Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING
Volume 54, Issue 2, Pages 892-904Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2015.2469138
Keywords
Content-based image retrieval (CBIR); image information mining; kernel-based hashing; remote sensing (RS)
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- European Space Agency
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Large-scale remote sensing (RS) image search and retrieval have recently attracted great attention, due to the rapid evolution of satellite systems, that results in a sharp growing of image archives. An exhaustive search through linear scan from such archives is time demanding and not scalable in operational applications. To overcome such a problem, this paper introduces hashing-based approximate nearest neighbor search for fast and accurate image search and retrieval in large RS data archives. The hashing aims at mapping high-dimensional image feature vectors into compact binary hash codes, which are indexed into a hash table that enables real-time search and accurate retrieval. Such binary hash codes can also significantly reduce the amount of memory required for storing the RS images in the auxiliary archives. In particular, in this paper, we introduce in RS two kernel-based nonlinear hashing methods. The first hashing method defines hash functions in the kernel space by using only unlabeled images, while the second method leverages on the semantic similarity extracted by annotated images to describe much distinctive hash functions in the kernel space. The effectiveness of considered hashing methods is analyzed in terms of RS image retrieval accuracy and retrieval time. Experiments carried out on an archive of aerial images point out that the presented hashing methods are much faster, while keeping a similar (or even higher) retrieval accuracy, than those typically used in RS, which exploit an exact nearest neighbor search.
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