Abstract
Hyperspectral images are widely used for classification due to its rich spectral information along with spatial information. To process the high dimensionality and high nonlinearity of hyperspectral images, deep learning methods based on convolutional neural network (CNN) are widely used in hyperspectral classification applications. However, most CNN structures are stacked vertically in addition to using a onefold size of convolutional kernels or pooling layers, which cannot fully mine the multiscale information on the hyperspectral images. When such networks meet the practical challenge of a limited labeled hyperspectral image dataset—i.e., “small sample problem”—the classification accuracy and generalization ability would be limited. In this paper, to tackle the small sample problem, we apply the semantic segmentation function to the pixel-level hyperspectral classification due to their comparability. A lightweight, multiscale squeeze-and-excitation pyramid pooling network (MSPN) is proposed. It consists of a multiscale 3D CNN module, a squeezing and excitation module, and a pyramid pooling module with 2D CNN. Such a hybrid 2D-3D-CNN MSPN framework can learn and fuse deeper hierarchical spatial–spectral features with fewer training samples. The proposed MSPN was tested on three publicly available hyperspectral classification datasets: Indian Pine, Salinas, and Pavia University. Using 5%, 0.5%, and 0.5% training samples of the three datasets, the classification accuracies of the MSPN were 96.09%, 97%, and 96.56%, respectively. In addition, we also selected the latest dataset with higher spatial resolution, named WHU-Hi-LongKou, as the challenge object. Using only 0.1% of the training samples, we could achieve a 97.31% classification accuracy, which is far superior to the state-of-the-art hyperspectral classification methods.
Highlights
Remote sensing via hyperspectral imaging is very powerful to capture a set of continuous images of a scene at each resolved narrow band over a wide spectral range
The obtained hyperspectral images are rich in spatial information and spectral information, which can be effectively applied for the classification and recognition of targets over the scene [1,2,3]
Other algorithms put an emphasis on feature discrimination enhancement or dimensionality reduction, such as principal component analysis (PCA) [13], independent component analysis (ICA) [14], linear discriminant analysis (LDA) [15], etc
Summary
Remote sensing via hyperspectral imaging is very powerful to capture a set of continuous images of a scene at each resolved narrow band over a wide spectral range. The obtained hyperspectral images are rich in spatial information and spectral information, which can be effectively applied for the classification and recognition of targets over the scene [1,2,3]. Other algorithms put an emphasis on feature discrimination enhancement or dimensionality reduction, such as principal component analysis (PCA) [13], independent component analysis (ICA) [14], linear discriminant analysis (LDA) [15], etc. These methods should follow classifiers to obtain the final results
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