Unsupervised Change Detection of Multispectral Remote Sensing Images Based on Deep Difference Feature Variance Maximization

Remote sensing (RS) image change detection (CD) is a basic application in the military and people’s livelihood. The imaging results of multitemporal and multispectral RS images have interference effects such as spectral information difference, imaging light difference, sensor noise, so the accuracy and robustness of traditional CD algorithms are restricted. In this study, we propose an unsupervised fully connected multivariate alteration detection (UFMAD) algorithm. First, UFMAD is used to extract the deep difference feature of normalized multitemporal RS images. The weighted map was obtained by using the chi-square distance of the deep difference feature and weighted with the input data. Then, the UFMAD is iteratively optimized under the three proposed constraints of variance maximization, similarity maximization, and uncorrelation of deep features. Finally, the deep feature was clustered to get the change results. By analyzing the experimental results of six advanced CD algorithms on three sets of data, the highest relative detection accuracy of UFMAD has increased by 7.0%. It is verified that the algorithm proposed in this thesis has obvious performance advantages.