Contrastive Dual-Pool Feature Adaption for Domain Incremental Remote Sensing Scene Classification

Remote sensing image classification has achieved remarkable success in environmental monitoring and urban planning using deep neural networks (DNNs). However, the performance of these models is significantly impacted by domain shifts due to seasonal changes, varying atmospheric conditions, and diffe...

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Main Authors: Yingzhao Shao, Yunsong Li, Xiaodong Han
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2025-01-01
Series:Remote Sensing
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/17/2/308
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Summary:Remote sensing image classification has achieved remarkable success in environmental monitoring and urban planning using deep neural networks (DNNs). However, the performance of these models is significantly impacted by domain shifts due to seasonal changes, varying atmospheric conditions, and different geographical locations. Existing solutions, including rehearsal-based and prompt-based methods, face limitations such as data privacy concerns, high computational overhead, and unreliable feature embeddings due to domain gaps. To address these challenges, we propose DACL (dual-pool architecture with contrastive learning), a novel framework for domain incremental learning in remote sensing image classification. DACL introduces three key components: (1) a dual-pool architecture comprising a prompt pool for domain-specific tokens and an adapter pool for feature adaptation, enabling efficient domain-specific feature extraction; (2) a dual loss mechanism that combines image-attracting loss and text-separating loss to enhance intra-domain feature discrimination while maintaining clear class boundaries; and (3) a K-means-based domain selector that efficiently matches unknown domain features with existing domain representations using cosine similarity. Our approach eliminates the need for storing historical data while maintaining minimal computational overhead. Extensive experiments on six widely used datasets demonstrate that DACL consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods in domain incremental learning for remote sensing image classification scenarios, achieving an average accuracy improvement of 4.07% over the best baseline method.
ISSN:2072-4292