Pseudo-Centroid Representation Learning for Cross-domain Few-shot Classification from Remote Sensing Imagery

Cross-domain few-shot classification is gaining significant attention due to its potential to address challenges in remote sensing applications, such as large domain gaps and limited labeled data. Recent approaches have explored leveraging unlabeled target domain data for semi-supervised learning, in addition to source labeled data, to improve cross-domain training. However, these techniques often struggle with getting discriminative representation for distinguishing categories in novel target domains, particularly when facing new categories and limited training examples. To overcome these issues, we propose a novel cross-domain pseudo-centroid representation (CDPCR) framework, designed to generate more discriminative and adaptable class representations for improved cross-domain learning. The framework consists of a semi-supervised cross-domain structure that integrates both source labeled data and a portion of target unlabeled data to establish the relationship between domains. A consistency regularization branch is introduced to stabilize model outputs by aligning predictions on the target unlabeled data under input perturbations. Additionally, a pseudo-centroid contrastive representation learning module is incorporated to enhance intra-category feature consistency while improving the separability of inter-category representations, aiding the model in adapting to classification tasks across diverse domains. The effectiveness of the proposed CDPCR framework is validated through comprehensive experiments conducted across 8 cross-domain scenarios using remote sensing scene classification datasets.