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SAR images change detection based on saliency map denoising in the NSCT domain

MU Caihong1;WU Shengcai1;LIU Yi2;PENG Peng3;LIU Ruochen1   

  1. (1. Ministry of Education Key Lab. of Intelligent Perception and Image Understanding, Xidian Univ., Xi'an 710071, China;
    2. School of Electronic Engineering, Xidian Univ., Xi'an 710071, China;
    3. School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Xidian Univ., Xi'an 710071, China)
  • Received:2017-04-08 Online:2018-04-20 Published:2018-06-06

Abstract:

Aiming at solving the problem of low detection accuracy of traditional synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image change detection methods this paper proposes a change detection method which combines salient information to construct the fused difference image in the nonsubsampled contourlet transform (NSCT) domain. First, three difference images including the mean ratio image, log ratio image and neighborhood log ratio image are constructed with two input images and then the saliency image is extracted from the log ratio image Second, the mean ratio image and neighborhood log ratio image are decomposed by the NSCT method. The low-pass sub-bands of the neighborhood log ratio image are restricted by the saliency image to highlight the change region of the fused difference image. The directional sub-bands are selectively denoised by the saliency image in different scales and then fused according to the principle of minimum local energy. Finally, the NSCT inverse transform is used to obtain a fused difference image and the change detection map is generated by using the k-means clustering method. The experimental results show that this method can get a better edge and detailed information as well as a higher detection accuracy.

Key words: SAR images, change detection, NSCT transform, saliency map, k-means method