Minjie Wan, Xiaobo Ye, Xiaojie Zhang, Yunkai Xu, G. Gu, Qian Chen
{"title":"Infrared Small Target Tracking via Gaussian Curvature-Based Compressive Convolution Feature Extraction","authors":"Minjie Wan, Xiaobo Ye, Xiaojie Zhang, Yunkai Xu, G. Gu, Qian Chen","doi":"10.1109/LGRS.2021.3051183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2021.3051183","url":null,"abstract":"The precision of infrared (IR) small target tracking is seriously limited due to lack of texture information and interference of background clutter. The key issue of robust tracking is to exploit generic feature representations of IR small targets under different types of background. In this letter, we present a new IR small target tracking method via compressive convolution feature (CCF) extraction. First, a Gaussian curvature-based feature map is calculated to suppress clutters so that the contrast between target and background can be obviously improved. Then, a three-layer compressive convolutional network, which consists of a simple layer, a compressive layer, and a complex layer, is designed to represent each candidate target by a CCF vector. Based on the proposed mechanism of feature extraction, a support vector machine (SVM) classifier with continuous probabilistic output is trained to compute the likelihood probability of each candidate. Finally, the long-term tracking for IR small target is implemented under the framework of the inverse sparse representation-based particle filter. Both qualitative and quantitative experiments based on real IR sequences verify that our method can achieve more satisfactory performances in terms of precision and robustness compared with other typical visual trackers.","PeriodicalId":13046,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters","volume":"26 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2021-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1109/LGRS.2021.3051183","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62476742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lei Zhang, Hong Yu, Zhenzhan Wang, X. Yin, Liang Yang, Hua-dong Du, Bin Li, Y. Wang, Wu Zhou
{"title":"Evaluation of the Initial Sea Surface Temperature From the HY-2B Scanning Microwave Radiometer","authors":"Lei Zhang, Hong Yu, Zhenzhan Wang, X. Yin, Liang Yang, Hua-dong Du, Bin Li, Y. Wang, Wu Zhou","doi":"10.1109/LGRS.2020.2968635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2020.2968635","url":null,"abstract":"Haiyang-2B (HY-2B) is the second marine dynamic environment satellite of China. Sea surface temperature (SST) products from the scanning microwave radiometer (SMR) onboard HY-2B satellite are evaluated against in situ measurements. Approximately, ten months of data are used for the initial evaluation, from January 15, 2019 to November 15, 2019. The temporal and spatial windows for collocation are 30 min and 25 km, respectively, which produce 450 416 matchup pairs between HY-2B/SMR and in situ SSTs. The statistical comparison of the entire data set shows that the mean bias is −0.13 °C (SMR minus buoy), and the corresponding root-mean-square error (RMSE) is 1.06 °C. Time series of collocations for the SST difference shows that a good agreement is found between HY-2B/SMR and in situ SSTs after June 15, revealing a mean bias and an RMSE of only 0.09 °C and 0.72 °C, respectively. A three-way error analysis is conducted between the SMR, Global Precipitation Measurement Microwave Imager (GMI), and in situ SSTs. Individual standard deviations are found to be 0.41 °C for the GMI SST, 0.15 °C for the in situ SST, and 1.03 °C for the SMR SST. The results indicate that the HY2B/SMR SST products need to be improved during the period from January 15, 2019 to June 15, 2019.","PeriodicalId":13046,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters","volume":"18 1","pages":"137-141"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1109/LGRS.2020.2968635","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62473216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kirsch Direction Template Despeckling Algorithm of High-Resolution SAR Images-Based on Structural Information Detection","authors":"S. Hou, Zengguo Sun, Liu Yang, Yunjing Song","doi":"10.1109/LGRS.2020.2966369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2020.2966369","url":null,"abstract":"In order to overcome the drawback of the traditional Kirsch template despeckling usings fixed windows, an improved Kirsch direction template despeckling algorithm, based on structural information detection, is proposed for high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. First, the point targets are detected and preserved in the current region. Second, the window is enlarged adaptively based on the statistical characteristics of the local region. Finally, the window finally obtained is classified. The averaged filter is directly adopted if the region is homogeneous, or else the Kirsch template filter is used. Combining point target detection, adaptive windowing, and region classification, altogether the proposed algorithm can effectively improve the performance of the traditional Kirsch direction template despeckling. Despeckling experiments on simulated and real high-resolution SAR images demonstrate that the Kirsch direction template despeckling algorithm based on structural information detection can not only sufficiently suppress speckle in homogenous and edge regions, but also effectively preserve point targets and edge information, leading to good despeckling results.","PeriodicalId":13046,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters","volume":"18 1","pages":"177-181"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1109/LGRS.2020.2966369","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62472413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ship Detection and Direction Finding Based on Time-Frequency Analysis for Compact HF Radar","authors":"Jiajia Cai, Hao Zhou, Weimin Huang, B. Wen","doi":"10.1109/LGRS.2020.2967387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2020.2967387","url":null,"abstract":"Ship detection at the sea surface is important for improving human marine activities. Most existing ship detection methods for high-frequency surface wave radar (HFSWR) are based on peak and constant false alarm rate (CFAR) detection and require a coherent integration time (CIT) of several minutes. However, in such a long period, the target may not be stationary. To account for the nonstationary property, a time-frequency analysis (TFA)-based ship detection and direction finding (DF) method is proposed for HFSWR. Target ridges on the TF representation (TFR) of the echo data are detected first. Next, array snapshots are formed by sampling the extracted ridges and are used to estimate the direction of arrival (DOA). The processing results of the radar data collected at Dongshan, Fujian Province, China, show that the proposed method outperforms the CFAR method with both increased detection rates and decreased DF errors, especially under relatively low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) scenarios.","PeriodicalId":13046,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters","volume":"18 1","pages":"72-76"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1109/LGRS.2020.2967387","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62473135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhi He, Q. Shi, Kai Liu, Jingjing Cao, Wen Zhan, B. Cao
{"title":"Object-Oriented Mangrove Species Classification Using Hyperspectral Data and 3-D Siamese Residual Network","authors":"Zhi He, Q. Shi, Kai Liu, Jingjing Cao, Wen Zhan, B. Cao","doi":"10.1109/LGRS.2019.2962723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2019.2962723","url":null,"abstract":"Mangrove species classification is of particular importance for coastal conservation and restoration. However, it is challenging to distinguish species-level differences with limited training data. In this letter, we propose an object-oriented classification method for mangrove forests by using the hyperspectral image (HSI) and the 3-D Siamese residual network. First, superpixel segmentation is utilized to obtain objects with various shapes and scales. Second, 3-D patches of each object are extracted from the original HSI, and those patches containing training samples are adopted to pairwise train the network. The 3-D spatial pyramid pooling (3-D-SPP) is added in the network to extract features in multiple scales. Finally, the abstract features of test samples are learned by the trained network, and the labels are determined by the nearest neighbor classifier within the metric space. Experiments on real mangrove hyperspectral data demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in species classification of mangroves.","PeriodicalId":13046,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters","volume":"17 1","pages":"2150-2154"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1109/LGRS.2019.2962723","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45575045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mingming Xu, Yan Zhang, Yanguo Fan, Yanlong Chen, Dongmei Song
{"title":"Linear Spectral Mixing Model-Guided Artificial Bee Colony Method for Endmember Generation","authors":"Mingming Xu, Yan Zhang, Yanguo Fan, Yanlong Chen, Dongmei Song","doi":"10.1109/LGRS.2019.2961502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2019.2961502","url":null,"abstract":"Endmember extraction (EE) is one important step in hyperspectral unmixing. However, some EE methods under pure-pixel assumption may work badly for highly mixed data due to the complexity of image data. In this work, we propose a linear spectral mixing model-guided artificial bee colony (LSMM-ABC) method for EE to solve the problem under a highly mixed situation. The main innovative point of this work is that each employed bee in LSMM-ABC searches food source position guided by the LSMM, rather than with a neighbor food source position. What is more, this proposed LSMM-ABC is not confined to the pure-pixel assumption. The LSMM could help employed bees to find a better solution in endmember generation based on the ABC algorithm. Experimental results on both synthetic and real Cuprite data sets show us that the proposed LSMM-ABC method can improve the overall EE accuracy compared with the EE methods for highly mixed data.","PeriodicalId":13046,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters","volume":"17 1","pages":"2145-2149"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1109/LGRS.2019.2961502","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48077157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bangyu Wu, Delin Meng, Lingling Wang, Naihao Liu, Ying Wang
{"title":"Seismic Impedance Inversion Using Fully Convolutional Residual Network and Transfer Learning","authors":"Bangyu Wu, Delin Meng, Lingling Wang, Naihao Liu, Ying Wang","doi":"10.1109/LGRS.2019.2963106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2019.2963106","url":null,"abstract":"In this letter, we use a fully convolutional residual network (FCRN) for seismic impedance inversion. After training with appropriate data, the FCRN can effectively predict impedance with high accuracy, and have good robustness against noise and phase difference. However, it cannot give acceptable results in training and predicting models with different geological features. Transfer learning is later introduced to ease this problem. Marmousi2 and Overthrust models are used to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. Tests show that after fine-tuned by five traces of Overthrust model, the FCRN trained on the Marmousi2 model can give a comparable result similarly predicted by the FCRN trained purely on the Overthrust model.","PeriodicalId":13046,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters","volume":"17 1","pages":"2140-2144"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1109/LGRS.2019.2963106","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46768455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xu Chen, H. Sui, Jian Fang, Mingting Zhou, Chen Wu
{"title":"A Novel AMS-DAT Algorithm for Moving Vehicle Detection in a Satellite Video","authors":"Xu Chen, H. Sui, Jian Fang, Mingting Zhou, Chen Wu","doi":"10.1109/lgrs.2020.3034677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/lgrs.2020.3034677","url":null,"abstract":"Satellite videos have recently served as a new data source for a wide range of applications in traffic management and military surveillance. Due to its wider coverage, satellite videos show more advantages in large-scale monitoring than ground surveillance videos. However, pseudomotion background and low-resolution targets pose new challenges to moving vehicle detection in satellite videos, resulting in poor performance of conventional target detection methods when applied to satellite videos. To overcome this difficulty, we propose a novel moving vehicle detection approach using adaptive motion separation and difference accumulated trajectory. Specifically, a new indicator is designed to assist adaptive separation of moving targets and background, considering the scale invariance of vehicles in satellite videos. Meanwhile, we offer a vehicle discrimination algorithm based on a differential accumulated trajectory to distinguish the moving vehicles from the pseudomotion background. Experimental results on two satellite video data sets demonstrate that the proposed approach achieves better detection performance over the state-of-the-art moving vehicle detection methods.","PeriodicalId":13046,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters","volume":"36 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2020-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1109/lgrs.2020.3034677","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62474385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fernando Darío Almeida García, H. Mora, G. Fraidenraich, J. Filho
{"title":"Square-Law Detection of Exponential Targets in Weibull-Distributed Ground Clutter","authors":"Fernando Darío Almeida García, H. Mora, G. Fraidenraich, J. Filho","doi":"10.1109/lgrs.2020.3009304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/lgrs.2020.3009304","url":null,"abstract":"Modern radar systems use square-law detectors to search and track fluctuating targets embedded in Weibull-distributed ground clutter. However, the theoretical performance analysis of square-law detectors in the presence of Weibull clutter leads to cumbersome mathematical formulations. Some studies have circumvented this problem by using approximations or mathematical artifacts to simplify calculations. In this work, we derive a closed-form and exact expression for the probability of detection (PD) of a square-law detector in the presence of exponential targets and Weibull-distributed ground clutter, given in terms of the Fox H-function. Unlike previous studies, no approximations nor simplifying assumptions are made throughout our analysis. Furthermore, we derive a fast convergent series for the referred PD by exploiting the orthogonal selection of poles in Cauchy’s residue theorem. In passing, we also obtain closed-form solutions and series representations for the probability density function and the cumulative distribution function of the sum statistics that govern the output of a square-law detector. Numerical results and Monte Carlo simulations corroborate the validity of our expressions.","PeriodicalId":13046,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters","volume":"18 1","pages":"1956-1960"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2020-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1109/lgrs.2020.3009304","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46449550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Cokriging, Neural Networks, and Spatial Blind Source Separation for Multivariate Spatial Prediction","authors":"C. Muehlmann, K. Nordhausen, Mengxi Yi","doi":"10.1109/LGRS.2020.3011549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2020.3011549","url":null,"abstract":"Multivariate measurements taken at irregularly sampled locations are a common form of data, for example, in geochemical analysis of soil. In practical considerations, predictions of these measurements at unobserved locations are of great interest. For standard multivariate spatial prediction methods it is mandatory to not only model spatial dependencies but also cross-dependencies which makes it a demanding task. Recently, a blind source separation (BSS) approach for spatial data was suggested. When using this spatial BSS (SBSS) method before the actual spatial prediction, modeling of spatial cross-dependencies is avoided, which in turn simplifies the spatial prediction task significantly. In this letter, we investigate the use of SBSS as a preprocessing tool for spatial prediction and compare it with predictions from Cokriging and neural networks in an extensive simulation study as well as a geochemical data set.","PeriodicalId":13046,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters","volume":"18 1","pages":"1931-1935"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1109/LGRS.2020.3011549","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47829030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}