Open Set Few-Shot Remote Sensing Scene Classification Based on a Multiorder Graph Convolutional Network and Domain Adaptation

Abstract

Few-shot scene classification aims to recognize task data, which consists of unlabeled data and a few annotated samples, given some labeled auxiliary data. The task and the auxiliary data often come from the same source with non-overlapping categories, such tasks are defined as closed set few-shot scene classification. However, most remote sensing applications involve open set few-shot scene classification, where the categories of the task and auxiliary data are often partly overlapped and sources of data are usually different (i.e., different domains). We propose an open set few-shot scene classification method called the multi-order graph convolutional network (MGCN) specifically for such tasks. MGCN solves the open set few-shot scene classification task in two ways: reducing the inter-domain discrepancy by a feature dispersion degree weighting domain adaptation method, and reducing the dispersion degree of node features by a proposed multi-order graph convolutional network. Based on a shallow backbone and an improved graph convolutional network, MGCN improves the classification performance of the open set few-shot classification task by utilizing information from common categories and reducing domain discrepancies. The experimental results, based on three public remote sensing image datasets and a Tibetan Plateau remote sensing scene dataset we collected, demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method on the open set few-shot scene classification task.