A novel information transferring approach for the classification of remote sensing images

Traditional remote sensing images classification methods focused on using a large amount of labeled target data to train an efficient classification model. However, these approaches were generally based on the target data without considering a host of auxiliary data or the additional information of auxiliary data. If the valuable information from auxiliary data could be successfully transferred to the target data, the performance of the classification model would be improved. In addition, from the perspective of practical application, these valuable information from auxiliary data should be fully used. Therefore, in this paper, based on the transfer learning idea, we proposed a novel information transferring approach to improve the remote sensing images classification performance. The main rationale of this approach is that first, the information of the same areas associated with each pixel is modeled as the intra-class set, and the information of different areas associated with each pixel is modeled as the inter-class set, and then the obtained texture feature information of each area from auxiliary is transferred to the target data set such that the inter-class set is separated and intra-class set is gathered as far as possible. Experiments show that the proposed approach is effective and feasible.