HybridGBN-SR: A Deep 3D/2D Genome Graph-Based Network for Hyperspectral Image Classification

Abstract

The successful application of deep learning approaches in remote sensing image classification requires large hyperspectral image (HSI) datasets to learn discriminative spectral–spatial features simultaneously. To date, the HSI datasets available for image classification are relatively small to train deep learning methods. This study proposes a deep 3D/2D genome graph-based network (abbreviated as HybridGBN-SR) that is computationally efficient and not prone to overfitting even with extremely few training sample data. At the feature extraction level, the HybridGBN-SR utilizes the three-dimensional (3D) and two-dimensional (2D) Genoblocks trained using very few samples while improving HSI classification accuracy. The design of a Genoblock is based on a biological genome graph. From the experimental results, the study shows that our model achieves better classification accuracy than the compared state-of-the-art methods over the three publicly available HSI benchmarking datasets such as the Indian Pines (IP), the University of Pavia (UP), and the Salinas Scene (SA). For instance, using only 5% labeled data for training in IP, and 1% in UP and SA, the overall classification accuracy of the proposed HybridGBN-SR is 97.42%, 97.85%, and 99.34%, respectively, which is better than the compared state-of-the-art methods.