¹National College of Business Administration & Economics Multan, Pakistan.
²Department of Information Science, University of Education Lahore, Pakistan.
³Institute of Southern Punjab Multan, Pakistan.
⁴Muhammad Nawaz Shareef University of Agriculture Multan, Pakistan.
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Abstract—Deep neural networks are providing a powerful solution for remote-sensing scene image classification. However, a limited number of training samples, inter-class similarity among scene categories, and to get the benefits of multi-layer features remains a significant challenge in the remote sensing domain. Many efforts have been proposed to deal the above challenges by adapting knowledge of state-of-the-art networks such as AlexNet, GoogleNet, OverFeat, etc. However, these networks have high number of parameters. This research proposes a five-layer architecture which has fewer parameters compared with above state-of-the-art networks, and can be also complementary to other convolutional neural network features. Extensive experiments on UC Merced and WHU-RS datasets prove that although our network decreases the number of parameters dramatically, it generates more accurate results than AlexNet, OverFeat, and its accuracy is comparable with other state-of-the-art methods.

Index Terms—Satellite image classification, convolutional neural network, feature fusion.

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Cite: Muhammad Ashad Baloch, Sajid Ali, Mubashir H.Malik, Aamir Hussain, Abdul Mustaan Madni, "An Efficient Convolutional Neural Network for Remote-Sensing Scene Image Classification" Journal of Computers vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 48-58 , 2020.
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