1 July 2020 Lightweight convolutional neural network for bitemporal SAR image change detection
Rongfang Wang, Fan Ding, Licheng Jiao, Jia-Wei Chen, Bo Liu, Wenping Ma, Mi Wang
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Abstract

Recently, many convolutional neural networks (CNN) have been successfully employed in bitemporal synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image change detection. However, most of the existing networks are too heavy and occupy a large volume of memory for storage and calculation. Motivated by this, we propose a lightweight neural network to reduce the computational and spatial complexity and facilitate the change detection on an edge device. We replace normal convolutional layers with bottleneck layers that keep the same number of channels between input and output. Next, we employ dilated convolutional kernels with a few non-zero entries that reduce the running time in convolutional operators. Comparing with the conventional convolutional neural network, our lightweight neural network will be more efficient with fewer parameters. We verify our light-weighted neural network on four sets of bitemporal SAR images. The experimental results show that the proposed network can obtain better performance than the conventional CNN and has better model generalization, especially on the challenging datasets with complex scenes.

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Rongfang Wang, Fan Ding, Licheng Jiao, Jia-Wei Chen, Bo Liu, Wenping Ma, and Mi Wang "Lightweight convolutional neural network for bitemporal SAR image change detection," Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 14(3), 036501 (1 July 2020). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.14.036501
Received: 14 April 2020; Accepted: 19 June 2020; Published: 1 July 2020
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KEYWORDS
Synthetic aperture radar

Convolutional neural networks

Convolution

Neural networks

Computer programming

Visualization

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