A Semi-Supervised Deep Rule-Based Approach for Complex Satellite Sensor Image Analysis

Gu, Xiaowei and Angelov, Plamen and Zhang, Ce and Atkinson, Peter (2022) A Semi-Supervised Deep Rule-Based Approach for Complex Satellite Sensor Image Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 44 (5). pp. 2281-2292. ISSN 0162-8828

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Abstract

Large-scale (large-area), fine spatial resolution satellite sensor images are valuable data sources for Earth observation while not yet fully exploited by research communities for practical applications. Often, such images exhibit highly complex geometrical structures and spatial patterns, and distinctive characteristics of multiple land-use categories may appear at the same region. Autonomous information extraction from these images is essential in the field of pattern recognition within remote sensing, but this task is extremely challenging due to the spectral and spatial complexity captured in satellite sensor imagery. In this research, a semi-supervised deep rule-based approach for satellite sensor image analysis (SeRBIA) is proposed, where large-scale satellite sensor images are analysed autonomously and classified into detailed land-use categories. Using an ensemble feature descriptor derived from pre-trained AlexNet and VGG-VD-16 models, SeRBIA is capable of learning continuously from both labelled and unlabelled images through self-adaptation without human involvement or intervention. Extensive numerical experiments were conducted on both benchmark datasets and real-world satellite sensor images to comprehensively test the validity and effectiveness of the proposed method. The novel information mining technique developed here can be applied to analyse large-scale satellite sensor images with high accuracy and interpretability, across a wide range of real-world applications.

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IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
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Subjects:
?? DEEP RULE-BASED SYSTEMDEEP LEARNINGSATELLITE SENSOR IMAGE ANALYSISSEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNINGARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCECOMPUTATIONAL THEORY AND MATHEMATICSSOFTWAREAPPLIED MATHEMATICSCOMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION ??
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149532
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30 Nov 2020 15:35
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