Title
Hyperspectral Image Classification with Capsule Network Using Limited Training Samples.
Abstract
Deep learning techniques have boosted the performance of hyperspectral image (HSI) classification. In particular, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown superior performance to that of the conventional machine learning algorithms. Recently, a novel type of neural networks called capsule networks (CapsNets) was presented to improve the most advanced CNNs. In this paper, we present a modified two-layer CapsNet with limited training samples for HSI classification, which is inspired by the comparability and simplicity of the shallower deep learning models. The presented CapsNet is trained using two real HSI datasets, i.e., the PaviaU (PU) and SalinasA datasets, representing complex and simple datasets, respectively, and which are used to investigate the robustness or representation of every model or classifier. In addition, a comparable paradigm of network architecture design has been proposed for the comparison of CNN and CapsNet. Experiments demonstrate that CapsNet shows better accuracy and convergence behavior for the complex data than the state-of-the-art CNN. For CapsNet using the PU dataset, the Kappa coefficient, overall accuracy, and average accuracy are 0.9456, 95.90%, and 96.27%, respectively, compared to the corresponding values yielded by CNN of 0.9345, 95.11%, and 95.63%. Moreover, we observed that CapsNet has much higher confidence for the predicted probabilities. Subsequently, this finding was analyzed and discussed with probability maps and uncertainty analysis. In terms of the existing literature, CapsNet provides promising results and explicit merits in comparison with CNN and two baseline classifiers, i.e., random forests (RFs) and support vector machines (SVMs).
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.3390/s18093153
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
capsule network,hyperspectral,image classification,deep learning,possibility density
Hyperspectral image classification,Pattern recognition,Electronic engineering,Artificial intelligence,Engineering
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
18
9.0
9
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.66
22
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fei Deng1196.59
Shengliang Pu290.66
Xuehong Chen34711.12
Yusheng Shi4195.24
Ting Yuan5434.83
Shengyan Pu690.66