Imaging Science & Photographic Technology

Article Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications

Bidirectional Mapping Generative Adversarial Networks for Brain MR to PET Synthesis

Shengye Hu, Baiying Lei, Shuqiang Wang, Yong Wang, Zhiguang Feng, Yanyan Shen

Summary: This paper proposes a 3D end-to-end synthesis network called BMGAN for synthesizing PET images from brain MR images. The method utilizes a bidirectional mapping mechanism and employs a 3D Dense-UNet generator architecture and hybrid loss functions to generate high-quality cross-modality synthetic images while preserving the diverse brain structures of different subjects.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING (2022)

Article Geochemistry & Geophysics

Multi-Object Tracking in Satellite Videos With Graph-Based Multitask Modeling

Qibin He, Xian Sun, Zhiyuan Yan, Beibei Li, Kun Fu

Summary: This paper proposes an end-to-end online framework called TGraM for multi-object tracking in satellite videos. It also builds a large-scale satellite video dataset for experiments. Compared with existing multi-object trackers, TGraM achieves efficient collaborative learning between detection and reidentification, improving tracking accuracy.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING (2022)

Article Geochemistry & Geophysics

Mutual Attention Inception Network for Remote Sensing Visual Question Answering

Xiangtao Zheng, Binqiang Wang, Xingqian Du, Xiaoqiang Lu

Summary: This study introduces a method for remote sensing visual question answering (VQA) that considers the fusion of image features and question features, introducing convolutional features and word vectors, as well as attention mechanism and bilinear technique. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can capture the alignments between images and questions.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING (2022)

Article Geochemistry & Geophysics

Spectral-Spatial Transformer Network for Hyperspectral Image Classification: A Factorized Architecture Search Framework

Zilong Zhong, Ying Li, Lingfei Ma, Jonathan Li, Wei-Shi Zheng

Summary: This study introduces a novel spectral-spatial transformer network (SSTN) to overcome the limitations of convolution kernels and proposes a factorized architecture search (FAS) framework that focuses on finding optimal architecture settings without the need for bilevel optimization. Experimental results demonstrate the excellent performance of SSTNs on multiple HSI benchmark datasets.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING (2022)

Article Engineering, Electrical & Electronic

Efficient masked face recognition method during the COVID-19 pandemic

Walid Hariri

Summary: This paper proposes a reliable method for masked face recognition by removing occlusions, extracting deep features, and using Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) for classification, which shows high recognition performance on a real-world dataset compared to other state-of-the-art methods.

SIGNAL IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING (2022)

Article Geochemistry & Geophysics

RRNet: Relational Reasoning Network With Parallel Multiscale Attention for Salient Object Detection in Optical Remote Sensing Images

Runmin Cong, Yumo Zhang, Leyuan Fang, Jun Li, Yao Zhao, Sam Kwong

Summary: This article proposes a relational reasoning network (RRNet) with parallel multiscale attention (PMA) for salient object detection (SOD) in optical remote sensing images (RSIs). By integrating the spatial and channel dimensions and utilizing high-level encoder features, the RRNet infers semantic relationships and generates more complete detection results. The PMA module effectively restores detailed information and addresses scale variation of salient objects.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING (2022)

Article Geochemistry & Geophysics

Infrared Small Target Detection via Nonconvex Tensor Fibered Rank Approximation

Xuan Kong, Chunping Yang, Siying Cao, Chaohai Li, Zhenming Peng

Summary: This article proposes a new infrared patch-tensor (IPT) model to address the challenges of inaccurate background rank representation and poor robustness against noise and sparse interference. Experimental results demonstrate the robustness of the algorithm to noise and different scenes, and show significant superiority in detection performance compared with other methods.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING (2022)

Proceedings Paper Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence

Toward Fast, Flexible, and Robust Low-Light Image Enhancement

Long Ma, Tengyu Ma, Risheng Liu, Xin Fan, Zhongxuan Luo

Summary: This paper proposes a new Self-Calibrated Illumination (SCI) learning framework for enhancing image brightness in real-world low-light scenarios. The framework achieves a balance between computational efficiency and visual quality through cascaded illumination learning, weight sharing, and a self-calibrated module.

2022 IEEE/CVF CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION (CVPR 2022) (2022)

Article Geochemistry & Geophysics

Asymmetric Siamese Networks for Semantic Change Detection in Aerial Images

Kunping Yang, Gui-Song Xia, Zicheng Liu, Bo Du, Wen Yang, Marcello Pelillo, Liangpei Zhang

Summary: The article presents an asymmetric Siamese network (ASN) for locating and identifying semantic changes through feature pairs from modules of widely different structures to deal with distinct land-cover distributions at different times. The experimental results show that the proposed model can consistently outperform existing algorithms with varying encoder backbones.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING (2022)

Article Geochemistry & Geophysics

Hyperspectral Image Classification Based on Deep Attention Graph Convolutional Network

Jing Bai, Bixiu Ding, Zhu Xiao, Licheng Jiao, Hongyang Chen, Amelia C. Regan

Summary: This paper proposes a framework based on a deep attention graph convolutional network (DAGCN) to address the challenges of hyperspectral image classification. By integrating attention mechanism and designing deep graph convolutional networks, deep abstract features are extracted and the internal relationship between HSI data is explored, achieving superior classification results compared to the baselines.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING (2022)

Article Geochemistry & Geophysics

Adversarial Instance Augmentation for Building Change Detection in Remote Sensing Images

Hao Chen, Wenyuan Li, Zhenwei Shi

Summary: The article introduces a novel data augmentation method IAug to generate bitemporal images with diverse building changes using generative adversarial training. A simple yet effective CD model CDNet is proposed, achieving state-of-the-art results in building change detection.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING (2022)

Article Geochemistry & Geophysics

A Combined Loss-Based Multiscale Fully Convolutional Network for High-Resolution Remote Sensing Image Change Detection

Xinghua Li, Meizhen He, Huifang Li, Huanfeng Shen

Summary: This study proposes a method based on a multiscale fully convolutional neural network that effectively extracts detailed features of ground objects and addresses the issue of unbalanced samples, with experiments showing better performance in change detection tasks.

IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING LETTERS (2022)

Review Geochemistry & Geophysics

Motion Compensation/Autofocus in Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar: A Review

Jianlai Chen, Mengdao Xing, Hanwen Yu, Buge Liang, Jian Peng, Guang-Cai Sun

IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING MAGAZINE (2022)

Review Geography, Physical

UAV in the advent of the twenties: Where we stand and what is next

F. Nex, C. Armenakis, M. Cramer, D. A. Cucci, M. Gerke, E. Honkavaara, A. Kukko, C. Persello, J. Skaloud

Summary: This paper reviews best practices for the use of UAVs in remote sensing and mapping applications, emphasizes the need for interdisciplinary research, explores the future trends and impacts of UAVs in photogrammetry and remote sensing.

ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING (2022)

Article Environmental Sciences

Deep Learning-Based Change Detection in Remote Sensing Images: A Review

Ayesha Shafique, Guo Cao, Zia Khan, Muhammad Asad, Muhammad Aslam

Summary: This review discusses the importance of change detection in the context of remote sensing technology and the application of deep learning techniques. Deep learning has shown significant success in change detection, outperforming traditional methods, and is considered as the future direction of development.

REMOTE SENSING (2022)

Article Geochemistry & Geophysics

A Lightweight Faster R-CNN for Ship Detection in SAR Images

Yiding Li, Shunsheng Zhang, Wen-Qin Wang

Summary: A new and faster region-based convolutional neural network (R-CNN) detection method is proposed in this paper, with a new lightweight network design and the use of K-Means method to optimize the recognition of target scale. The proposed method shows significant improvements in both detection performance and speed.

IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING LETTERS (2022)

Article Geochemistry & Geophysics

Global and Local Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning for Semantic Segmentation of HR Remote Sensing Images

Haifeng Li, Yi Li, Guo Zhang, Ruoyun Liu, Haozhe Huang, Qing Zhu, Chao Tao

Summary: This study proposes a global style and local matching contrastive learning network (GLCNet) for remote sensing image (RSI) semantic segmentation. By using global style contrastive learning and local feature matching contrastive learning modules, the method achieves superior results compared to state-of-the-art methods and supervised learning methods on various RSI semantic segmentation datasets.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING (2022)

Article Environmental Sciences

NIRvP: A robust structural proxy for sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and photosynthesis across scales

Benjamin Dechant, Youngryel Ryu, Grayson Badgley, Philipp Kohler, Uwe Rascher, Mirco Migliavacca, Yongguang Zhang, Giulia Tagliabue, Kaiyu Guan, Micol Rossini, Yves Goulas, Yelu Zeng, Christian Frankenberg, Joseph A. Berry

Summary: Our study highlights the strong relationship between canopy structure and far-red SIF, indicating that the contribution of leaf physiology to SIF variability is small compared to structure and radiation components. The near-infrared reflectance of vegetation multiplied by incoming sunlight (NIRvP) emerges as a robust proxy for far-red SIF across different scales, showing potential for reliable vegetation monitoring at the global level.

REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT (2022)

Article Engineering, Electrical & Electronic

Progress and Challenges in Intelligent Remote Sensing Satellite Systems

Bing Zhang, Yuanfeng Wu, Boya Zhao, Jocelyn Chanussot, Danfeng Hong, Jing Yao, Lianru Gao

Summary: Due to advances in remote sensing satellite imaging and image processing technologies, intelligent remote sensing satellites have the potential to provide personalized, real-time, and accurate remote sensing information services. However, there are technological breakthroughs and legal challenges in the design of intelligent remote sensing satellites.

IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN APPLIED EARTH OBSERVATIONS AND REMOTE SENSING (2022)

Article Geochemistry & Geophysics

Generative Adversarial Minority Oversampling for SpectralSpatial Hyperspectral Image Classification

Swalpa Kumar Roy, Juan M. Haut, Mercedes E. Paoletti, Shiv Ram Dubey, Antonio Plaza

Summary: This article proposes a new 3D-HyperGAMO model to address the issue of imbalanced data in hyperspectral image (HSI) classification. The model uses generative adversarial minority oversampling to automatically generate more samples for minority classes during training, significantly improving the classification performance.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING (2022)