학술논문

Object-Oriented Unsupervised Change Detection Based on Neighborhood Correlation Images and k-Means Clustering for the Multispectral and High Spatial Resolution Images
Document Type
article
Source
Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol 48, Iss 3, Pp 441-451 (2022)
Subject
Environmental sciences
GE1-350
Technology
Language
English
French
ISSN
1712-7971
07038992
Abstract
An unsupervised change-detection problem is formulated as a binary classification problem corresponding to the change and no change areas. This paper proposes a novel unsupervised object-oriented change detection method based on neighborhood correlation images (NCIs) and k-means clustering for high-resolution remote sensing images. We tested our proposed method in two study areas of Beijing with RapidEye images and compared it with three other popular change detection methods based on different images: change vector analysis (CVA), principal component analysis (PCA), and multivariate alteration detection (MAD). The results indicate that our method has the highest overall accuracy (90.80% in Shunyi District, Beijing and 90.40% in Daxing District, Beijing) and Kappa coefficient (0.7922 in Shunyi District, Beijing and 0.7796 in Daxing District, Beijing). In addition, the McNemar test indicates that our method is robust and stable across different study areas. We concluded that the object-oriented NCIs method outperforms traditional difference images (CVA, PCA, and MAD) in unsupervised change detection. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach in solving the problem of unsupervised change detection for high-resolution images.