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AGSA-Net advances hyperspectral image classification by embedding physical spectral unmixing constraints directly into a self-attention architecture, effectively bridging the gap between material composition modeling and deep learning feature extraction. This approach demonstrates improved performance in heterogeneous urban environments by using estimated subpixel abundance maps to guide transformer interactions rather than treating them as mere auxiliary features. The method represents a significant step toward physically interpretable AI models for remote sensing applications.
AGSA-Net: Abundance-Guided Self-Attention Network for Spectral Unmixing-Aware Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Image Classification
arXiv:2609.06359v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hyperspectral image (HSI) classification plays a vital role in remote sensing applications, including agriculture, environmental monitoring, and urban analysis. However, its performance remains challenged by high spectral redundancy, noise sensitivity, and the difficulty of jointly modeling local material composition and long-range spectral dependencies. To address this, we propose AGSA-Net, an abundance-guided self-attention network that explicitly integrates spectral unmixing priors into the classification process. AGSA Net first estimates physically meaningful subpixel abundance maps subject to non-negativity and sum-to-one constraints, regularized by hybrid linear-nonlinear reconstruction decoder. The learned abundances are then used to construct an abundance affinity prior that guides a spectral transformer to emphasize class-discriminative interactions, and the resulting transformer features are fused with compact abundance descriptors for final prediction; in contrast to existing approaches that use abundance as auxiliary or concatenated features. Experiments on Indian Pines, Augsburg, and Berlin demonstrate the benefit of incorporating abundance- guided contextual modeling, particularly in heterogeneous urban scenes. The source code and trained models are available at: https://github.com/nnuvi/AGSA-Net
Abstract:Hyperspectral image (HSI) classification plays a vital role in remote sensing applications, including agriculture, environmental monitoring, and urban analysis. However, its performance remains challenged by high spectral redundancy, noise sensitivity, and the difficulty of jointly modeling local material composition and long-range spectral dependencies. To address this, we propose AGSA-Net, an abundance-guided self-attention network that explicitly integrates spectral unmixing priors into the classification process. AGSA Net first estimates physically meaningful subpixel abundance maps subject to non-negativity and sum-to-one constraints, regularized by hybrid linear-nonlinear reconstruction decoder. The learned abundances are then used to construct an abundance affinity prior that guides a spectral transformer to emphasize class-discriminative interactions, and the resulting transformer features are fused with compact abundance descriptors for final prediction; in contrast to existing approaches that use abundance as auxiliary or concatenated features. Experiments on Indian Pines, Augsburg, and Berlin demonstrate the benefit of incorporating abundance- guided contextual modeling, particularly in heterogeneous urban scenes. The source code and trained models are available at: this https URL
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
arXiv:2609.06359 [cs.CV]
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