Dynamic Graph-Level Neural Network for SAR Image Change Detection

Abstract

The graph neural network (GNN) has been widely applied to image analysis and recognition. Recently, a semisupervised graph convolutional network (ssGCN) method has been proposed to change detection and obtains promising performance on very-high-resolution remote sensing images. However, a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image is subject to speckle noise, and there is no explicit structure. In this letter, an end-to-end dynamic graph-level neural network (DGLNN) is proposed to exploit the local structure of each pixel neighborhood block at a graph level and learn a more discriminative graph for change detection. Moreover, in the training of DGLNN, a <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$K$ </tex-math></inline-formula> -nearest neighborhood is employed to reconstruct edges between nodes instead of the fixed edges between two nodes so that each node exploits the features from different neighbor nodes. The proposed method is verified by cross-domain SAR image change detection on four sets of SAR images and compared with five state-of-the-art deep-learning-based SAR image change detection methods. The overall experimental results show that the proposed DGLNN obtains outstanding performance.