Classification of hyperspectral images using fusion of CNN and MiniGCN with SVM

Abstract

ABSTRACT Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have gained popularity for categorizing hyperspectral (HS) images due to their ability to capture representations of spatial-spectral features. However, their ability to model relationships between data is limited. Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have been introduced as an alternative, as they are effective in representing and analyzing irregular data beyond grid sampling constraints. While GCNs have traditionally been computationally intensive, minibatch GCNs (miniGCNs) enable minibatch training of large-scale GCNs. We have improved the classification performance by using miniGCNs to infer out-of-sample data without retraining the network. In addition, fuzing the capabilities of CNNs and GCNs, through concatenative fusion has been shown to improve performance compared to using CNNs or GCNs individually. Finally, support vector machine (SVM) is employed instead of softmax in the classification stage. These techniques were tested on two HS datasets and achieved an average accuracy of 92.80 using Indian Pines dataset, demonstrating the effectiveness of miniGCNs and fusion strategies.