Annotation Cost-Efficient Active Learning for Deep Metric Learning Driven Remote Sensing Image Retrieval

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Autores principales: Hoxha, Genc, Sumbul, Gencer, Henkel, Julia, Möllenbrok, Lars, Demir, Begüm
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author Hoxha, Genc
Sumbul, Gencer
Henkel, Julia
Möllenbrok, Lars
Demir, Begüm
author_facet Hoxha, Genc
Sumbul, Gencer
Henkel, Julia
Möllenbrok, Lars
Demir, Begüm
contents Deep metric learning (DML) has shown to be effective for content-based image retrieval (CBIR) in remote sensing (RS). Most of DML methods for CBIR rely on a high number of annotated images to accurately learn model parameters of deep neural networks (DNNs). However, gathering such data is time-consuming and costly. To address this, we propose an annotation cost-efficient active learning (ANNEAL) method tailored to DML-driven CBIR in RS. ANNEAL aims to create a small but informative training set made up of similar and dissimilar image pairs to be utilized for accurately learning a metric space. The informativeness of image pairs is evaluated by combining uncertainty and diversity criteria. To assess the uncertainty of image pairs, we introduce two algorithms: 1) metric-guided uncertainty estimation (MGUE); and 2) binary classifier guided uncertainty estimation (BCGUE). MGUE algorithm automatically estimates a threshold value that acts as a boundary between similar and dissimilar image pairs based on the distances in the metric space. The closer the similarity between image pairs is to the estimated threshold value the higher their uncertainty. BCGUE algorithm estimates the uncertainty of the image pairs based on the confidence of the classifier in assigning correct similarity labels. The diversity criterion is assessed through a clustering-based strategy. ANNEAL combines either MGUE or BCGUE algorithm with the clustering-based strategy to select the most informative image pairs, which are then labelled by expert annotators as similar or dissimilar. This way of annotating images significantly reduces the annotation cost compared to annotating images with land-use land-cover class labels. Experimental results on two RS benchmark datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our method. The code of this work is publicly available at \url{https://git.tu-berlin.de/rsim/anneal_tgrs}.
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spellingShingle Annotation Cost-Efficient Active Learning for Deep Metric Learning Driven Remote Sensing Image Retrieval
Hoxha, Genc
Sumbul, Gencer
Henkel, Julia
Möllenbrok, Lars
Demir, Begüm
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Deep metric learning (DML) has shown to be effective for content-based image retrieval (CBIR) in remote sensing (RS). Most of DML methods for CBIR rely on a high number of annotated images to accurately learn model parameters of deep neural networks (DNNs). However, gathering such data is time-consuming and costly. To address this, we propose an annotation cost-efficient active learning (ANNEAL) method tailored to DML-driven CBIR in RS. ANNEAL aims to create a small but informative training set made up of similar and dissimilar image pairs to be utilized for accurately learning a metric space. The informativeness of image pairs is evaluated by combining uncertainty and diversity criteria. To assess the uncertainty of image pairs, we introduce two algorithms: 1) metric-guided uncertainty estimation (MGUE); and 2) binary classifier guided uncertainty estimation (BCGUE). MGUE algorithm automatically estimates a threshold value that acts as a boundary between similar and dissimilar image pairs based on the distances in the metric space. The closer the similarity between image pairs is to the estimated threshold value the higher their uncertainty. BCGUE algorithm estimates the uncertainty of the image pairs based on the confidence of the classifier in assigning correct similarity labels. The diversity criterion is assessed through a clustering-based strategy. ANNEAL combines either MGUE or BCGUE algorithm with the clustering-based strategy to select the most informative image pairs, which are then labelled by expert annotators as similar or dissimilar. This way of annotating images significantly reduces the annotation cost compared to annotating images with land-use land-cover class labels. Experimental results on two RS benchmark datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our method. The code of this work is publicly available at \url{https://git.tu-berlin.de/rsim/anneal_tgrs}.
title Annotation Cost-Efficient Active Learning for Deep Metric Learning Driven Remote Sensing Image Retrieval
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10107