PolSAR image classification using shallow to deep feature fusion network with complex valued attention
Abstract Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) images encompass valuable information that can facilitate extensive land cover interpretation and generate diverse output products. Extracting meaningful features from PolSAR data poses challenges distinct from those encountered in optical imag...
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| author | Mohammed Q. Alkhatib M. Sami Zitouni Mina Al-Saad Nour Aburaed Hussain Al-Ahmad |
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| description | Abstract Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) images encompass valuable information that can facilitate extensive land cover interpretation and generate diverse output products. Extracting meaningful features from PolSAR data poses challenges distinct from those encountered in optical imagery. Deep Learning (DL) methods offer effective solutions for overcoming these challenges in PolSAR feature extraction. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) play a crucial role in capturing PolSAR image characteristics by exploiting kernel capabilities to consider local information and the complex-valued nature of PolSAR data. In this study, a novel three-branch fusion of Complex-Valued CNN named (CV-ASDF2Net) is proposed for PolSAR image classification. To validate the performance of the proposed method, classification results are compared against multiple state-of-the-art approaches using the Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (AIRSAR) datasets of Flevoland, San Francisco, and ESAR Oberpfaffenhofen dataset. Moreover, quantitative and qualitative evaluation measures are conducted to assess the classification performance. The results indicate that the proposed approach achieves notable improvements in Overall Accuracy (OA), with enhancements of 1.30% and 0.80% for the AIRSAR datasets, and 0.50% for the ESAR dataset. However, the most remarkable performance of the CV-ASDF2Net model is observed with the Flevoland dataset; the model achieves an impressive OA of 96.01% with only a 1% sampling ratio. The source code is available at: https://github.com/mqalkhatib/CV-ASDF2Net |
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| spelling | doaj-art-66f9b439cd42491bb39648cb92859dc42025-08-20T03:45:49ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222025-07-0115111910.1038/s41598-025-10475-3PolSAR image classification using shallow to deep feature fusion network with complex valued attentionMohammed Q. Alkhatib0M. Sami Zitouni1Mina Al-Saad2Nour Aburaed3Hussain Al-Ahmad4College of Engineering and IT, University of DubaiCollege of Engineering and IT, University of DubaiCollege of Engineering and IT, University of DubaiCollege of Engineering and IT, University of DubaiCollege of Engineering and IT, University of DubaiAbstract Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) images encompass valuable information that can facilitate extensive land cover interpretation and generate diverse output products. Extracting meaningful features from PolSAR data poses challenges distinct from those encountered in optical imagery. Deep Learning (DL) methods offer effective solutions for overcoming these challenges in PolSAR feature extraction. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) play a crucial role in capturing PolSAR image characteristics by exploiting kernel capabilities to consider local information and the complex-valued nature of PolSAR data. In this study, a novel three-branch fusion of Complex-Valued CNN named (CV-ASDF2Net) is proposed for PolSAR image classification. To validate the performance of the proposed method, classification results are compared against multiple state-of-the-art approaches using the Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (AIRSAR) datasets of Flevoland, San Francisco, and ESAR Oberpfaffenhofen dataset. Moreover, quantitative and qualitative evaluation measures are conducted to assess the classification performance. The results indicate that the proposed approach achieves notable improvements in Overall Accuracy (OA), with enhancements of 1.30% and 0.80% for the AIRSAR datasets, and 0.50% for the ESAR dataset. However, the most remarkable performance of the CV-ASDF2Net model is observed with the Flevoland dataset; the model achieves an impressive OA of 96.01% with only a 1% sampling ratio. The source code is available at: https://github.com/mqalkhatib/CV-ASDF2Nethttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-10475-3Complex-valued attention mechanism (CV-AM)Complex-valued convolutional neural network (CV-CNN)Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) image classificationFeature fusion |
| spellingShingle | Mohammed Q. Alkhatib M. Sami Zitouni Mina Al-Saad Nour Aburaed Hussain Al-Ahmad PolSAR image classification using shallow to deep feature fusion network with complex valued attention Scientific Reports Complex-valued attention mechanism (CV-AM) Complex-valued convolutional neural network (CV-CNN) Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) image classification Feature fusion |
| title | PolSAR image classification using shallow to deep feature fusion network with complex valued attention |
| title_full | PolSAR image classification using shallow to deep feature fusion network with complex valued attention |
| title_fullStr | PolSAR image classification using shallow to deep feature fusion network with complex valued attention |
| title_full_unstemmed | PolSAR image classification using shallow to deep feature fusion network with complex valued attention |
| title_short | PolSAR image classification using shallow to deep feature fusion network with complex valued attention |
| title_sort | polsar image classification using shallow to deep feature fusion network with complex valued attention |
| topic | Complex-valued attention mechanism (CV-AM) Complex-valued convolutional neural network (CV-CNN) Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) image classification Feature fusion |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-10475-3 |
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