Variational Generative Adversarial Network with Crossed Spatial and Spectral Interactions for Hyperspectral Image Classification

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been widely used in hyperspectral image classification (HSIC) tasks. However, the generated HSI virtual samples by VAEs are often ambiguous, and GANs are prone to the mode collapse, which lead the poor generalization abilities ultimately. Moreover, most of these models only consider the extraction of spectral or spatial features. They fail to combine the two branches interactively and ignore the correlation between them. Consequently, the variational generative adversarial network with crossed spatial and spectral interactions (CSSVGAN) was proposed in this paper, which includes a dual-branch variational Encoder to map spectral and spatial information to different latent spaces, a crossed interactive Generator to improve the quality of generated virtual samples, and a Discriminator stuck with a classifier to enhance the classification performance. Combining these three subnetworks, the proposed CSSVGAN achieves excellent classification by ensuring the diversity and interacting spectral and spatial features in a crossed manner. The superior experimental results on three datasets verify the effectiveness of this method