A Generative Discriminatory Classified Network for Change Detection in Multispectral Imagery

Abstract

Multispectral image change detection based on deep learning generally needs a large amount of training data. However, it is difficult and expensive to mark a large amount of labeled data. To deal with this problem, we propose a generative discriminatory classified network (GDCN) for multispectral image change detection, in which labeled data, unlabeled data, and new fake data generated by generative adversarial networks are used. The GDCN consists of a discriminatory classified network (DCN) and a generator. The DCN divides the input data into changed class, unchanged class, and extra class, i.e., fake class. The generator recovers the real data from input noises to provide additional training samples so as to boost the performance of the DCN. Finally, the bitemporal multispectral images are input to the DCN to get the final change map. Experimental results on the real multispectral imagery datasets demonstrate that the proposed GDCN trained by unlabeled data and a small amount of labeled data can achieve competitive performance compared with existing methods.