@inproceedings{
mart{\'\i}nez-ferrer2024exploring,
title={Exploring Generalisability of Self-Distillation with No Labels for {SAR}-Based Vegetation Prediction},
author={Laura Mart{\'\i}nez-Ferrer and Anna Jungbluth and Joseph Alejandro Gallego Mejia and Matt Allen and Francisco Dorr and Freddie Kalaitzis and Ra{\'u}l Ramos-Poll{\'a}n},
booktitle={NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Distribution Shifts: New Frontiers with Foundation Models},
year={2024},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=jQ4SZXV7Wk}
}
In this work we pre-train a DINO-ViT based model using two Synthetic Aperture Radar datasets (S1GRD or GSSIC) across three regions (China, Conus, Europe). We fine-tune the models on smaller labeled datasets to predict vegetation percentage, and empirically study the connection between the embedding space of the models and their ability to generalize across diverse geographic regions and to unseen data. For S1GRD, embedding spaces of different regions are clearly separated, while GSSIC's overlaps. Positional patterns remain during fine-tuning, and greater distances in embeddings often result in higher errors for unfamiliar regions. With this, our work increases our understanding of generalizability for self-supervised models applied to remote sensing.
Exploring Generalisability of Self-Distillation with No Labels for SAR-Based Vegetation Prediction
Laura Martínez-Ferrer Anna Jungbluth Joseph Alejandro Gallego Mejia Matt Allen Francisco Dorr Freddie Kalaitzis Raúl Ramos-Pollán