Advanced Deep Learning Strategies for the Analysis of Remote Sensing Images - 2nd Edition
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Remote Sensing Image Processing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 2515
Special Issue Editors
Interests: remote sensing image processing and analysis
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: multi/hyperspectral remote sensing; image processing and analysis; machine learning; pattern recognition; computer vision
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: remote sensing; image processing and analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The last two decades have unveiled that remote sensing (RS) has become an essential technology in monitoring urban, atmospheric, and ecological changes. The increased availability of satellites and airborne sensors with different spatial and spectral resolutions has made this technology a key component in decision making. In addition to these traditional platforms, a new era has recently opened by the adoption of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for diverse applications such as policing, precision farming, and urban planning.
The potential provided in terms of observation capability similarly introduces considerable challenges in terms of information extraction. Yet, processing the massive data collected by these diverse platforms is impractical and ineffective using traditional image analysis methodologies. This calls for the adoption of powerful techniques that can extract reliable and useful information. In this context, deep learning (DL) strategies have shown promise in addressing the challenging needs of the RS community. DL was introduced decades ago, when the first steps toward building artificial neural networks were taken. However, due to limited processing resources, it did not reach cutting-edge success in data representation and classification tasks until the recent appearance of high-performance computing facilities. This, in turn, enabled the design of sophisticated deep neural architectures and boosted the precision to demonstrate groundbreaking performance in addressing many problems.
This Special Issue welcomes papers that explore novel and challenging topics for the analysis of remote sensing images acquired with diverse platforms. We welcome topics including but not limited to the following:
- Semantic segmentation;
- Domain adaptation from single and multiple sources;
- Continual learning;
- Exploration of the relationship between natural language and remote sensing images (bidirectional text to image retrieval, image captioning, visual question answering);
- Crowd estimation in UAV imagery;
- Image generation and conversion using generative adversarial networks.
The first edition of this Special Issue can be found at:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/advanced_deep_learning
Dr. Yakoub Bazi
Dr. Edoardo Pasolli
Dr. Mohamed Al-Rahal
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- multispectral/hyperspectral/UAV imagery
- natural language and remote sensing
- classification, restoration, super-resolution, retrieval, change detection
- convolutional neural networks (CNNs)
- generative adversarial networks (GANs)
