In the last five years, deep learning has been introduced to tackle the hyperspectral image (HSI) classification and demonstrated good performance. In particular, the convolutional neural network (CNN)-based methods for HSI classification have made great progress. However, due to the high dimensionality of HSI and equal treatment of all bands, the performance of these methods is hampered by learning features from useless bands for classification. Moreover, for patchwise-based CNN models, equal treatment of spatial information from the pixel-centered neighborhood also hinders the performance of these methods. In this article, we propose an end-to-end residual spectral-spatial attention network (RSSAN) for HSI classification. The RSSAN takes raw 3-D cubes as input data without additional feature engineering. First, a spectral attention module is designed for spectral band selection from raw input data by emphasizing useful bands for classification and suppressing useless bands. Then, a spatial attention module is designed for the adaptive selection of spatial information by emphasizing pixels from the same class as the center pixel or those are useful for classification in the pixel-centered neighborhood and suppressing those from a different class or useless. Second, two attention modules are also used in the following CNN for adaptive feature refinement in spectral-spatial feature learning. Third, a sequential spectral-spatial attention module is embedded into a residual block to avoid overfitting and accelerate the training of the proposed model. Experimental studies demonstrate that the RSSAN achieved superior classification accuracy compared with the state of the art on three HSI data sets: Indian Pines (IN), University of Pavia (UP), and Kennedy Space Center (KSC).

Deep learning (DL) has become a hot topic in the research field of hyperspectral image (HSI) classification. However, with increasing depth and size of deep learning methods, its application in mobile and embedded vision applications has brought great challenges. In this article, we address a network architecture search (NAS)-guided lightweight spectral–spatial attention feature fusion network (LMAFN) for HSI classification. The overall architecture of the proposed network is guided by several conclusions of NAS, which achieves fewer parameters and lower computation cost with deeper network structure by exploiting multiscale Ghost grouped with efficient channel attention (ECA) module for adaptively adjusting the weights of different channels. It helps fully extract spectral–spatial discriminant features to avoid information loss of the dimension reduction operation. Specifically, a multilayer feature fusion method is proposed to extract the fusion information of the spectral–spatial features of each layer by considering complementary information of different hierarchical structures. Therefore, high-lever spectral–spatial attributes are gradually exploited along with the increase in layers and the fusion of layers. The experimental verification on three real HSI data sets demonstrates that the proposed framework presents more satisfying classification performance and efficiency with deeper network structure and lower parameter size.

Recent advances in mamba-based architectures have demonstrated promising potential for hyperspectral image classification (HSIC), offering linear-complexity long-range dependency modeling. However, two critical challenges persist in adapting this paradigm to HSI analysis: the substantial requirement for annotated training samples, and insufficient capacity to interpret the intricate spatial-spectral features inherent in HSI data, particularly under few-shot learning scenarios. To address these limitations, we present SSupMamba, a novel self-supervised mamba framework tailored for HSIC. First, we propose a composite scanning mamba block (CSMB) that enables comprehensive global feature extraction through multi-directional selective scanning of HSI data cubes. Second, we develop a spatial-spectral masked mamba (SAEM) framework that employs randomized masking and reconstruction tasks to enhance local representation learning. Third, we establish a unified self-supervised architecture incorporating contrastive learning to maximize mutual information between multi-views while preserving intrinsic spatial-spectral characteristics. Experimental results on four public datasets demonstrate that the proposed method exhibits excellent feature extraction capabilities under few-shot conditions and outperforms several state-of-the-art HSIC methods. The code is available at: https://github.com/Winkness/SSupMamba.