Multi-view Graph Convolutional Network with Spectral Component Decompose for Remote Sensing Images Classification

Abstract

Automatic land cover classification from high-resolution remote sensing (RS) images remains challenging due to the complex composition of classes. Given the potential of a graph to simulate latent class composition, the latest development of graph convolutional network (GCN) has received increasing attention. However, most existing methods only use a single perspective graph structure, which largely limits their ability to capture the complementary features that would better represent the underlying data structure of images. Therefore, this paper proposes a novel multi-view GCN-based representation learning network(MvRLNet) for RS image classification. First, a superpixel-based spectral component decomposes module(SSCDM) is designed to enhance the uniqueness and homogeneity of graph nodes because the mixed superpixels may lead to miscellaneous information on graph aggregations. Second, a multi-view graph learning module(MGLM) is proposed to integrate topology and spectral graph information into a unified network with an effective feature learning strategy. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed MvRLNet is validated on a variety datasets with different resolutions. The experimental results show that the proposed MvRLNet performs better than state-of-the-art techniques.