Hyperspectral Image Classification with Convolutional Neural Networks

Hyperspectral image (HSI) classification is one of the most widely used methods for scene analysis from hyperspectral imagery. In the past, many different engineered features have been proposed for the HSI classification problem. In this paper, however, we propose a feature learning approach for hyperspectral image classification based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The proposed CNN model is able to learn structured features, roughly resembling different spectral band-pass filters, directly from the hyperspectral input data. Our experimental results, conducted on a commonly used remote sensing hyperspectral dataset, show that the proposed method provides classification results that are among the state-of-the-art, without using any prior knowledge or engineered features.