A Novel General Semisupervised Deep Learning Framework for Classification and Regression with Remote Sensing Images

Abstract

Remote sensing image analysis often involves image-level classification and/ or regression. One major problem with remote sensing data is that it is difficult to obtain abundant precise manual annotations to train fully supervised deep networks that have achieved great success in computer vision. Therefore, this paper proposes a novel general semisupervised framework (GSF) which only requires a small amount of annotated samples for training. It employs a new hybrid (dis) similarity to characterize different aspects of the images and realizes label propagation while fine- tuning a deep neural network (NN). As shown by the experimental results, GSF outperforms several supervised baselines and state-of-the-art semisupervised models in classification and regression.