Center-Highlighted Multiscale CNN for Classification of Hyperspectral Images

Hyperspectral images (HSIs) capture a wide range of spectral features across multiple bands of light, from visible to near-infrared. Hyperspectral image classification technology enables researchers to accurately identify and analyze the composition and distribution of surface materials. Current mainstream deep learning methods typically use block sampling to capture spatial features for the model. However, this approach can affect classification results due to the influence of neighboring features within the sample block. To improve the model’s focus on the center of the sampling block, this study proposes a center highlight with multiscale CNN for hyperspectral image classification (CHMSC). The network utilizes an automatic channel selector (Auto-CHS) to fully consider every channel feature and capture the correlation between the channels. Then, CHMSC enhances the model’s ability to concentrate on the central features of the sampling block utilizing structures such as the center highlight. Finally, before outputting the prediction results, an SENet is employed to further refine the features and learn associate interactions between different scales of spatial features and spectral features. Experimental results from three hyperspectral datasets validate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Specifically, when 15 samples from each class are selected for training, CHMSC achieves the highest overall accuracy (OA) of 90.05%, 92.78%, and 90.15% on the three datasets, outperforming other methods with increases of more than 3.11%, 1.8%, and 2.01% in OA, respectively.