Presentation 2021-11-05
Quaternion convolutional neural networks for PolSAR land classification
Yuya Matsumoto, Ryo Natsuaki, Akira Hirose,
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Abstract(in English) We propose a quaternion convolutional neural network (QCNN) for Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar(PolSAR) land classification. Unlike a conventional real-valued CNN (RVCNN), a QCNN does not simply sum up thecomponents of input vectors in the convolutional processing. A QCNN performs an orthogonal transformation to thecomponents of input vectors by quaternionic rotation and scaling to learn the relationship between them. A QCNNalso can learn spatial textures of input data as well as a conventional RVCNN. In our experiments, we compare threeneural networks, namely, a fully-connected quaternion neural network (QNN), a RVCNN, and our proposed QCNN. Asexperimental results, our proposed QCNN show the best classification performance. We also show that quaternionicconvolution can extract spatial texture by visualizing quaternion kernels.
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Keyword(in English) Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolsAR) / convolutional neural network (CNN) / quaternion neural network (QNN)
Paper # EMT2021-43
Date of Issue 2021-10-28 (EMT)

Conference Information
Committee EMT / IEE-EMT
Conference Date 2021/11/4(2days)
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Place (in English) Online
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Topics (in English) Electromagnetic Theory, etc.
Chair Hiroyuki Deguchi(Doshisha Univ.) / Akira Matsushima(Kumamoto Univ.)
Vice Chair Hideki Kawaguchi(Muroran Inst. of Tech)
Secretary Hideki Kawaguchi(Miyazaki Univ.) / (Mitsubishi Electric)
Assistant Kazuki Niino(Kyoto Univ.) / Junichiro Sugisaka(Kitami Inst. of Tech.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Electromagnetic Theory / Technical Meeting on Electromagnetic Theory
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Quaternion convolutional neural networks for PolSAR land classification
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolsAR)
Keyword(2) convolutional neural network (CNN)
Keyword(3) quaternion neural network (QNN)
1st Author's Name Yuya Matsumoto
1st Author's Affiliation The University of Tokyo(UTokyo)
2nd Author's Name Ryo Natsuaki
2nd Author's Affiliation The University of Tokyo(UTokyo)
3rd Author's Name Akira Hirose
3rd Author's Affiliation The University of Tokyo(UTokyo)
Date 2021-11-05
Paper # EMT2021-43
Volume (vol) vol.121
Number (no) EMT-226
Page pp.pp.76-81(EMT),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2021-10-28 (EMT)