PolSAR Image Classification Based on DBN and Tensor Dimensionality Reduction

Biao Hou, Xianpeng Guo, Weidan Hou, Shuang Wang, Xiangrong Zhang, Licheng Jiao

Abstract: This paper proposes a new semi-supervised PolSAR image classification method using deep belief network (DBN) and tensor dimensionality reduction, which uses multilinear principle component analysis (MPCA) to reduce the dimension of tensor form PolSAR data, and regards the multiple features of PolSAR data as the input of DBN. In order to take full advantage of neighborhood information of each pixel of PolSAR data, we take each pixel and its neighborhood as tensor form. For PolSAR data, simple feature has been proven not to be able to effectively classify complex terrains. Therefore, we combine multiple features of PolSAR data to obtain more abundant information, which can reflect some spatial structure of PolSAR data. The experimental results show that the overall classification accuracy based on the proposed method outperforms the traditional classification strategies.