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Hierarchical Multi-Scale Convolutional Neural Networks for Hyperspectral Image Classification
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Hierarchical Multi-Scale Convolutional Neural Networks for Hyperspectral Image Classification

Simin Li, Xueyu Zhu and Jie Bao
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), Vol.19(7), p.1714
04/01/2019
DOI: 10.3390/s19071714
PMCID: PMC6480716
PMID: 30974816
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https://doi.org/10.3390/s19071714View
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Abstract

Deep learning models combining spectral and spatial features have been proven to be effective for hyperspectral image (HSI) classification. However, most spatial feature integration methods only consider a single input spatial scale regardless of various shapes and sizes of objects over the image plane, leading to missing scale-dependent information. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical multi-scale convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with auxiliary classifiers (HMCNN-AC) to learn hierarchical multi-scale spectral-spatial features for HSI classification. First, to better exploit the spatial information, multi-scale image patches for each pixel are generated at different spatial scales. These multi-scale patches are all centered at the same central spectrum but with shrunken spatial scales. Then, we apply multi-scale CNNs to extract spectral-spatial features from each scale patch. The obtained multi-scale convolutional features are considered as structured sequential data with spectral-spatial dependency, and a bidirectional LSTM is proposed to capture the correlation and extract a hierarchical representation for each pixel. To better train the whole network, weighted auxiliary classifiers are employed for the multi-scale CNNs and optimized together with the main loss function. Experimental results on three public HSI datasets demonstrate the superiority of our proposed framework over some state-of-the-art methods.
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