Abstract
Conference Title: IGARSS 2018 - 2018 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Conference Start Date: 2018, July 22 Conference End Date: 2018, July 27 Conference Location: Valencia, Spain In this paper, we present a novel method for cross-scene classification in remote sensing images based on generative adversarial networks (GANs). To this end, we train in an adversarial manner an encoder-decoder network coupled with a discriminator network on labeled and unlabeled data coming from two different domains. The encoder-decoder network aims to reduce the discrepancy between the distributions of the two domains, while the discriminator tries to discriminate between them. At the end of the optimization process, we train an extra network on the obtained encoded labeled data and then classify the encoded unlabeled data. Experimental results on two datasets acquired over the cities of Potsdam and Vaihingen with spatial resolutions of 5cm and 9cm, respectively, confirm the promising capability of the proposed method.