Deep Transfer Learning based Fusion Model for Environmental Remote Sensing Image Classification Model
Anwer Mustafa Hilal, Fahd N. Al‐Wesabi, Khalid J. Alzahrani, Mesfer Al Duhayyim, Manar Ahmed Hamza, Mohammed Rizwanullah, Vicente García‐Díaz
Abstract
Remote-sensing images comprise massive amount of spatial and semantic data that can be employed for several applications. Presently, deep learning (DL) models for RS image processing become a familiar research area. Due to the advancements of recent satellite imaging sensors , the issue of huge amount of data processing becomes a challenging problem. To accomplish this, deep transfer learning (DTL) models are developed to resolve the semantic gap among various datasets This study develops a new DTL-based fusion model for environmental remote-sensing image classification, called DTLF-ERSIC technique. The proposed technique focuses on the design of fusion model to combine multiple feature vectors and thereby attains maximum classification performance. The DTLF-ERSIC technique incorporates the entropy-based fusion of three feature extraction techniques, namely, Discrete Local Binary Pattern (DLBP), Residual Network (ResNet50), and EfficientNet models. Besides, a rain optimization algorithm (ROA) with fuzzy rule-based classifier (FRC) is applied to predict the class labels of the test RS images and shows the novelty of the work. A comprehensive experimental analysis of the DTLF-ERSIC technique takes place on benchmark dataset and examined the results in terms of different performance measures. The simulation results reported the supremacy of the DTLF-ERSIC technique over the recent state-of-art techniques.