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However, such methods have the following limitations: (1) SAR images are severely affected by speckle noise, resulting in unstable pixel distance estimation. (2) Artificially designed features cannot be well-adapted to complex SAR image scenes, such as the building regions. Aiming to overcome these shortcomings, we propose a multitask learning-based superpixel generation network (ML-SGN) for SAR images. ML-SGN firstly utilizes a multitask feature extractor to extract deep features, and constructs a high-dimensional feature space containing intensity information, deep semantic informantion, and spatial information. Then, we define an effective pixel distance measure based on the high-dimensional feature space. In addition, we design a differentiable soft assignment operation instead of the non-differentiable nearest neighbor operation, so that the differentiable Simple Linear Iterative Clustering (SLIC) and multitask feature extractor can be combined into an end-to-end superpixel generation network. Comprehensive evaluations are performed on two real SAR images with different bands, which demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms other state-of-the-art methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14040899","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,14]],"date-time":"2022-02-14T03:52:27Z","timestamp":1644810747000},"page":"899","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Multitask Learning-Based for SAR Image Superpixel Generation"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5029-9253","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jiafei","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China"}]},{"given":"Qingsong","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518107, China"}]},{"given":"Jianda","family":"Cheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0152-6621","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Deliang","family":"Xiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China"},{"name":"Interdisciplinary Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China"}]},{"given":"Wenbo","family":"Jing","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Electronic Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1463","DOI":"10.1109\/TGRS.2018.2866934","article-title":"Segmentation of marine SAR images by sublook analysis and application to sea traffic monitoring","volume":"57","author":"Renga","year":"2018","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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