Remote Sensing Image Classification Using Deep Ensemble Learning

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Autori principali: Islam, Niful, Ahmed, Md. Rayhan, Fahad, Nur Mohammad, Islam, Salekul, Islam, A. K. M. Muzahidul, Mukta, Saddam, Shatabda, Swakkhar
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author Islam, Niful
Ahmed, Md. Rayhan
Fahad, Nur Mohammad
Islam, Salekul
Islam, A. K. M. Muzahidul
Mukta, Saddam
Shatabda, Swakkhar
author_facet Islam, Niful
Ahmed, Md. Rayhan
Fahad, Nur Mohammad
Islam, Salekul
Islam, A. K. M. Muzahidul
Mukta, Saddam
Shatabda, Swakkhar
contents Remote sensing imagery plays a crucial role in many applications and requires accurate computerized classification techniques. Reliable classification is essential for transforming raw imagery into structured and usable information. While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are mostly used for image classification, they excel at local feature extraction, but struggle to capture global contextual information. Vision Transformers (ViTs) address this limitation through self attention mechanisms that model long-range dependencies. Integrating CNNs and ViTs, therefore, leads to better performance than standalone architectures. However, the use of additional CNN and ViT components does not lead to further performance improvement and instead introduces a bottleneck caused by redundant feature representations. In this research, we propose a fusion model that combines the strengths of CNNs and ViTs for remote sensing image classification. To overcome the performance bottleneck, the proposed approach trains four independent fusion models that integrate CNN and ViT backbones and combine their outputs at the final prediction stage through ensembling. The proposed method achieves accuracy rates of 98.10 percent, 94.46 percent, and 95.45 percent on the UC Merced, RSSCN7, and MSRSI datasets, respectively. These results outperform competing architectures and highlight the effectiveness of the proposed solution, particularly due to its efficient use of computational resources during training.
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spellingShingle Remote Sensing Image Classification Using Deep Ensemble Learning
Islam, Niful
Ahmed, Md. Rayhan
Fahad, Nur Mohammad
Islam, Salekul
Islam, A. K. M. Muzahidul
Mukta, Saddam
Shatabda, Swakkhar
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Remote sensing imagery plays a crucial role in many applications and requires accurate computerized classification techniques. Reliable classification is essential for transforming raw imagery into structured and usable information. While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are mostly used for image classification, they excel at local feature extraction, but struggle to capture global contextual information. Vision Transformers (ViTs) address this limitation through self attention mechanisms that model long-range dependencies. Integrating CNNs and ViTs, therefore, leads to better performance than standalone architectures. However, the use of additional CNN and ViT components does not lead to further performance improvement and instead introduces a bottleneck caused by redundant feature representations. In this research, we propose a fusion model that combines the strengths of CNNs and ViTs for remote sensing image classification. To overcome the performance bottleneck, the proposed approach trains four independent fusion models that integrate CNN and ViT backbones and combine their outputs at the final prediction stage through ensembling. The proposed method achieves accuracy rates of 98.10 percent, 94.46 percent, and 95.45 percent on the UC Merced, RSSCN7, and MSRSI datasets, respectively. These results outperform competing architectures and highlight the effectiveness of the proposed solution, particularly due to its efficient use of computational resources during training.
title Remote Sensing Image Classification Using Deep Ensemble Learning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.05844