基于双重注意力机制的遥感图像场景分类特征表示方法

针对遥感图像场景分类面临的类内差异性大、类间相似性高导致的部分场景出现分类混淆的问题，该文提出了一种基于双重注意力机制的强鉴别性特征表示方法。针对不同通道所代表特征的重要性程度以及不同局部区域的显著性程度不同，在卷积神经网络提取的高层特征基础上，分别设计了一个通道维和空间维注意力模块，利用循环神经网络的上下文信息提取能力，依次学习、输出不同通道和不同局部区域的重要性权重，更加关注图像中的显著性特征和显著性区域，而忽略非显著性特征和区域，以提高特征表示的鉴别能力。所提双重注意力模块可以与任意卷积神经网络相连，整个网络结构可以端到端训练。通过在两个公开数据集AID和NWPU45上进行大量的对比实验，验证了所提方法的有效性，与现有方法对比，分类准确率取得了明显的提升。

A Discriminative Feature Representation Method Based on Dual Attention Mechanism for Remote Sensing Image Scene Classification

Considering the problem of low classification accuracy caused by large intra-class differences and high inter-class similarity in remote sensing image scene classification, a discriminative feature representation method based on dual attention mechanism is proposed. Due to the difference in the importance of the features contained in different channels and the significance of different local regions, the channel-wise and spatial-wise attention module are designed, based on the high-level features extracted by the Convolutional Neural Networks. Relying on the ability to extract contextual information, the Recurrent Neural Network is adopted to learn and output the importance weights of different channels and different local regions, paying more attention to the salient features and salient regions, while ignoring non-salience features and regions, to enhance the discriminative ability of feature representation. The proposed dual attention module can be connected to the last convolutional layer of any convolutional neural network, and the network structure can be trained end-to-end. Comparative experiments are conducted on the two public data sets AID and NWPU45. Compared with the existing methods, the classification accuracy has been significantly improved, and the effectiveness of the proposed method can be verified.