Fuding Xie

Bio: Fuding Xie is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Deep learning & Hyperspectral imaging. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 9 citations.

Hyperspectral Image Classification Based on Superpixel Pooling Convolutional Neural Network with Transfer Learning

Abstract: Deep learning-based hyperspectral image (HSI) classification has attracted more and more attention because of its excellent classification ability. Generally, the outstanding performance of these methods mainly depends on a large number of labeled samples. Therefore, it still remains an ongoing challenge how to integrate spatial structure information into these frameworks to classify the HSI with limited training samples. In this study, an effective spectral-spatial HSI classification scheme is proposed based on superpixel pooling convolutional neural network with transfer learning (SP-CNN). The suggested method includes three stages. The first part consists of convolution and pooling operation, which is a down-sampling process to extract the main spectral features of an HSI. The second part is composed of up-sampling and superpixel (homogeneous regions with adaptive shape and size) pooling to explore the spatial structure information of an HSI. Finally, the hyperspectral data with each superpixel as a basic input rather than a pixel are fed to fully connected neural network. In this method, the spectral and spatial information is effectively fused by using superpixel pooling technique. The use of popular transfer learning technology in the proposed classification framework significantly improves the training efficiency of SP-CNN. To evaluate the effectiveness of the SP-CNN, extensive experiments were conducted on three common real HSI datasets acquired from different sensors. With 30 labeled pixels per class, the overall classification accuracy provided by this method on three benchmarks all exceeded 93%, which was at least 4.55% higher than that of several state-of-the-art approaches. Experimental and comparative results prove that the proposed algorithm can effectively classify the HSI with limited training labels.

A review of deep learning used in the hyperspectral image analysis for agriculture

Abstract: Hyperspectral imaging is a non-destructive, nonpolluting, and fast technology, which can capture up to several hundred images of different wavelengths and offer relevant spectral signatures. Hyperspectral imaging technology has achieved breakthroughs in the acquisition of agricultural information and the detection of external or internal quality attributes of the agricultural product. Deep learning techniques have boosted the performance of hyperspectral image analysis. Compared with traditional machine learning, deep learning architectures exploit both spatial and spectral information of hyperspectral image analysis. To scrutinize thoroughly the current efforts, provide insights, and identify potential research directions on deep learning for hyperspectral image analysis in agriculture, this paper presents a systematic and comprehensive review. Firstly, its applications in agriculture are summarized, include ripeness and component prediction, different classification themes, and plant disease detection. Then, the recent achievements are reviewed in hyperspectral image analysis from the aspects of the deep learning models and the feature networks. Finally, the existing challenges of hyperspectral image analysis based on deep learning are summarized and the prospects of future works are put forward.

Hyperspectral Image Classification Model Using Squeeze and Excitation Network with Deep Learning

Abstract: In the domain of remote sensing, the classification of hyperspectral image (HSI) has become a popular topic. In general, the complicated features of hyperspectral data cause the precise classification difficult for standard machine learning approaches. Deep learning-based HSI classification has lately received a lot of interest in the field of remote sensing and has shown promising results. As opposed to conventional hand-crafted feature-based classification approaches, deep learning can automatically learn complicated features of HSIs with a greater number of hierarchical layers. Because HSI's data structure is complicated, applying deep learning to it is difficult. The primary objective of this research is to propose a deep feature extraction model for HSI classification. Deep networks can extricate features of spatial and spectral from HSI data simultaneously, which is advantageous for increasing the performances of the proposed system. The squeeze and excitation (SE) network is combined with convolutional neural networks (SE-CNN) in this work to increase its performance in extracting features and classifying HSI. The squeeze and excitation block is designed to improve the representation quality of a CNN. Three benchmark datasets are utilized in the experiment to evaluate the proposed model: Pavia Centre, Pavia University, and Salinas. The proposed model's performance is validated by a performance comparison with current deep transfer learning approaches such as VGG-16, Inception-v3, and ResNet-50. In terms of accuracy on each class of datasets and overall accuracy, the proposed SE-CNN model outperforms the compared models. The proposed model achieved an overall accuracy of 96.05% for Pavia University, 98.94% for Pavia Centre dataset, and 96.33% for Salinas dataset.

Self-Matching CAM: A Novel Accurate Visual Explanation of CNNs for SAR Image Interpretation

Abstract: Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image interpretation has long been an important but challenging task in SAR imaging processing. Generally, SAR image interpretation comprises complex procedures including filtering, feature extraction, image segmentation, and target recognition, which greatly reduce the efficiency of data processing. In an era of deep learning, numerous automatic target recognition methods have been proposed based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) due to their strong capabilities for data abstraction and mining. In contrast to general methods, CNNs own an end-to-end structure where complex data preprocessing is not needed, thus the efficiency can be improved dramatically once a CNN is well trained. However, the recognition mechanism of a CNN is unclear, which hinders its application in many scenarios. In this paper, Self-Matching class activation mapping (CAM) is proposed to visualize what a CNN learns from SAR images to make a decision. Self-Matching CAM assigns a pixel-wise weight matrix to feature maps of different channels by matching them with the input SAR image. By using Self-Matching CAM, the detailed information of the target can be well preserved in an accurate visual explanation heatmap of a CNN for SAR image interpretation. Numerous experiments on a benchmark dataset (MSTAR) verify the validity of Self-Matching CAM.