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A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "AI Remote Sensing".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 August 2024 | Viewed by 8648

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Prof. Dr. Yansheng Li

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School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
Interests: knowledge graph; deep learning; big data mining
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Dr. Xu Tang

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School of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China
Interests: remote sensing image processing; machine learning
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Dr. Tian Tian

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School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
Interests: remote sensing image classification; object detection and recognition; multispectral image processing

Dr. Zhihui Zhu

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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Denver, Denver, CO 80208, USA
Interests: data science; machine learning; signal processing; optimization
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Dear Colleagues,

As well known, the current remote sensing data acquisition capability can fully meet the requirements of various applications, but the extraction of useful information from remote sensing big data still requires a large research effort. The emerging deep learning methodologies have been introduced in the remote sensing community to mine data, information and knowledge from remote sensing big data, and have achieved better performance than the traditional handcrafted feature-based methods and shallow neural networks. However, there is still a barrier that hinders the use of deep learning in remote sensing applications. One of the major challenges is related to the generation of high-quality labels for samples to be used for the training of deep learning algorithms. Weakly supervised deep learning (WSDL) is a promising solution to address this problem as WSDL can utilize greedily labeled datasets that are easy to collect but not ideal to complete deep network training. To systematically promote cost-effective information extraction from remote sensing big data, this Special Issue aims to collect the achievements around remote sensing big data mining based on WSDL.

This Special Issue aims to collect and discuss various applications of remote sensing big data with WSDL. The Special Issue may cover but is not limited to the following topics: WSDL theory; WSDL-driven remote sensing image retrieval, WSDL-driven remote sensing image object detection, WSDL-driven remote sensing image classification, WSDL-driven remote sensing change detection, and so forth.

Articles may address, but are not limited to, the following topics:

Deep learning under coarse labels
Deep learning under noisy labels
Knowledge graph-guided deep learning
WSDL-driven remote sensing image retrieval
WSDL-driven remote sensing image classification
WSDL-driven remote sensing image object detection
WSDL-driven remote sensing image change detection
WSDL-driven remote sensing image vectorization

Dr. Yansheng Li
Dr. Xu Tang
Dr. Tian Tian
Dr. Zhihui Zhu
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Keywords

deep learning under coarse labels
deep learning under noisy labels
knowledge graph-guided deep learning
remote sensing image retrieval
remote sensing image classification
remote sensing image segmentation
remote sensing image object detection
remote sensing image change detection
remote sensing image vectorization

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Remote Sensing and Deep Learning to Understand Noisy OpenStreetMap

by Munazza Usmani, Francesca Bovolo and Maurizio Napolitano

Remote Sens. 2023, 15(18), 4639; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/rs15184639 - 21 Sep 2023

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The OpenStreetMap (OSM) project is an open-source, community-based, user-generated street map/data service. It is the most popular project within the state of the art for crowdsourcing. Although geometrical features and tags of annotations in OSM are usually precise (particularly in metropolitan areas), there are instances where volunteer mapping is inaccurate. Despite the appeal of using OSM semantic information with remote sensing images, to train deep learning models, the crowdsourced data quality is inconsistent. High-resolution remote sensing image segmentation is a mature application in many fields, such as urban planning, updated mapping, city sensing, and others. Typically, supervised methods trained with annotated data may learn to anticipate the object location, but misclassification may occur due to noise in training data. This article combines Very High Resolution (VHR) remote sensing data with computer vision methods to deal with noisy OSM. This work deals with OSM misalignment ambiguity (positional inaccuracy) concerning satellite imagery and uses a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) approach to detect missing buildings in OSM. We propose a translating method to align the OSM vector data with the satellite data. This strategy increases the correlation between the imagery and the building vector data to reduce the noise in OSM data. A series of experiments demonstrate that our approach plays a significant role in (1) resolving the misalignment issue, (2) instance-semantic segmentation of buildings with missing building information in OSM (never labeled or constructed in between image acquisitions), and (3) change detection mapping. The good results of precision (0.96) and recall (0.96) demonstrate the viability of high-resolution satellite imagery and OSM for building detection/change detection using a deep learning approach. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Weakly Supervised Deep Learning in Exploiting Remote Sensing Big Data)

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Meta-Knowledge Guided Weakly Supervised Instance Segmentation for Optical and SAR Image Interpretation

by Man Chen, Yao Zhang, Enping Chen, Yahao Hu, Yifei Xie and Zhisong Pan

Remote Sens. 2023, 15(9), 2357; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/rs15092357 - 29 Apr 2023

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The interpretation of optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images in remote sensing is general for many tasks, such as environmental monitoring, marine management, and resource planning. Instance segmentation of optical and SAR images, which can simultaneously provide instance-level localization and pixel-level classification of objects of interest, is a crucial and challenging task in image interpretation. Considering that most current methods for instance segmentation of optical and SAR images rely on expensive pixel-level annotation, we develop a weakly supervised instance segmentation (WSIS) method to balance the visual processing requirements with the annotation cost. First, we decompose the prior knowledge of the mask-aware task in WSIS into three meta-knowledge components: fundamental knowledge, apparent knowledge, and detailed knowledge inspired by human visual perception habits of “whole to part” and “coarse to detailed.” Then, a meta-knowledge-guided weakly supervised instance segmentation network (MGWI-Net) is proposed. In this network, the weakly supervised mask (WSM) head can instantiate both fundamental knowledge and apparent knowledge to perform mask awareness without any annotations at the pixel level. The network also includes a mask information awareness assist (MIAA) head, which can implicitly guide the network to learn detailed information about edges through the boundary-sensitive feature of the fully connected conditional random field (CRF), facilitating the instantiation of detailed knowledge. The experimental results show that the MGWI-Net can efficiently generate instance masks for optical and SAR images and achieve the approximate instance segmentation results of the fully supervised method with about one-eighth of the annotation production time. The model parameters and processing speed of our network are also competitive. This study can provide inexpensive and convenient technical support for applying and promoting instance segmentation methods for optical and SAR images. Full article

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Leveraging Self-Paced Semi-Supervised Learning with Prior Knowledge for 3D Object Detection on a LiDAR-Camera System

by Pei An, Junxiong Liang, Xing Hong, Siwen Quan, Tao Ma, Yanfei Chen, Liheng Wang and Jie Ma

Remote Sens. 2023, 15(3), 627; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/rs15030627 - 20 Jan 2023

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Three dimensional (3D) object detection with an optical camera and light detection and ranging (LiDAR) is an essential task in the field of mobile robot and autonomous driving. The current 3D object detection method is based on deep learning and is data-hungry. Recently, semi-supervised 3D object detection (SSOD-3D) has emerged as a technique to alleviate the shortage of labeled samples. However, it is still a challenging problem for SSOD-3D to learn 3D object detection from noisy pseudo labels. In this paper, to dynamically filter the unreliable pseudo labels, we first introduce a self-paced SSOD-3D method SPSL-3D. It exploits self-paced learning to automatically adjust the reliability weight of the pseudo label based on its 3D object detection loss. To evaluate the reliability of the pseudo label in accuracy, we present prior knowledge based SPSL-3D (named as PSPSL-3D) to enhance the SPSL-3D with the semantic and structure information provided by a LiDAR-camera system. Extensive experimental results in the public KITTI dataset demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed SPSL-3D and PSPSL-3D. Full article

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A Review of GAN-Based Super-Resolution Reconstruction for Optical Remote Sensing Images

by Xuan Wang, Lijun Sun, Abdellah Chehri and Yongchao Song

Remote Sens. 2023, 15(20), 5062; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/rs15205062 - 21 Oct 2023

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High-resolution images have a wide range of applications in image compression, remote sensing, medical imaging, public safety, and other fields. The primary objective of super-resolution reconstruction of images is to reconstruct a given low-resolution image into a corresponding high-resolution image by a specific algorithm. With the emergence and swift advancement of generative adversarial networks (GANs), image super-resolution reconstruction is experiencing a new era of progress. Unfortunately, there has been a lack of comprehensive efforts to bring together the advancements made in the field of super-resolution reconstruction using generative adversarial networks. Hence, this paper presents a comprehensive overview of the super-resolution image reconstruction technique that utilizes generative adversarial networks. Initially, we examine the operational principles of generative adversarial networks, followed by an overview of the relevant research and background information on reconstructing remote sensing images through super-resolution techniques. Next, we discuss significant research on generative adversarial networks in high-resolution image reconstruction. We cover various aspects, such as datasets, evaluation criteria, and conventional models used for image reconstruction. Subsequently, the super-resolution reconstruction models based on generative adversarial networks are categorized based on whether the kernel blurring function is recognized and utilized during training. We provide a brief overview of the utilization of generative adversarial network models in analyzing remote sensing imagery. In conclusion, we present a prospective analysis of forthcoming research directions pertaining to super-resolution reconstruction methods that rely on generative adversarial networks. Full article

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