Lightweight Deep Neural Networks for Remote Sensing Image Understanding

Dear Colleagues,

With the rapid development of intelligent information technology, images from remote sensing play a very important role in many research areas including geology, oceanography, weather forecasting, etc. However, compared to general digital images, remote sensing images require complex pre-processing such as optical geometric correction and radiation correction. Consequently, it is usually impossible to construct a dataset including a large number of remote sensing images. Deep learning techniques have emerged as a powerful alternative for machine learning with great model capacity and the learning ability of highly discriminative features for the task at hand. In particular, deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) have been widely used in the field of remote sensing. However, deep models often rely on a large number of annotated images, which is difficult for the field of remote sensing. How to train a lightweight deep learning model using small training samples is a challenge in remote sensing. This Special Issue aims to publish high-quality research papers, as well as review articles addressing emerging trends in remote sensing image understanding using lightweight deep neural network models. Original contributions, not currently under review for a journal or a conference, are solicited in relevant areas including, but not limited to, the following:

• Object detection in remote sensing images using lightweight deep neural networks
• Remote sensing image classification using lightweight deep neural networks
• Change detection using lightweight deep neural networks
• Super-resolution reconstruction of remote sensing images using lightweight deep neural networks
• Remote sensing image restoration using lightweight deep neural networks
• Remote sensing applications using deep neural networks
• Deep neural networks for hyperspectral data
• Review/Surveys of remote sensing image processing
• New remote sensing image datasets

Prof. Dr. Tao Lei
Dr. Hongying Meng
Dr. Shuying Li
Dr. Lefei Zhang
Dr. Jungong Han
Guest Editors

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