SDHSI-Net: Learning Better Representations for Hyperspectral Images via Self-Distillation

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Main Authors: Singh, Prachet Dev, Paramasivam, Shyamsundar, Barman, Sneha, Singha, Mainak, Jha, Ankit, Mishra, Girish, Banerjee, Biplab
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Published: 2026
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author Singh, Prachet Dev
Paramasivam, Shyamsundar
Barman, Sneha
Singha, Mainak
Jha, Ankit
Mishra, Girish
Banerjee, Biplab
author_facet Singh, Prachet Dev
Paramasivam, Shyamsundar
Barman, Sneha
Singha, Mainak
Jha, Ankit
Mishra, Girish
Banerjee, Biplab
contents Hyperspectral image (HSI) classification presents unique challenges due to its high spectral dimensionality and limited labeled data. Traditional deep learning models often suffer from overfitting and high computational costs. Self-distillation (SD), a variant of knowledge distillation where a network learns from its own predictions, has recently emerged as a promising strategy to enhance model performance without requiring external teacher networks. In this work, we explore the application of SD to HSI by treating earlier outputs as soft targets, thereby enforcing consistency between intermediate and final predictions. This process improves intra-class compactness and inter-class separability in the learned feature space. Our approach is validated on two benchmark HSI datasets and demonstrates significant improvements in classification accuracy and robustness, highlighting the effectiveness of SD for spectral-spatial learning. Codes are available at https://github.com/Prachet-Dev-Singh/SDHSI.
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spellingShingle SDHSI-Net: Learning Better Representations for Hyperspectral Images via Self-Distillation
Singh, Prachet Dev
Paramasivam, Shyamsundar
Barman, Sneha
Singha, Mainak
Jha, Ankit
Mishra, Girish
Banerjee, Biplab
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Hyperspectral image (HSI) classification presents unique challenges due to its high spectral dimensionality and limited labeled data. Traditional deep learning models often suffer from overfitting and high computational costs. Self-distillation (SD), a variant of knowledge distillation where a network learns from its own predictions, has recently emerged as a promising strategy to enhance model performance without requiring external teacher networks. In this work, we explore the application of SD to HSI by treating earlier outputs as soft targets, thereby enforcing consistency between intermediate and final predictions. This process improves intra-class compactness and inter-class separability in the learned feature space. Our approach is validated on two benchmark HSI datasets and demonstrates significant improvements in classification accuracy and robustness, highlighting the effectiveness of SD for spectral-spatial learning. Codes are available at https://github.com/Prachet-Dev-Singh/SDHSI.
title SDHSI-Net: Learning Better Representations for Hyperspectral Images via Self-Distillation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.07416