Evolutionary Optimization of Neural Architectures in Remote Sensing Classification Problems

BigEarthNet is one of the standard large remote sensing datasets. It has been shown previously that neural networks are effective tools to classify the image patches in this data. However, finding the optimum network hyperparameters and architecture to accurately classify the image patches in BigEarthNet remains a challenge. Searching for more accurate models manually is extremely time consuming and labour intensive. Hence, a systematic approach is advisable. One possibility is automated evolutionary Neural Architecture Search (NAS). With this NAS many of the commonly used network hyperparameters, such as loss functions, are eliminated and a more accurate network is determined