Poster
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Workshop: 3rd ICLR Workshop on Machine Learning for Remote Sensing
Efficient Land-Cover Image Classification via Mixed Bit-Precision Quantization
Tushar Shinde · Ahmed Silima Vuai
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Workshop: 3rd ICLR Workshop on Machine Learning for Remote Sensing
Land cover (LC) image classification is essential for monitoring environmental changes, urban planning, and disaster management. Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success in LC classification; however, their deployment on edge devices is constrained by high computational and storage requirements. Quantizing neural networks to reduce model size has proven effective in achieving low bit-width representations of parameters while maintaining the original network's performance. To facilitate deployment on edge devices, we propose a novel adaptive quantization technique that optimally reduces model size while preserving accuracy. This method evaluates layer importance through statistical measures, enabling the adaptive selection of bit-width precision for each layer. Experimental results show that the proposed quantization strategy effectively balances compression and accuracy for different DNN architectures like VGG19, ResNet18, and ResNet50, providing a practical solution for LC classification on EuroSAT dataset in resource-constrained environments.