The traditional generative adversarial network (GAN) is widely used in the field of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ground target image generation. However, GAN has the problem of unstable gradient update, which can easily cause the loss of image feature information, resulting in a low similarity between the generated image and the real image. To solve these problems, we propose an improved Wasserstein GAN with gradient penalty (IWGAN-GP), which introduces dense connection in the generator, integrates feature information at different levels to achieve feature reuse, and alleviates the gradient disappearance problem caused by deep networks. Moreover, by introducing the squeeze-and-excitation (SE) module into the densely connected network, on the basis of considering high-level semantic information and low-level geometric texture details, the optimal fusion weights of each channel can be automatically obtained to fully explore important target information in SAR images. IWGAN-GP alleviates the gradient disappearance caused by the depth of the network, strengthens feature propagation, and realizes feature reuse. It can automatically obtain the optimal fusion weight of each channel and improve the similarity between the generated image and the real image. The superiority of IWGAN-GP is verified on the datasets of MSTAR.
Semisupervised graph learning has a broad prospect in remote sensing (RS) image change detection. However, an improper graph model may result in a contradiction between the detection accuracy and computational efficiency. In order to effectively extract the structural information of changes and heavily reduce the computational burden, we propose a hybrid graphical model (HGM) for bitemporal RS image change detection. The HGM utilizes the hybrid superpixels (HSPs) as its vertices, and a hybrid graph kernel (HGK) function is proposed for measuring the similarities between the vertices. The HSPs are composed of the background superpixels and foreground isolated pixels of a subtraction image. The HGM effectively exploits the image structures, and the small graph size dramatically reduces the computational complexity. Moreover, the piecewise HGK function well detects the structures of the changed areas and heavily resists the background disturbances. A semisupervised label propagation algorithm is implemented with the HGK matrix for obtaining the final change detection results. Experimental results on real RS images demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed method and prove that it is a good candidate for RS image change detection.
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