Abstract

With the urgent demand for automatic management of large numbers of high-resolution remote sensing images, content-based high-resolution remote sensing image retrieval (CB-HRRS-IR) has attracted much research interest. Accordingly, this paper proposes a novel high-resolution remote sensing image retrieval approach via multiple feature representation and collaborative affinity metric fusion (IRMFRCAMF). In IRMFRCAMF, we design four unsupervised convolutional neural networks with different layers to generate four types of unsupervised features from the fine level to the coarse level. In addition to these four types of unsupervised features, we also implement four traditional feature descriptors, including local binary pattern (LBP), gray level co-occurrence (GLCM), maximal response 8 (MR8), and scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT). In order to fully incorporate the complementary information among multiple features of one image and the mutual information across auxiliary images in the image dataset, this paper advocates collaborative affinity metric fusion to measure the similarity between images. The performance evaluation of high-resolution remote sensing image retrieval is implemented on two public datasets, the UC Merced (UCM) dataset and the Wuhan University (WH) dataset. Large numbers of experiments show that our proposed IRMFRCAMF can significantly outperform the state-of-the-art approaches.

Highlights

  • With the rapid development of remote sensing technology, the volume of acquired high-resolution remote sensing images has dramatically increased

  • In order to address these problems in CB-HRRS-IR, this paper proposes a novel approach using unsupervised feature learning and collaborative metric fusion

  • This paper proposes a robust high-resolution remote sensing Image Retrieval approach via Multiple Feature Representation and Collaborative Affinity Metric Fusion, which is called IRMFRCAMF in the following

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Summary

Introduction

With the rapid development of remote sensing technology, the volume of acquired high-resolution remote sensing images has dramatically increased. In order to address these problems in CB-HRRS-IR, this paper proposes a novel approach using unsupervised feature learning and collaborative metric fusion. In [14], unsupervised multilayer feature learning is proposed for high-resolution remote sensing image scene classification. To make multiple complementary features effective in CB-HRRS-IR, we utilize the graph-based cross-diffusion model [19] to measure the similarity between the query image and the test image. The proposed similarity measure approach is named collaborative metric fusion because it can collaboratively exchange information from multiple feature spaces in the fusion process.

Unsupervised Feature Learning
Unsupervised
Collaborative Affinity Metric Fusion
Greedy Affinity Metric Fusion
Graph Construction
Affinity Metric Fusion via Cross-Diffusion
Experimental Results
Evaluation Dataset
Evaluation Criteria
Experiments on UCM Dataset
Comparisons among Different Single Features
Comparisons among Different Feature combinations are
Based on these feature proposed IRMFRCAMF
Comparisons Using Different Affinity Metric Fusion Methods
Fusion Method
Number Selection of the Nearest Neighbor Nodes
Comparisons
Experiments on WH Dataset
12. Class-level
Conclusions

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