A Residual Dense Generative Adversarial Network For Pansharpening With Geometrical Constraints

The pansharpening problem consists in fusing a high resolution panchromatic image with a low resolution multispectral image in order to obtain a high resolution multispectral image. In this paper, we adapt a Residual Dense architecture for the generator in a Generative Adversarial Network framework. Indeed, this type of architecture avoids the vanishing gradient problem faced when training a network by re-injecting previous information thanks to dense and residual connections. Moreover, an important point for the pansharpening problem is to preserve the geometry of the image. Hence, we propose to add a regularization term in the loss function of the generator: it preserves the geometry of the target image so that a better solution is obtained. In addition, we propose geometrical measures that illustrate the advantages of this new method.