Remote Sensing Image Target Recognition Based on Pruned Deep Neural Network Models

In this work, pruned deep neural network models have been used for remote sensing image target recognition to reduce the storage resources. This model compression procedure including two parts: first, pre-train the model for remote sensing image target recognition. Second, compression models by network pruning and weight clustering. The pruning procedure was implemented by learning the important connections in the network, and the weight clustering procedure was implemented by k-means algorithm. Experiments were performed with the AlexNet and VGG-16 networks on the NWPU-RESISC-10 datasets. Results show that the proposed method reduced the storage of AlexNet by 11.4×, from 240MB to 20MB and reduced the VGG-16 by 11× from 552MB to 50MB, with no significant loss of accuracy.