Dendritic Computing with Differential Evolution for Unsupervised
Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Change Detection
Abstract
Suffering from speckle noise is one of the main obstacles to detect
accurate change in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, gives rise to
synthetic aperture radar image quality degradation. To address this
issue, existing deep learning methods typically emphasize spatial
information. Inspired by the nonlinear signal processing
characteristics, this letter introduces the dendrite neuron model for
SAR image change detection task. With a locally nonlinear dendrite
structure, dendrite neuron model can adaptively construct the nonlinear
effects that these synaptic inputs in the dendrite structure, which is
beneficial for describing the contribution of these neighbouring
synaptic inputs to the task. Meanwhile, multichannel input signals
converge into the cell body by these branches of the dendrite layer,
from which different intensities of stimulation on the neuron cell body
were aggregated. The parameters involved in this model were searched for
the optimal combination using a differential evolution algorithm. Though
Simple in structure, visual and quantitative results obtained on three
real SAR image data sets have demonstrated the effectiveness and
robustness of the dendrite neuron model.