Multi-Scale Feature Extraction for Joint Classification of Hyperspectral and LiDAR Data

With the development of sensors,the application of multi-source remote sensing data has been widely concerned.Since hyperspectral image(HSI)contains rich spectral information while light detection and ranging(LiDAR)data contains elevation information,joint use of them for ground object classification can yield positive results,especially by building deep networks.Fortu-nately,multi-scale deep networks allow to expand the receptive fields of convolution without causing the computational and training problems associated with simply adding more network layers.In this work,a multi-scale feature fusion network is proposed for the joint classification of HSI and LiDAR data.First,we design a multi-scale spatial feature extraction module with cross-channel connections,by which spatial information of HSI data and elevation information of LiDAR data are extracted and fused.In addition,a multi-scale spectral feature extraction module is employed to extract the multi-scale spectral features of HSI data.Finally,joint multi-scale features are obtained by weighting and concatenation operations and then fed into the classifier.To verify the effective-ness of the proposed network,experiments are carried out on the MUUFL Gulfport and Trento datasets.The experimental results demonstrate that the classification performance of the proposed method is superior to that of other state-of-the-art methods.

Graph-Based Dimensionality Reduction for Hyperspectral Imagery: A Review

Hyperspectral image(HSI)contains a wealth of spectral information,which makes fine classification of ground objects possible.In the meanwhile,overly redundant information in HSI brings many challenges.Specifically,the lack of training samples and the high computational cost are the inevitable obstacles in the design of classifier.In order to solve these problems,dimensionality reduction is usually adopted.Recently,graph-based dimensionality reduction has become a hot topic.In this paper,the graph-based methods for HSI dimensionality reduction are summarized from the following aspects.1)The traditional graph-based methods employ Euclidean distance to explore the local information of samples in spectral feature space.2)The dimensionality-reduction methods based on sparse or collaborative representation regard the sparse or collaborative coefficients as graph weights to effectively reduce reconstruction errors and represent most important information of HSI in the dictionary.3)Improved methods based on sparse or collaborative graph have made great progress by considering global low-rank information,local intra-class information and spatial information.In order to compare typical techniques,three real HSI datasets were used to carry out relevant experiments,and then the experimental results were analysed and discussed.Finally,the future development of this research field is prospected.