Discriminative Adaptation Regularization Framework-Based Transfer Learning for Ship Classification in SAR Images

Ship classification in synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) images is of great significance for dealing with various marine matters. Although traditional supervised learning methods have recently achieved dramatic successes, but they are limited by the insufficient labeled training data. This letter prese...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE geoscience and remote sensing letters 2019-11, Vol.16 (11), p.1786-1790
Hauptverfasser: Xu, Yongjie, Lang, Haitao, Niu, Lihui, Ge, Chenguang
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Ship classification in synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) images is of great significance for dealing with various marine matters. Although traditional supervised learning methods have recently achieved dramatic successes, but they are limited by the insufficient labeled training data. This letter presents a novel unsupervised domain adaptation (DA) method, termed as discriminative adaptation regularization framework-based transfer learning (D-ARTL), to address the problem in case that there is no labeled training data available at all in the SAR image domain, i.e., target domain (TD). D-ARTL improves the original ARTL by adding a novel source discriminative information preservation (SDIP) regularization term. This improvement achieves an efficient transfer of interclass discriminative ability from source domain (SD) to TD, while achieving the alignment of cross-domain distributions. Extensive experiments have verified that D-ARTL outperforms state-of-the-art methods on the task of ship classification in SAR images by transferring the automatic identification system (AIS) information.
ISSN:1545-598X
1558-0571
DOI:10.1109/LGRS.2019.2907139