonar (SSS) images. The traditional interpretation methods, heavily reliant on human interpretation, are replaced with a more reliable deep-learning-based methodology. We explored the enhancement of model accuracy via transfer learning and scrutinized the influence of three distinct pre-training datasets on the model’s performance. The results indicate that GoogleNet facilitated effective identification, with accuracy and precision rates exceeding 90%. Furthermore, pre-training with the ImageNet dataset increased prediction accuracy by about 10% compared to the model without pre-training. The model’s prediction ability was best promoted by pre-training datasets in the following order: Marine-PULSE ≥ ImageNet > SeabedObjects-KLSG. Our study shows that pre-training dataset categories, dataset volume, and data consistency with predicted data are crucial factors affecting pre-training outcomes. These findings set the stage for future research on automatic pipeline detection using deep learning techniques and emphasize the significance of suitable pre-training dataset selection for CNN models. Full article
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