Title
Multimodal Ground-Based Cloud Classification Using Joint Fusion Convolutional Neural Network.
Abstract
The accurate ground-based cloud classification is a challenging task and still under development. The most current methods are limited to only taking the cloud visual features into consideration, which is not robust to the environmental factors. In this paper, we present the novel joint fusion convolutional neural network (JFCNN) to integrate the multimodal information for ground-based cloud classification. To learn the heterogeneous features (visual features and multimodal features) from the ground-based cloud data, we designed the proposed JFCNN as a two-stream structure which contains the vision subnetwork and multimodal subnetwork. We also proposed a novel layer named joint fusion layer to jointly learn two kinds of cloud features under one framework. After training the proposed JFCNN, we extracted the visual and multimodal features from the two subnetworks and integrated them using a weighted strategy. The proposed JFCNN was validated on the multimodal ground-based cloud (MGC) dataset and achieved remarkable performance, demonstrating its effectiveness for ground-based cloud classification task.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.3390/rs10060822
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
Field
DocType
ground-based cloud classification,joint fusion convolutional neural network,multimodal information,feature fusion
Joint fusion,Computer vision,Feature fusion,Pattern recognition,Convolutional neural network,Artificial intelligence,Geology,Subnetwork,Cloud computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
10
6
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
14
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shuang Liu13622.95
Mei Li2211.53
Zhong Zhang314132.42
Baihua Xiao437740.56
Xiaozhong Cao5155.41