Unsupervised change detection in SAR images using a non-local mean filter and hyperbolic tangent sigmoid function
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study presents an unsupervised methodology for change detection in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery, designed to address challenges in accurately identifying affected regions following natural disasters. The proposed approach integrates advanced techniques such as the Hyperbolic Tangent Sigmoid Function (HTS-F) and the Non-Local Means (NLMeans) filter to enhance noise reduction and preserve edge clarity. The architecture minimizes computational overhead through Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and k-means++ clustering, ensuring efficiency while maintaining high detection accuracy. Experimental results on real-world datasets, including Yellow River, Bern, and Ottawa, demonstrate the method’s adaptability and robustness. By combining mathematical precision with operational simplicity, this approach contributes significantly to the evolving landscape of SAR-based change detection.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it