Manifold Constraint Regularization for Remote Sensing Image Generation

Abstract: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown notable accomplishments in remote sensing domain. However, this paper reveals that their performance on remote sensing images falls short when compared to their impressive results with natural images. This study identifies a previously overlooked issue: GANs exhibit a heightened susceptibility to overfitting on remote sensing images.To address this challenge, this paper analyzes the characteristics of remote sensing images and proposes manifold constraint regularization, a novel approach that tackles overfitting of GANs on remote sensing images for the first time. Our method includes a new measure for evaluating the structure of the data manifold. Leveraging this measure, we propose the manifold constraint regularization term, which not only alleviates the overfitting problem, but also promotes alignment between the generated and real data manifolds, leading to enhanced quality in the generated images. The effectiveness and versatility of this method have been corroborated through extensive validation on various remote sensing datasets and GAN models. The proposed method not only enhances the quality of the generated images, reflected in a 3.13\% improvement in Frechet Inception Distance (FID) score, but also boosts the performance of the GANs on downstream tasks, evidenced by a 3.76\% increase in classification accuracy.