Application of Data Driven Optimization for Change Detection in Synthetic Aperture Radar Images

Data-driven optimization is an efficient global optimization algorithm for expensive black-box functions. In this paper, we apply data-driven optimization algorithm to the task of change detection with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images for the first time. We first propose an easy-to-implement threshold algorithm for change detection in SAR images based on data-driven optimization. Its performance has been compared with commonly used methods like generalized Kittler and Illingworth threshold algorithms (GKIT). Next, we demonstrate how to tune the hyper-parameter of a (previously available) deep belief network (DBN) for change detection using data-driven optimization. Extensive evaluations are carried out using publicly available benchmark datasets. The obtained results suggest comparatively strong performance of our optimized DBN-based change detection algorithm.