Classification Based on Capsule Network with Hyperspectral Image

Hyperspectral image is usually composed of hundreds of bands rich of spatial and spectral information. And this is an advantage for the common remotely sensed data. Thus, the classification of hyperspectral image could be of great value. However, the dimensionality of hyperspectral image may lead to the curse of dimensionality phenomenon when it is directly used for land use classification or other applications, making it difficult to be utilized effectively. In this paper, we presented a novel classification framework with capsule network based on the spectral and spatial information of hyperspectral images. At first, we use principal components analysis (PCA) to reduce the dimensionalities of hyperspectral image. Then, we use the capsule network to classify hyperspectral image. Our experimental result showed the novel classification framework is more efficient than other six popular methods. Therefore, the capsule network method is robust for hyperspectral image classification.