Fei Ma
Attention Graph Convolution Network for Image Segmentation in Big SAR Imagery Data
Ma, Fei; Gao, Fei; Sun, Jinping; Zhou, Huiyu; Hussain, Amir
Abstract
The recent emergence of high-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images leads to massive amounts of data. In order to segment these big remotely sensed data in an acceptable time frame, more and more segmentation algorithms based on deep learning attempt to take superpixels as processing units. However, the over-segmented images become non-Euclidean structure data that traditional deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) cannot directly process. Here, we propose a novel Attention Graph Convolution Network (AGCN) to perform superpixel-wise segmentation in big SAR imagery data. AGCN consists of an attention mechanism layer and Graph Convolution Networks (GCN). GCN can operate on graph-structure data by generalizing convolutions to the graph domain and have been successfully applied in tasks such as node classification. The attention mechanism layer is introduced to guide the graph convolution layers to focus on the most relevant nodes in order to make decisions by specifying different coefficients to different nodes in a neighbourhood. The attention layer is located before the convolution layers, and noisy information from the neighbouring nodes has less negative influence on the attention coefficients. Quantified experiments on two airborne SAR image datasets prove that the proposed method outperforms the other state-of-the-art segmentation approaches. Its computation time is also far less than the current mainstream pixel-level semantic segmentation networks.
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Ma, F., Gao, F., Sun, J., Zhou, H., & Hussain, A. (2019). Attention Graph Convolution Network for Image Segmentation in Big SAR Imagery Data. Remote Sensing, 11(21), 2586. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11212586
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Oct 30, 2019 |
Online Publication Date | Nov 4, 2019 |
Publication Date | Nov 4, 2019 |
Deposit Date | Nov 11, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Nov 11, 2019 |
Journal | Remote Sensing |
Electronic ISSN | 2072-4292 |
Publisher | MDPI |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 11 |
Issue | 21 |
Pages | 2586 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11212586 |
Keywords | big data; Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR); segmentation; Graph Convolution Network (GCN); attention mechanism; neighbourhood consistency |
Public URL | http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2299808 |
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