EBARec-BS: Effective Band Attention Reconstruction Network for Hyperspectral Imagery Band Selection

• Main Authors: Yufei Liu, Xiaorun Li, Ziqiang Hua, Liaoying Zhao
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2021-09-01
• Series: Remote Sensing
• Subjects: hyperspectral image (HSI); unsupervised band selection; convolutional autoencoder (CAE); band attention
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/18/3602

Hyperspectral band selection (BS) is an effective means to avoid the Hughes phenomenon and heavy computational burden in hyperspectral image processing. However, most of the existing BS methods fail to fully consider the interaction between spectral bands and cannot comprehensively consider the representativeness and redundancy of the selected band subset. To solve these problems, we propose an unsupervised effective band attention reconstruction framework for band selection (EBARec-BS) in this article. The framework utilizes the EBARec network to learn the representativeness of each band to the original band set and measures the redundancy between the bands by calculating the distance of each unselected band to the selected band subset. Subsequently, by designing an adaptive weight to balance the influence of the representativeness metric and redundancy metric on the band evaluation, a final band scoring function is obtained to select a band subset that well represents the original hyperspectral image and has low redundancy. Experiments on three well-known hyperspectral data sets indicate that compared with the existing BS methods, the proposed EBARec-BS is robust to noise bands and can effectively select the band subset with higher classification accuracy and less redundant information.