Deep forest-based model for detecting changes in remote sensing images
GE Lihua1,2(), WANG Peng3,4(), ZHANG Yanqin1, ZHAO Shuanglin5
1. College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 211106, China 2. Hebei Key Laboratory of Resource and Environmental Disaster Mechanism and Risk Monitoring, Langfang 065201, China 3. Key Laboratory of Airborne Geophysics and Remote Sensing Geology, Ministry of Natural Resources, Beijing 100083, China 4. Shenzhen Research Institute, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Shenzhen 518110, China 5. Hunan Institute of Geological Disaster Investigation and Monitoring, Changsha 416099, China
The deep learning-based models currently available for detecting changes in remote sensing images face several challenges, including limited multi-granularity, poor classification performance of networks, high sensitivity to parameters, and great efforts in parameter adjustment. To address these challenges, this study proposed a deep forest-based model for detecting changes in remote sensing images. Initially, preliminary results were determined using a basic change detection method. Then, the results were optimized using the multi-granularity scanning characteristics and strong data classification of deep forest sub-networks. In this manner, the final change detection results were obtained. Verification experiments conducted on the LEVIR-CD and SYSU-CD datasets using various common change detection models indicated that the proposed deep forest-based model significantly outperformed other models in terms of precision, F1 score, and recall. Additionally, the proposed model exhibited strong adaptability on small datasets, as verified by loss function comparison, small-sample experiments, and ablation studies. This adaptability can reduce the complexity of parameter adjustment and address the issues that other deep learning sub-networks fail to be applicable to medium and small datasets.
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