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Mixed-Precision Quantization for CNN-Based Remote Sensing Scene Classification

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Xin Wei
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He Chen
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刘文超 (Wenchao Liu)
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Yizhuang Xie *
DOI:10.1109/LGRS.2020.3007575delete
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Extensive convolutional neural network (CNN)-based methods have been widely used in remote sensing scene classification. However, the dense operation and huge memory storage of the state-of-the-art models hinder their deployment on low-power embedded devices. In this letter, we propose a mixed-precision quantization method to compress the model size without accuracy degradation. In this method, we propose a symmetric nonlinear quantization scheme to reduce the quantization error. A corresponding three-step training strategy is proposed to improve the performance of the quantized network. Finally, based on the proposed scheme and training strategy, we propose a neural architecture search (NAS)-based quantization bit-width search (NQBS) method. This method can automatically select a bit width for each quantized layer to obtain a mixed-precision network with an optimal model size. We apply the proposed method to the ResNet-34 and SqueezeNet networks and evaluate the quantized networks on the NWPU-RESISC45 data set. The experimental results show that the mixed-precision quantized networks under the proposed method strike a satisfying tradeoff between classification accuracy and model size.
Keywords:
Quantization (signal)
Training
Remote sensing
Manganese
Dynamic range
Backpropagation
Convolutional neural networks
Mixed-precision quantization
neural architecture search (NAS)-based quantization bit-width search (NQBS)
remote sensing scene classification
three-step training (TST) strategy
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IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine cover
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine
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tsinghua university
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beijing institute of technology
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