Riemannian Complex Matrix Convolution Network for PolSAR Image Classification

Recently, deep learning methods have achieved superior performance for Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar(PolSAR) image classification. Existing deep learning methods learn PolSAR data by converting the covariance matrix into a feature vector or complex-valued vector as the input. However, all these methods cannot learn the structure of complex matrix directly and destroy the channel correlation. To learn geometric structure of complex matrix, we propose a Riemannian complex matrix convolution network for PolSAR image classification in Riemannian space for the first time, which directly utilizes the complex matrix as the network input and defines the Riemannian operations to learn complex matrix's features. The proposed Riemannian complex matrix convolution network considers PolSAR complex matrix endowed in Riemannian manifold, and defines a series of new Riemannian convolution, ReLu and LogEig operations in Riemannian space, which breaks through the Euclidean constraint of conventional networks. Then, a CNN module is appended to enhance contextual Riemannian features. Besides, a fast kernel learning method is developed for the proposed method to learn class-specific features and reduce the computation time effectively. Experiments are conducted on three sets of real PolSAR data with different bands and sensors. Experiments results demonstrates the proposed method can obtain superior performance than the state-of-the-art methods.

Riemannian Nearest-Regularized Subspace Classification for Polarimetric SAR images

As a representation learning method, nearest regularized subspace(NRS) algorithm is an effective tool to obtain both accuracy and speed for PolSAR image classification. However, existing NRS methods use the polarimetric feature vector but the PolSAR original covariance matrix(known as Hermitian positive definite(HPD)matrix) as the input. Without considering the matrix structure, existing NRS-based methods cannot learn correlation among channels. How to utilize the original covariance matrix to NRS method is a key problem. To address this limit, a Riemannian NRS method is proposed, which consider the HPD matrices endow in the Riemannian space. Firstly, to utilize the PolSAR original data, a Riemannian NRS method(RNRS) is proposed by constructing HPD dictionary and HPD distance metric. Secondly, a new Tikhonov regularization term is designed to reduce the differences within the same class. Finally, the optimal method is developed and the first-order derivation is inferred. During the experimental test, only T matrix is used in the proposed method, while multiple of features are utilized for compared methods. Experimental results demonstrate the proposed method can outperform the state-of-art algorithms even using less features.