A Synergistic CNN-Transformer Network with Pooling Attention Fusion for Hyperspectral Image Classification

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Auteurs principaux: Chen, Peng, He, Wenxuan, Qian, Feng, Shi, Guangyao, Yan, Jingwen
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author Chen, Peng
He, Wenxuan
Qian, Feng
Shi, Guangyao
Yan, Jingwen
author_facet Chen, Peng
He, Wenxuan
Qian, Feng
Shi, Guangyao
Yan, Jingwen
contents In the hyperspectral image (HSI) classification task, each pixel is categorized into a specific land-cover category or material. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transformers have been widely used to extract local and non-local features in HSI classification. Recent works have utilized a multi-scale vision transformer (ViT) to enhance spectral feature capture and yield promising results. However, most existing methods still face challenges in the effective joint use of spatial-spectral information and in preserving information across layers during the propagation process. To address these issues, we propose a synergistic CNN-Transformer network with pooling attention fusion for HSI classification, which collaboratively utilizes CNNs and ViT to process spatial and spectral features separately. Specifically, we propose a Twin-Branch Feature Extraction (TBFE) module, which employs 3D and 2D convolution in parallel to comprehensively extract spectral and spatial features from HSI. A hybrid pooling attention (HPA) module is designed to aggregate spatial attention. Moreover, a cascade transformer encoder is employed for global spectral feature extraction, and a simple yet efficient cross-layer feature fusion (CFF) module is designed to reduce the loss of crucial information in the previous network layers. Extensive experiments are conducted on several representative datasets to demonstrate the superior performance of our proposed method compared to the state-of-the-art works. Code is available at https://github.com/chenpeng052/SCT-Net.git.
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spellingShingle A Synergistic CNN-Transformer Network with Pooling Attention Fusion for Hyperspectral Image Classification
Chen, Peng
He, Wenxuan
Qian, Feng
Shi, Guangyao
Yan, Jingwen
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
In the hyperspectral image (HSI) classification task, each pixel is categorized into a specific land-cover category or material. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transformers have been widely used to extract local and non-local features in HSI classification. Recent works have utilized a multi-scale vision transformer (ViT) to enhance spectral feature capture and yield promising results. However, most existing methods still face challenges in the effective joint use of spatial-spectral information and in preserving information across layers during the propagation process. To address these issues, we propose a synergistic CNN-Transformer network with pooling attention fusion for HSI classification, which collaboratively utilizes CNNs and ViT to process spatial and spectral features separately. Specifically, we propose a Twin-Branch Feature Extraction (TBFE) module, which employs 3D and 2D convolution in parallel to comprehensively extract spectral and spatial features from HSI. A hybrid pooling attention (HPA) module is designed to aggregate spatial attention. Moreover, a cascade transformer encoder is employed for global spectral feature extraction, and a simple yet efficient cross-layer feature fusion (CFF) module is designed to reduce the loss of crucial information in the previous network layers. Extensive experiments are conducted on several representative datasets to demonstrate the superior performance of our proposed method compared to the state-of-the-art works. Code is available at https://github.com/chenpeng052/SCT-Net.git.
title A Synergistic CNN-Transformer Network with Pooling Attention Fusion for Hyperspectral Image Classification
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23622