arXiv:2601.06777cs.CV2026-01

让遥感图像的光谱指数可学习,提升模型效率与抗噪能力

The Normalized Difference Layer: A Differentiable Spectral Index Formulation for Deep Learning

  • 提出可微分的光谱指数层,自动学习波段权重而非固定为1
  • 参数减少75%且分类准确率相当,10%噪声下性能下降仅0.17%
  • 适合遥感图像分类任务,尤其关注轻量化与光照不变性场景

标准化差值指数在遥感领域应用数十年,对光照变化具有鲁棒性,输出值有界且与生物物理信号相关。然而传统方法将其作为固定预处理步骤,系数恒为1,限制了任务适应性。本文提出可微分的标准化差值层(Normalized Difference Layer),保留经典思想的同时从数据中学习波段系数。通过softplus重参数化确保系数为正且分母有界,构建完整的前向与反向传播算法,支持端到端训练。该方法保持光照不变性和输出范围[-1,1]特性,同时允许梯度下降发现任务特定的波段权重。扩展支持带符号输入,可嵌套于深层网络。实验表明,使用该层的模型在分类准确率与标准MLP相当的前提下,参数量减少约75%;在10%乘性噪声下,准确率仅下降0.17%,显著优于基线模型(下降3.03%)。学习到的系数模式在不同深度间保持一致。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Normalized difference indices have been a staple in remote sensing for decades. They stay reliable under lighting changes produce bounded values and connect well to biophysical signals. Even so, they are usually treated as a fixed pre processing step with coefficients set to one, which limits how well they can adapt to a specific learning task. In this study, we introduce the Normalized Difference Layer that is a differentiable neural network module. The proposed method keeps the classical idea but learns the band coefficients from data. We present a complete mathematical framework for integrating this layer into deep learning architectures that uses softplus reparameterization to ensure positive coefficients and bounded denominators. We describe forward and backward pass algorithms enabling end to end training through backpropagation. This approach preserves the key benefits of normalized differences, namely illumination invariance and outputs bounded to $[-1,1]$ while allowing gradient descent to discover task specific band weightings. We extend the method to work with signed inputs, so the layer can be stacked inside larger architectures. Experiments show that models using this layer reach similar classification accuracy to standard multilayer perceptrons while using about 75\% fewer parameters. They also handle multiplicative noise well, at 10\% noise accuracy drops only 0.17\% versus 3.03\% for baseline MLPs. The learned coefficient patterns stay consistent across different depths.

遥感图像可微分模块轻量化模型光谱分析

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