Hyperspectral CNN Classification with Limited Training Samples

Lloyd Windrim, Rishi Ramakrishnan, Arman Melkumyan and Richard Murphy

Abstract

Hyperspectral imaging sensors are becoming increasingly popular in robotics applications such as agriculture and mining, and allow per-pixel thematic classification of materials in a scene based on their unique spectral signatures. Recently, convolutional neural networks have shown remarkable performance for classification tasks, but require substantial amounts of labelled training data. This data must sufficiently cover the variability expected to be encountered in the environment. For hyperspectral data, one of the main variations encountered outdoors is due to incident illumination, which can change in spectral shape and intensity depending on the scene geometry. For example, regions occluded from the sun have a lower intensity and their incident irradiance skewed towards shorter wavelengths. In this work, a data augmentation strategy based on relighting is used during training of a hyperspectral convolutional neural network. It allows training to occur in the outdoor environment given only a small labelled region, which does not need to sufficiently represent the geometric variability of the entire scene. This is important for applications where obtaining large amounts of training data is labourious, hazardous or difficult, such as labelling pixels within shadows.

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DOI

10.5244/C.31.4
https://dx.doi.org/10.5244/C.31.4

Citation

Lloyd Windrim, Rishi Ramakrishnan, Arman Melkumyan and Richard Murphy. Hyperspectral CNN Classification with Limited Training Samples. In T.K. Kim, S. Zafeiriou, G. Brostow and K. Mikolajczyk, editors, Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), pages 4.1-4.12. BMVA Press, September 2017.

Bibtex

            @inproceedings{BMVC2017_4,
                title={Hyperspectral CNN Classification with Limited Training Samples},
                author={Lloyd Windrim, Rishi Ramakrishnan, Arman Melkumyan and Richard Murphy},
                year={2017},
                month={September},
                pages={4.1-4.12},
                articleno={4},
                numpages={12},
                booktitle={Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)},
                publisher={BMVA Press},
                editor={Tae-Kyun Kim, Stefanos Zafeiriou, Gabriel Brostow and Krystian Mikolajczyk},
                doi={10.5244/C.31.4},
                isbn={1-901725-60-X},
                url={https://dx.doi.org/10.5244/C.31.4}
            }