SpectralDiff: Hyperspectral Image Classification with Spectral-Spatial Diffusion Models

Hyperspectral image (HSI) classification is an important topic in the field of remote sensing, and has a wide range of applications in Earth science. HSIs contain hundreds of continuous bands, which are characterized by high dimension and high correlation between adjacent bands. The high dimension and redundancy of HSI data bring great difficulties to HSI classification. In recent years, a large number of HSI feature extraction and classification methods based on deep learning have been proposed. However, their ability to model the global relationships among samples in both spatial and spectral domains is still limited. In order to solve this problem, an HSI classification method with spectral-spatial diffusion models is proposed. The proposed method realizes the reconstruction of spectral-spatial distribution of the training samples with the forward and reverse spectral-spatial diffusion process, thus modeling the global spatial-spectral relationship between samples. Then, we use the spectral-spatial denoising network of the reverse process to extract the unsupervised diffusion features. Features extracted by the spectral-spatial diffusion models can achieve cross-sample perception from the reconstructed distribution of the training samples, thus obtaining better classification performance. Experiments on three public HSI datasets show that the proposed method can achieve better performance than the state-of-the-art methods. The source code and the pre-trained spectral-spatial diffusion model will be publicly available at https://github.com/chenning0115/SpectralDiff.