A Dense Bootstrap Contrastive Learning Method With 3-D Dynamic Convolution for Few-Shot PolSAR Image Classification

High-quality labeled samples of polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) images are relatively scarce. Therefore, achieving optimal classification performance with limited labeled samples has become a significant challenge in PolSAR image classification tasks. Existing deep learning methods not only rely on large amounts of labeled samples but also often face limitations in classification accuracy when handling multi-instance PolSAR image classification tasks. In response to this challenge, we propose a few-shot PolSAR image classification method based on dense bootstrap contrastive learning with 3-dimensional dynamic convolution (DBCL-3DDC). The design of 3DDC enhances the feature extraction ability of the network for complex data. The DBCL learns global and local representations in a 30% and 70% ratio respectively, heuristically extracting feature representations for multi-instance PolSAR images. More importantly, during the pre-training phase, we design a multi-level contrastive learning strategy that fully utilizes both global and local instance representations without requiring labeled samples. The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated through experiments on three different datasets. Notably, on the Flevoland 1989 dataset, DBCL-3DDC achieves an overall accuracy of 97.29% using only 0.2% of labeled samples.