Region level SAR image classification using deep features and spatial constraints

2020 
Abstract The region-level SAR image classification algorithms which combine CNN (Convolutional Neural Networks) with super-pixel have been proposed to enhance the classification accuracy compared with the pixel-level algorithms. However, the spatial constraints between the super-pixel regions are not considered, which may limit the performance of these algorithms. To address this problem, an RCC-MRF (RCC, Region Category Confidence-degree) and CNN based region-level SAR image classification algorithm which explores the deep features extracted by CNN and the spatial constraints between super-pixel regions is proposed in this paper. The initial labels of super-pixel regions are obtained using a voting strategy based on the predicted labels CNN. The unary energy function of RCC-MRF is designed to find the category that a region most probably belongs to by using the RCC term which is constructed based on the probability distributions over all categories of pixels predicted by CNN. The binary energy function of RCC-MRF explores the spatial constraints between the adjacent super-pixel regions. In our proposed algorithm, the pixel-level misclassifications can be reduced by the smoothing within regions and the region-level misclassifications will be rectified by minimizing the energy function of RCC-MRF. Experiments have been done on simulated and real SAR images to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm notably outperforms the other CNN-based region-level SAR image classification algorithms.
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