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Frequency filtering is widely used in routine processing of seismic data to improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of recorded signals and by doing so to improve subsequent analyses. In this paper, we develop a new denoising/decomposition method, DeepDenoiser, based on a deep neural network. This network is able to simultaneously learn a sparse representation of data in the time–frequency domain and a non-linear function that maps this representation into masks that decompose input data into a signal of interest and noise (defined as any non-seismic signal). We show that DeepDenoiser achieves impressive denoising of seismic signals even when the signal and noise share a common frequency band. Because the noise statistics are automatically learned from data and require no assumptions, our method properly handles white noise, a variety of colored noise, and non-earthquake signals. DeepDenoiser can significantly improve the SNR with minimal changes in the waveform shape of interest, even in the presence of high noise levels. We demonstrate the effect of our method on improving earthquake detection. There are clear applications of DeepDenoiser to seismic imaging, micro-seismic monitoring, and preprocessing of ambient noise data. We also note that the potential applications of our approach are not limited to these applications or even to earthquake data and that our approach can be adapted to diverse signals and applications in other settings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recently, deep neural networks have received intense interests in polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) image classification. However, its success is subject to the availability of large amounts of annotated data which require great efforts of experienced human annotators. Aiming at improving the classification performance with greatly reduced annotation cost, this paper presents an active deep learning approach for minimally supervised PolSAR image classification, which integrates active learning and fine-tuned convolutional neural network (CNN) into a principled framework. Starting from a CNN trained using a very limited number of labeled pixels, we iteratively and actively select the most informative candidates for annotation, and incrementally fine-tune the CNN by incorporating the newly annotated pixels. Moreover, to boost the performance and robustness of the proposed method, we employ Markov random field (MRF) to enforce class label smoothness, and data augmentation technique to enlarge the training set. We conducted extensive experiments on four real benchmark PolSAR images, and experiments demonstrated that our approach achieved state-of-the-art classification results with significantly reduced annotation cost. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aiming at improving the classification accuracy with limited numbers of labeled pixels in polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) image classification task, this paper presents a graph-based semisupervised deep learning model for PolSAR image classification. It models the PolSAR image as an undirected graph, where the nodes correspond to the labeled and unlabeled pixels, and the weighted edges represent similarities between the pixels. Upon the graph, we design an energy function incorporating a semisupervision term, a convolutional neural network (CNN) term, and a pairwise smoothness term. The employed CNN extracts abstract and data-driven polarimetric features and outputs class label predictions to the graph model. The semisupervision term enforces the category label constraints on the human-labeled pixels. The pairwise smoothness term encourages class label smoothness and the alignment of class label boundaries with the image edges. Starting from an initialized class label map generated based on $K$ -Wishart distribution hypothesis or superpixel segmentation of PauliRGB images, we iteratively and alternately optimize the defined energy function until it converges. We conducted experiments on two real benchmark PolSAR images, and extensive experiments demonstrated that our approach achieved the state-of-the-art results for PolSAR image classification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is a feasible and promising way to utilize deep neural networks to learn and extract valuable features from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images for SAR automatic target recognition (ATR). However, it is too difficult to effectively train the deep neural networks with limited raw SAR images. In this paper, we propose a new approach to do SAR ATR, in which a multiview deep learning framework was employed. Based on the multiview SAR ATR pattern, we first present a flexible mean to generate adequate multiview SAR data, which can guarantee a large amount of inputs for network training without needing many raw SAR images. Then, a unique deep convolutional neural network containing a parallel network topology with multiple inputs is adopted. The features of input SAR images from different views will be learned by the proposed network layer by layer; meanwhile, the learned features from the distinct views are fused in different layers progressively. Therefore, the proposed framework is able to achieve a superior recognition performance, and requires only a small number of raw SAR images for network training samples generation. Experimental results have shown the superiority of the proposed framework based on the Moving and Stationary Target Acquisition and Recognition data set. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Following the great success of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in computer vision, this paper proposes a complex-valued CNN (CV-CNN) specifically for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image interpretation. It utilizes both amplitude and phase information of complex SAR imagery. All elements of CNN including input-output layer, convolution layer, activation function, and pooling layer are extended to the complex domain. Moreover, a complex backpropagation algorithm based on stochastic gradient descent is derived for CV-CNN training. The proposed CV-CNN is then tested on the typical polarimetric SAR image classification task which classifies each pixel into known terrain types via supervised training. Experiments with the benchmark data sets of Flevoland and Oberpfaffenhofen show that the classification error can be further reduced if employing CV-CNN instead of conventional real-valued CNN with the same degrees of freedom. The performance of CV-CNN is comparable to that of existing state-of-the-art methods in terms of overall classification accuracy. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As the acquisition of very high resolution (VHR) satellite images becomes easier owing to technological advancements, ever more stringent requirements are being imposed on automatic image interpretation. Moreover, per-pixel classification has become the focus of research interests in this regard. However, the efficient and effective processing and the interpretation of VHR satellite images remain a critical task. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently been applied to VHR satellite images with considerable success. However, the prevalent CNN models accept input data of fixed sizes and train the classifier using features extracted directly from the convolutional stages or the fully connected layers, which cannot yield pixel-to-pixel classifications. Moreover, training a CNN model requires large amounts of labeled reference data. These are challenging to obtain because per-pixel labeled VHR satellite images are not open access. In this paper, we propose a framework called the unsupervised-restricted deconvolutional neural network (URDNN). It can solve these problems by learning an end-to-end and pixel-to-pixel classification and handling a VHR classification using a fully convolutional network and a small number of labeled pixels. In URDNN, supervised learning is always under the restriction of unsupervised learning, which serves to constrain and aid supervised training in learning more generalized and abstract feature. To some degree, it will try to reduce the problems of overfitting and undertraining, which arise from the scarcity of labeled training data, and to gain better classification results using fewer training samples. It improves the generality of the classification model. We tested the proposed URDNN on images from the Geoeye and Quickbird sensors and obtained satisfactory results with the highest overall accuracy (OA) achieved as 0.977 and 0.989, respectively. Experiments showed that the combined effects of additional kernels and stages may have produced better results, and two-stage URDNN consistently produced a more stable result. We compared URDNN with four methods and found that with a small ratio of selected labeled data items, it yielded the highest and most stable results, whereas the accuracy values of the other methods quickly decreased. For some categories with fewer training pixels, accuracy for categories from other methods was considerably worse than that in URDNN, with the largest difference reaching almost 10%. Hence, the proposed URDNN can successfully handle the VHR image classification using a small number of labeled pixels. Furthermore, it is more effective than state-of-the-art methods. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Deep learning based land cover classification algorithms have recently been proposed in the literature. In hyperspectral images (HSIs), they face the challenges of large dimensionality, spatial variability of spectral signatures, and scarcity of labeled data. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end deep learning architecture that extracts band specific spectral-spatial features and performs land cover classification. The architecture has fewer independent connection weights and thus requires fewer training samples. The method is found to outperform the highest reported accuracies on popular HSI data sets. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]