Title
A Convolutional Neural Network Based On Grouping Structure For Scene Classification
Abstract
Convolutional neural network (CNN) is capable of automatically extracting image features and has been widely used in remote sensing image classifications. Feature extraction is an important and difficult problem in current research. In this paper, data augmentation for avoiding over fitting was attempted to enrich features of samples to improve the performance of a newly proposed convolutional neural network with UC-Merced and RSI-CB datasets for remotely sensed scene classifications. A multiple grouped convolutional neural network (MGCNN) for self-learning that is capable of promoting the efficiency of CNN was proposed, and the method of grouping multiple convolutional layers capable of being applied elsewhere as a plug-in model was developed. Meanwhile, a hyper-parameter C in MGCNN is introduced to probe into the influence of different grouping strategies for feature extraction. Experiments on the two selected datasets, the RSI-CB dataset and UC-Merced dataset, were carried out to verify the effectiveness of this newly proposed convolutional neural network, the accuracy obtained by MGCNN was 2% higher than the ResNet-50. An algorithm of attention mechanism was thus adopted and incorporated into grouping processes and a multiple grouped attention convolutional neural network (MGCNN-A) was therefore constructed to enhance the generalization capability of MGCNN. The additional experiments indicate that the incorporation of the attention mechanism to MGCNN slightly improved the accuracy of scene classification, but the robustness of the proposed network was enhanced considerably in remote sensing image classifications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.3390/rs13132457
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
attention mechanism, data augmentation, MGCNN, MGCNN-A, scene classification
Journal
13
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
13
1
0.37
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xuan Wu110.37
Zhijie Zhang232.10
Wanchang Zhang333.79
Yaning Yi410.37
Chuanrong Zhang573.75
Qiang Xu611.39