Spatial-Spectral-Semantic Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning for Hyperspectral Image Classification

Preprocessing procedures are commonly employed to reduce water-absorption bands and noise in hyperspectral images (HSIs). Nevertheless, they typically do not entirely eradicate noise. This is especially evident in scenarios that necessitate data of exceptional quality, such as cross-domain few-shot classification tasks. Within these specific conditions, the influence of remaining background noise on the ultimate results of classification is substantial. Furthermore, the presence of sample selection biases in the few-shot task might lead to the emergence of false statistical correlations between data from distinct domains, resulting in a decrease in the model's ability to generalize. We propose a new method called spatial-spectral-semantic cross-domain few-shot learning ((SCFSL)-C-3) to address the challenge. This method promotes the learning of transferable information by incorporating feature denoising operations in the feature extraction process to restore essential information. Concurrently, it enhances cross-domain distributional consistency by introducing a semantic-aware strategy to strengthen the association between cross-domain data and semantic information. Specifically, the spatial and spectral dual channels (SSDCs), in conjunction with the cross-spatial-spectral transformer (CSST), are designed as a feature extractor to acquire interactive spatial-spectral features. The feature-denoising operations can further acquiring transferable information from cross-domain features, thus facilitating meta-learning in both the source domain (SD) and the target domain (TD). Meanwhile, a semantic-enhanced domain alignment (SEDA) is designed to promote domain adaptation by using a semantic-aware strategy, which significantly enhances distributional consistency for cross-domain tasks. Our results exhibit exceptional classification efficacy in comparison to other state-of-the-art approaches on three public HSI datasets.