VHR image change detection based on discriminative dictionary learning

Abstract

The difficulty of Very High Resolution (VHR) image change detection is mainly due to the low separability between the changed and unchanged class. The traditional approaches usually address the problem by solving the feature extraction and classification separately, which cannot ensure that the classification algorithm makes the best use of the features. Considering this, we propose a novel approach that combines the feature extraction and the classification task by utilizing the sparse representation algorithm with discriminative dictionary. Experiments on real data sets show that our method achieves effective results.