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Multi-view clustering of remote sensing data plays a vital role in Earth observation analysis. Recently, deep graph clustering methods based on contrastive learning have significantly improved feature representation capabilities. However, most existing approaches treat all views equally, neglecting the inherent uniqueness and heterogeneity across views, which often results in two major issues: 1) discriminative features from clustering-friendly views are underexplored; and 2) redundant or noisy information from less informative views can degrade the shared representation. To address these challenges, we propose a novel multi-view graph clustering framework termed CF-MVGC for remote sensing data, which dynamically preserves discriminative features and suppresses redundancy by assessing view affinity. Specifically, we employ a dual-stage representation learning strategy to extract both view-specific discriminative features and cross-view consistent representations. To further exploit and adaptively integrate complementary information across views, we design a progressive feature filtering model that dynamically evaluates view affinity using two novel metrics, i.e., view fidelity index (VFI) and view criticality index (VCI). Based on these assessments, the module adaptively modulates feature update and reset signals, reinforcing informative views while suppressing noisy or redundant ones. Views with high affinity receive strengthened update signals to retain valuable features, while those with low affinity are subjected to enhanced reset operations to eliminate noise and redundancy. The resulting high-quality, discriminative representations lead to improved clustering performance, establishing a positive feedback loop. Experimental results on four benchmark datasets demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of CF-MVGC against its competitors.

AAAI 2026

Cross-View Progressive Feature Filtering for Multi-View Graph Clustering in Remote Sensing

multi-view clustering

remote sensing

technical paper

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quality. While previous work has considered distortions
caused by ego motion, distortions caused by other moving
objects remain largely overlooked, leading to errors in
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pronounced in high-speed environments such as highways and
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estimators often produce degenerate or inconsistent
estimates under high-speed distortion. We further propose
SeFlow++, a real-time scene flow estimator that achieves
state-of-the-art performance on both scene flow and motion
compensation. Since well-established motion distortion
metrics are absent in the literature, we introduce two
evaluation metrics: compensation accuracy at a point level
and shape similarity of objects. We validate HiMo through
extensive experiments on Argoverse 2, ZOD and a newly
collected real-world dataset featuring highway driving and
multi-LiDAR-equipped heavy vehicles. Our findings show that
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