Very High Resolution Image Scene Classification with Capsule Network
Souleyman Chaib, Mohammed El Amin Larabi, Yanfeng Gu, Khadidja Bakhti, Moussa Sofiane Karoui · 2019
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) has boosted the performance of Very High Resolution (VHR) remote sensing data classification. Moreover, the continuous development of CNN techniques for image scenes description has entered a new challenge. The deep neural network models require a huge number of training samples, which is the main limitation of processing remote sensing data. To overcome this issue, a new method, based on the Capsule neural network for VHR image scenes recognition is proposed in this work. Experiments on the public Aerial Image Dataset (AID) benchmark, containing different areal categories with sub-meter spatial resolution are conducted. The obtained results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, as compared with the classical CNN model.