Boosting CNN for Hyperspectral Image Classification

In recent years, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used for hyperspectral image (HSI) classification. Besides, ensemble learning is a useful way to enhance the classification performance. Therefore, in this study, a new method titled Boosting-CNN is proposed for HSI classification, which fully explored the advantages of deep CNN and ensemble learning. Specifically, several deep CNNs are well-designed to classify HSI. The samples are misclassified in a CNN have more weighs in the following CNN through adaptive boosting. The final classification result is obtained by weighted voting of several CNNs. For HSI classification issue, the number of samples in different classes varies greatly, however, traditional classification methods cannot handle this issue well. In order to address imbalance training samples in HSI classification, soft class balanced loss is proposed to mitigate the influence of imbalance training samples. Experimental results on two popular hyperspectral datasets (i.e., Salinas and Pavia University) show that the proposed method obtain better classification accuracy compared to comparison methods.