Pattern Integration and Enhancement Vision Transformer for Self-Supervised Learning in Remote Sensing

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Main Authors: Lu, Kaixuan, Zhang, Ruiqian, Huang, Xiao, Xie, Yuxing, Ning, Xiaogang, Zhang, Hanchao, Yuan, Mengke, Zhang, Pan, Wang, Tao, Liao, Tongkui
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author Lu, Kaixuan
Zhang, Ruiqian
Huang, Xiao
Xie, Yuxing
Ning, Xiaogang
Zhang, Hanchao
Yuan, Mengke
Zhang, Pan
Wang, Tao
Liao, Tongkui
author_facet Lu, Kaixuan
Zhang, Ruiqian
Huang, Xiao
Xie, Yuxing
Ning, Xiaogang
Zhang, Hanchao
Yuan, Mengke
Zhang, Pan
Wang, Tao
Liao, Tongkui
contents Recent self-supervised learning (SSL) methods have demonstrated impressive results in learning visual representations from unlabeled remote sensing images. However, most remote sensing images predominantly consist of scenographic scenes containing multiple ground objects without explicit foreground targets, which limits the performance of existing SSL methods that focus on foreground targets. This raises the question: Is there a method that can automatically aggregate similar objects within scenographic remote sensing images, thereby enabling models to differentiate knowledge embedded in various geospatial patterns for improved feature representation? In this work, we present the Pattern Integration and Enhancement Vision Transformer (PIEViT), a novel self-supervised learning framework designed specifically for remote sensing imagery. PIEViT utilizes a teacher-student architecture to address both image-level and patch-level tasks. It employs the Geospatial Pattern Cohesion (GPC) module to explore the natural clustering of patches, enhancing the differentiation of individual features. The Feature Integration Projection (FIP) module further refines masked token reconstruction using geospatially clustered patches. We validated PIEViT across multiple downstream tasks, including object detection, semantic segmentation, and change detection. Experiments demonstrated that PIEViT enhances the representation of internal patch features, providing significant improvements over existing self-supervised baselines. It achieves excellent results in object detection, land cover classification, and change detection, underscoring its robustness, generalization, and transferability for remote sensing image interpretation tasks.
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spellingShingle Pattern Integration and Enhancement Vision Transformer for Self-Supervised Learning in Remote Sensing
Lu, Kaixuan
Zhang, Ruiqian
Huang, Xiao
Xie, Yuxing
Ning, Xiaogang
Zhang, Hanchao
Yuan, Mengke
Zhang, Pan
Wang, Tao
Liao, Tongkui
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Recent self-supervised learning (SSL) methods have demonstrated impressive results in learning visual representations from unlabeled remote sensing images. However, most remote sensing images predominantly consist of scenographic scenes containing multiple ground objects without explicit foreground targets, which limits the performance of existing SSL methods that focus on foreground targets. This raises the question: Is there a method that can automatically aggregate similar objects within scenographic remote sensing images, thereby enabling models to differentiate knowledge embedded in various geospatial patterns for improved feature representation? In this work, we present the Pattern Integration and Enhancement Vision Transformer (PIEViT), a novel self-supervised learning framework designed specifically for remote sensing imagery. PIEViT utilizes a teacher-student architecture to address both image-level and patch-level tasks. It employs the Geospatial Pattern Cohesion (GPC) module to explore the natural clustering of patches, enhancing the differentiation of individual features. The Feature Integration Projection (FIP) module further refines masked token reconstruction using geospatially clustered patches. We validated PIEViT across multiple downstream tasks, including object detection, semantic segmentation, and change detection. Experiments demonstrated that PIEViT enhances the representation of internal patch features, providing significant improvements over existing self-supervised baselines. It achieves excellent results in object detection, land cover classification, and change detection, underscoring its robustness, generalization, and transferability for remote sensing image interpretation tasks.
title Pattern Integration and Enhancement Vision Transformer for Self-Supervised Learning in Remote Sensing
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.06091