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Triplet-Watershed for Hyperspectral Image Classification

17 Mar 2021arXiv:2103.09384archive 2025-07-28

Aditya Challa, Sravan Danda, B. S. Daya Sagar, Laurent Najman

Hyperspectral images (HSI) consist of rich spatial and spectral information, which can potentially be used for several applications. However, noise, band correlations and high dimensionality restrict the applicability of such data. This is recently addressed using creative deep learning network architectures such as ResNet, SSRN, and A2S2K. However, the last layer, i.e the classification layer, remains unchanged and is taken to be the softmax classifier. In this article, we propose to use a watershed classifier. Watershed classifier extends the watershed operator from Mathematical Morphology for classification. In its vanilla form, the watershed classifier does not have any trainable parameters. In this article, we propose a novel approach to train deep learning networks to obtain representations suitable for the watershed classifier. The watershed classifier exploits the connectivity patterns, a characteristic of HSI datasets, for better inference. We show that exploiting such characteristics allows the Triplet-Watershed to achieve state-of-art results in supervised and semi-supervised contexts. These results are validated on Indianpines (IP), University of Pavia (UP), Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and University of Houston (UH) datasets, relying on simple convnet architecture using a quarter of parameters compared to previous state-of-the-art networks. The source code for reproducing the experiments and supplementary material (high resolution images) is available at https://github.com/ac20/TripletWatershed Code.

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Classification General Classification Hyperspectral Image Classification Image Classification image-classification

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1x1 Convolution Average Pooling Batch Normalization Bottleneck Residual Block Convolution Global Average Pooling Kaiming Initialization Max Pooling ReLU Residual Block Residual Connection Softmax

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