Remote sensing image processing engaged researchers’attentiveness in recent years,especially classification.The main problem in classification is the ratio of the correct predictions after training.Feature extraction...Remote sensing image processing engaged researchers’attentiveness in recent years,especially classification.The main problem in classification is the ratio of the correct predictions after training.Feature extraction is the foremost important step to build high-performance image classifiers.The convolution neural networks can extract images’features that significantly improve the image classifiers’accuracy.This paper proposes two efficient approaches for remote sensing images classification that utilizes the concatenation of two convolution channels’outputs as a features extraction using two classic convolution models;these convolution models are the ResNet 50 and the DenseNet 169.These elicited features have been used by the fully connected neural network classifier and support vector machine classifier as input features.The results of the proposed methods are compared with other antecedent approaches in the same experimental environments.Evaluation is based on learning curves plotted during the training of the proposed classifier that is based on a fully connected neural network and measuring the overall accuracy for the both proposed classifiers.The proposed classifiers are used with their trained weights to predict a big remote sensing scene’s classes for a developed test.Experimental results ensure that,compared with the other traditional classifiers,the proposed classifiers are further accurate.展开更多
基金The authors would like to thank the Deanship of Scientific Research,Taif University Researchers Supporting Project Number(TURSP-2020/239),Taif University,Taif,Saudi Arabia for supporting this research work.
文摘Remote sensing image processing engaged researchers’attentiveness in recent years,especially classification.The main problem in classification is the ratio of the correct predictions after training.Feature extraction is the foremost important step to build high-performance image classifiers.The convolution neural networks can extract images’features that significantly improve the image classifiers’accuracy.This paper proposes two efficient approaches for remote sensing images classification that utilizes the concatenation of two convolution channels’outputs as a features extraction using two classic convolution models;these convolution models are the ResNet 50 and the DenseNet 169.These elicited features have been used by the fully connected neural network classifier and support vector machine classifier as input features.The results of the proposed methods are compared with other antecedent approaches in the same experimental environments.Evaluation is based on learning curves plotted during the training of the proposed classifier that is based on a fully connected neural network and measuring the overall accuracy for the both proposed classifiers.The proposed classifiers are used with their trained weights to predict a big remote sensing scene’s classes for a developed test.Experimental results ensure that,compared with the other traditional classifiers,the proposed classifiers are further accurate.
