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A survey of active learning algorithms for supervised remote sensing image classification

Mikhail KanevskiJordi Munoz-mariMichele VolpiDevis TuiaLoris Copa

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FOS: Computer and information sciencesComputer scienceComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionMachine learningcomputer.software_genreactive learningHyperspectral image classificationEntropy (information theory)Electrical and Electronic EngineeringArchitectureRemote sensingvery high resolution (VHR)PixelContextual image classificationbusiness.industryHyperspectral imagingSupport vector machinehyperspectraltraining set definitionSignal Processingsupport vector machine (SVM)Artificial intelligenceHeuristicsbusinessAlgorithmcomputerimage classification

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Defining an efficient training set is one of the most delicate phases for the success of remote sensing image classification routines. The complexity of the problem, the limited temporal and financial resources, as well as the high intraclass variance can make an algorithm fail if it is trained with a suboptimal dataset. Active learning aims at building efficient training sets by iteratively improving the model performance through sampling. A user-defined heuristic ranks the unlabeled pixels according to a function of the uncertainty of their class membership and then the user is asked to provide labels for the most uncertain pixels. This paper reviews and tests the main families of active learning algorithms: committee, large margin, and posterior probability-based. For each of them, the most recent advances in the remote sensing community are discussed and some heuristics are detailed and tested. Several challenging remote sensing scenarios are considered, including very high spatial resolution and hyperspectral image classification. Finally, guidelines for choosing the good architecture are provided for new and/or unexperienced user.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2011-01-01
10.1109/jstsp.2011.2139193https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/a-survey-of-active-learning-algorithms-for-supervised-remote-sens