Title
GAF-NAU: Gramian Angular Field encoded Neighborhood Attention U-Net for Pixel-Wise Hyperspectral Image Classification
Abstract
Hyperspectral image (HSI) classification is the most vibrant area of research in the hyperspectral community due to the rich spectral information contained in HSI can greatly aid in identifying objects of interest. However, inherent non-linearity between materials and the corresponding spectral profiles brings two major challenges in HSI classification: interclass similarity and intraclass variability. Many advanced deep learning methods have attempted to address these issues from the perspective of a region/patch-based approach, instead of a pixel-based alternate. However, the patch-based approaches hypothesize that neighborhood pixels of a target pixel in a fixed spatial window belong to the same class. And this assumption is not always true. To address this problem, we herein propose a new deep learning architecture, namely Gramian Angular Field encoded Neighborhood Attention U-Net (GAF-NAU), for pixel-based HSI classification. The proposed method does not require regions or patches centered around a raw target pixel to perform 2D-CNN based classification, instead, our approach transforms 1D pixel vector in HSI into 2D angular feature space using Gramian Angular Field (GAF) and then embed it to a new neighborhood attention network to suppress irrelevant angular feature while emphasizing on pertinent features useful for HSI classification task. Evaluation results on three publicly available HSI datasets demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed model. The source code available at https://github.com/MAIN-Lab/GAF-NAU/
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/CVPRW56347.2022.00056
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
pixel-wise hyperspectral image classification,spectral profiles,interclass similarity,intraclass variability,patch-based approaches,neighborhood pixels,deep learning architecture,pixel-based HSI classification,2D-CNN based classification,1D pixel vector,2D angular feature space,neighborhood attention network,region-based approach,fixed spatial window,Gramian angular field encoded neighborhood attention U-net,GAF-NAU,angular feature suppression
Conference
2022
Issue
ISSN
ISBN
1
2160-7508
978-1-6654-8740-5
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
14
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sidike Paheding100.34
Abel A. Reyes200.34
Anush Kasaragod300.34
Thomas Oommen400.34