Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2023, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (12): 3715-3725.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2023.12.01

• Electronic Technology •    

Multi-class imbalance remote sensing image classification based on SMOTE and deep transfer convolutional neural network

Wei FENG1,*, Yijun LONG1, Yinghui QUAN1, Mengdao XING2   

  1. 1. School of Electronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi'an 710071, China
    2. Academy of Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, Xidian University, Xi'an 710071, China
  • Received:2022-07-06 Online:2023-11-25 Published:2023-12-05
  • Contact: Wei FENG

Abstract:

Among various applications in remote sensing image classification, deep learning has long suffered from inadequate valid labels, multi-class imbalance sample, and data distribution shift with time and space, which constrains the advantage of deep learning. A ground-covered classification method based on synthetic minority oversampling technique (SMOTE) and deep transfer convolutional neural network is proposed. The proposed approach creatively employs deep transfer learning to grasp the similarity between the same sample objects which, however, are under different spaces and time. In addition, it utilizes SMOTE to optimize and balance classification distribution in space with the aim to solve the problem of imbalance data classification and inadequate data in the target domain. Two groups of hyperspectral remote data are used to verify the proposed approach. As shown by the experimental results, the proposed approach is better in offering the solution for inadequate and imbalance data with a premier classification precision.

Key words: transfer learning, neural network, machine learning, data mining

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