Multireceptive field: An adaptive path aggregation graph neural framework for hyperspectral image classification

Abstract

In recent years, the applications of graph convolutional networks (GCNs) in hyperspectral image (HSI) classification have attracted much attention. However, hyperspectral classification faces problems such as complex noise effects, spectral variability, labelled training sample deficiency, and high spectral mixing between materials. Furthermore, the available GCN-based methods are computationally complex and cannot automatically adjust aggregate paths. To mitigate these issues, we propose a novel multiadaptive receptive field-based graph neural framework (MARP) for HSI classification. In our method, an adaptive receptive path aggregation (ARP) mechanism is proposed to suppress the impact of noise nodes on classification and automatically explore an adaptive receptive field, where a graph attention (GAT) neural network is introduced to learn the importance of different-sized neighbourhoods and a long short-term memory (LSTM) method is adopted to update the nodes and preserve the local convolutional features of the nodes. To address the problem that ARP may fall into a local optimum, we design a multiscale receptive mechanism. Extensive experimental results obtained on four public HSI datasets demonstrate that the proposed MARP method can mitigate oversmoothing and reduce computational complexity while achieving competitive performance when compared to several state-of-the-art methods.