scholarly journals Remote Sensing Image Scene Classification Based on Global Self-Attention Module

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 4542
Author(s):  
Qingwen Li ◽  
Dongmei Yan ◽  
Wanrong Wu

The complexity of scene images makes the research on remote-sensing image scene classification challenging. With the wide application of deep learning in recent years, many remote-sensing scene classification methods using a convolutional neural network (CNN) have emerged. Current CNN usually output global information by integrating the depth features extricated from the convolutional layer through the fully connected layer; however, the global information extracted is not comprehensive. This paper proposes an improved remote-sensing image scene classification method based on a global self-attention module to address this problem. The global information is derived from the depth characteristics extracted by the CNN. In order to better express the semantic information of the remote-sensing image, the multi-head self-attention module is introduced for global information augmentation. Meanwhile, the local perception unit is utilized to improve the self-attention module’s representation capabilities for local objects. The proposed method’s effectiveness is validated through comparative experiments with various training ratios and different scales on public datasets (UC Merced, AID, and NWPU-NESISC45). The precision of our proposed model is significantly improved compared to other methods for remote-sensing image scene classification.

Author(s):  
Y. Yao ◽  
H. Zhao ◽  
D. Huang ◽  
Q. Tan

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Remote sensing image scene classification has gained remarkable attention, due to its versatile use in different applications like geospatial object detection, ground object information extraction, environment monitoring and etc. The scene not only contains the information of the ground objects, but also includes the spatial relationship between the ground objects and the environment. With rapid growth of the amount of remote sensing image data, the need for automatic annotation methods for image scenes is more urgent. This paper proposes a new framework for high resolution remote sensing images scene classification based on convolutional neural network. To eliminate the requirement of fixed-size input image, multiple pyramid pooling strategy is equipped between convolutional layers and fully connected layers. Then, the fixed-size features generated by multiple pyramid pooling layer was extended to one-dimension fixed-length vector and fed into fully connected layers. Our method could generate a fixed-length representation regardless of image size, at the same time get higher classification accuracy. On UC-Merced and NWPU-RESISC45 datasets, our framework achieved satisfying accuracies, which is 93.24% and 88.62% respectively.</p>


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Zhang ◽  
Ping Tang ◽  
Lijun Zhao

Remote sensing image scene classification is one of the most challenging problems in understanding high-resolution remote sensing images. Deep learning techniques, especially the convolutional neural network (CNN), have improved the performance of remote sensing image scene classification due to the powerful perspective of feature learning and reasoning. However, several fully connected layers are always added to the end of CNN models, which is not efficient in capturing the hierarchical structure of the entities in the images and does not fully consider the spatial information that is important to classification. Fortunately, capsule network (CapsNet), which is a novel network architecture that uses a group of neurons as a capsule or vector to replace the neuron in the traditional neural network and can encode the properties and spatial information of features in an image to achieve equivariance, has become an active area in the classification field in the past two years. Motivated by this idea, this paper proposes an effective remote sensing image scene classification architecture named CNN-CapsNet to make full use of the merits of these two models: CNN and CapsNet. First, a CNN without fully connected layers is used as an initial feature maps extractor. In detail, a pretrained deep CNN model that was fully trained on the ImageNet dataset is selected as a feature extractor in this paper. Then, the initial feature maps are fed into a newly designed CapsNet to obtain the final classification result. The proposed architecture is extensively evaluated on three public challenging benchmark remote sensing image datasets: the UC Merced Land-Use dataset with 21 scene categories, AID dataset with 30 scene categories, and the NWPU-RESISC45 dataset with 45 challenging scene categories. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can lead to a competitive classification performance compared with the state-of-the-art methods.


2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 968-972 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tianyu Wei ◽  
Jue Wang ◽  
Wenchao Liu ◽  
He Chen ◽  
Hao Shi

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 1950
Author(s):  
Cuiping Shi ◽  
Xin Zhao ◽  
Liguo Wang

In recent years, with the rapid development of computer vision, increasing attention has been paid to remote sensing image scene classification. To improve the classification performance, many studies have increased the depth of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and expanded the width of the network to extract more deep features, thereby increasing the complexity of the model. To solve this problem, in this paper, we propose a lightweight convolutional neural network based on attention-oriented multi-branch feature fusion (AMB-CNN) for remote sensing image scene classification. Firstly, we propose two convolution combination modules for feature extraction, through which the deep features of images can be fully extracted with multi convolution cooperation. Then, the weights of the feature are calculated, and the extracted deep features are sent to the attention mechanism for further feature extraction. Next, all of the extracted features are fused by multiple branches. Finally, depth separable convolution and asymmetric convolution are implemented to greatly reduce the number of parameters. The experimental results show that, compared with some state-of-the-art methods, the proposed method still has a great advantage in classification accuracy with very few parameters.


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