Multi-Domain Fusion Graph Network for Semi-Supervised PolSAR Image Classification

Abstract

The expensive acquisition of labeled data limits the practical use of supervised learning on polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) image analysis. Semi-supervised learning has attracted considerable attention as it can utilize few labeled data and very many unlabeled data. The scattering response of PolSAR data is strongly spatial distribution dependent, which provides rich information about land-cover properties. In this paper, we propose a semi-supervised learning method named multi-domain fusion graph network (MDFGN) to explore the multi-domain fused features including spatial domain and feature domain. Three major factors strengthen the proposed method for PolSAR image analysis. Firstly, we propose a novel sample selection criterion to select reliable unlabeled data for training set expansion. Multi-domain fusion graph is proposed to improve the feature diversity by extending the sample selection from the feature domain to the spatial-feature fusion domain. In this way, the selecting accuracy is improved. By few labeled data, very many accurate unlabeled data are obtained. Secondly, multi-model triplet encoder is proposed to achieve superior feature extraction. Equipped with triplet loss, limited training samples are fully utilized. For expanding training samples with different patch sizes, multiple models are obtained for the fused classification result acquisition. Thirdly, multi-level fusion strategy is proposed to apply different image patch sizes for different expanded training data and obtain the fused classification result. The experiments are conducted on Radarsat-2 and AIRSAR images. With few labeled samples (about 0.003–0.007%), the overall accuracy of the proposed method ranges between 94.78% and 99.24%, which demonstrates the proposed method’s robustness and excellence.