DALF: An AI Enabled Adversarial Framework for Classification of Hyperspectral Images

Abstract

Hyperspectral image classification is very complex and challenging process. However, with deep neural networks like Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) with explicit dimensionality reduction, the capability of classifier is greatly increased. However, there is still problem with sufficient training samples. In this paper, we overcome this problem by proposing an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based framework named Deep Adversarial Learning Framework (DALF) that exploits deep autoencoder for dimensionality reduction, Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) for generating new Hyperspectral Imaging (HSI) samples that are to be verified by a discriminator in a non-cooperative game setting besides using a classifier. Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is used for both generator and discriminator while classifier role is played by Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Neural Network (NN). An algorithm named Generative Model based Hybrid Approach for HSI Classification (GMHA-HSIC) which drives the functionality of the proposed framework is proposed. The success of DALF in accurate classification is largely dependent on the synthesis and labelling of spectra on regular basis. The synthetic samples made with an iterative process and being verified by discriminator result in useful spectra. By training GAN with associated deep learning models, the framework leverages classification performance. Our experimental results revealed that the proposed framework has potential to improve the state of the art besides having an effective data augmentation strategy.