  Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved excellent
performances in many computer vision tasks. Specifically, for hyperspectral
images (HSIs) classification, CNNs often require very complex structure due to
the high dimension of HSIs. The complex structure of CNNs results in
prohibitive training efforts. Moreover, the common situation in HSIs
classification task is the lack of labeled samples, which results in accuracy
deterioration of CNNs. In this work, we develop an easy-to-implement capsule
network to alleviate the aforementioned problems, i.e., 1D-convolution capsule
network (1D-ConvCapsNet). Firstly, 1D-ConvCapsNet separately extracts spatial
and spectral information on spatial and spectral domains, which is more
lightweight than 3D-convolution due to fewer parameters. Secondly,
1D-ConvCapsNet utilizes the capsule-wise constraint window method to reduce
parameter amount and computational complexity of conventional capsule network.
Finally, 1D-ConvCapsNet obtains accurate predictions with respect to input
samples via dynamic routing. The effectiveness of the 1D-ConvCapsNet is
verified by three representative HSI datasets. Experimental results demonstrate
that 1D-ConvCapsNet is superior to state-of-the-art methods in both the
accuracy and training effort.
