用神经网络自动调参,让卫星图像插值更智能。
Whittaker-Henderson smoother for long satellite image time series interpolation

- 将Whittaker平滑器转为可微神经层,自适应调整平滑参数
- 支持时变噪声建模,局部自适应平滑效果更好
- 稀疏高效实现,适合大规模卫星数据处理
Whittaker平滑器广泛用于卫星图像时间序列预处理,但存在两大局限:平滑参数需逐像素调优,且默认同方差噪声假设导致时间维度上平滑强度均一。本文将其重构为可微神经层,由神经网络推断平滑参数,并通过时变正则化处理异方差噪声,使平滑程度能沿时间序列局部自适应调整。为支持大规模处理,提出基于Cholesky分解的稀疏、内存高效、完全可微实现,利用底层线性系统的对称带状结构。在GPU上的基准测试表明,该方法显著优于标准稠密求解器,速度与内存消耗均大幅降低。方法在2016–2024年法国本土区域的SITS数据集上验证有效。结果证实大规模异方差Whittaker平滑的可行性,但与同方差基线相比重建差异有限,暗示所用Transformer架构在捕捉突发噪声(如单日云污染)方面仍缺乏足够时间分辨能力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Whittaker smoother is a widely adopted solution to pre-process satellite image time series. Yet, two key limitations remain: the smoothing parameter must be tuned individually for each pixel, and the standard formulation assumes homoscedastic noise, imposing uniform smoothing across the temporal dimension. This paper addresses both limitations by casting the Whittaker smoother as a differentiable neural layer, in which the smoothing parameter is inferred by a neural network. The framework is further extended to handle heteroscedastic noise through a time-varying regularization, allowing the degree of smoothing to adapt locally along the time series. To enable large-scale processing, a sparse, memory-efficient, and fully differentiable implementation is proposed, exploiting the symmetric banded structure of the underlying linear system via Cholesky factorization. Benchmarks on GPU demonstrate that this implementation substantially outperforms standard dense linear solvers, both in speed and memory consumption. The approach is validated on SITS acquired over the French metropolitan territory between 2016 and 2024. Results confirm the feasibility of large-scale heteroscedastic Whittaker smoothing, though reconstruction differences with the homoscedastic baseline remain limited, suggesting that the transformer architecture used for smoothing parameter estimation may lack the temporal acuity needed to capture abrupt noise variations such as singleday cloud contamination.
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