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Hierarchical reinforcement learning for saliency detection of low-resolution airports

  • Beijing Key Laboratory of Digital Media
  • Beihang University
  • Beijing Jinghang Computation & Communication Research Institute

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Abstract

The traditional airport detection methods usually utilize geometric characteristics, which are limited by large amount of data and low-resolution of the remote sensing images. In this paper, we present a novel hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL) saliency model for quickly airports detecting in large cover area. In contrast with conventional saliency models which usually are effective for high-resolution nature images, our method learns hierarchically high-level features via multi-scale superpixels segmentation and Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO). More importantly, we introduce back-propagation theory for hierarchical learning to adaptively control and generate saliency map. Therefore our unsupervised saliency model is more simple and effective for low-resolution airport detection. Compared with 18 state-of-the-art saliency models, experimental results demonstrate the excellent performance of our method on the remote sensing image datasets. It is more robust and accurate for long-range airports detection.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2016 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1622-1625
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781509033324
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Nov 2016
Event36th IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2016 - Beijing, China
Duration: 10 Jul 201615 Jul 2016

Publication series

NameInternational Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
Volume2016-November

Conference

Conference36th IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2016
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period10/07/1615/07/16

Keywords

  • airport detection
  • high-level features
  • low-resolution
  • reinforcement learning saliency model
  • remote sensing image

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