# Going Deeper with Contextual CNN for Hyperspectral Image Classification Source: [Going Deeper with Contextual CNN for Hyperspectral Image Classification]() Collection index: [llms.txt]() Data updated: 2025-10-25T20:47:17.894Z Authors: Hyungtae Lee, Heesung Kwon Published: 2016-04-12T18:44:34.000Z ## Abstract In this paper, we describe a novel deep convolutional neural network (CNN) that is deeper and wider than other existing deep networks for hyperspectral image classification. Unlike current state-of-the-art approaches in CNN-based hyperspectral image classification, the proposed network, called contextual deep CNN, can optimally explore local contextual interactions by jointly exploiting local spatio-spectral relationships of neighboring individual pixel vectors. The joint exploitation of the spatio-spectral information is achieved by a multi-scale convolutional filter bank used as an initial component of the proposed CNN pipeline. The initial spatial and spectral feature maps obtained from the multi-scale filter bank are then combined together to form a joint spatio-spectral feature map. The joint feature map representing rich spectral and spatial properties of the hyperspectral image is then fed through a fully convolutional network that eventually predicts the corresponding label of each pixel vector. The proposed approach is tested on three benchmark datasets: the Indian Pines dataset, the Salinas dataset and the University of Pavia dataset. Performance comparison shows enhanced classification performance of the proposed approach over the current state-of-the-art on the three datasets. ## Recorded benchmark results A research result applies to its stated dataset, split, metric and evaluation configuration. Compare like-for-like settings, preserve the metric's unit and direction, and distinguish paper-reported results from independent reproduction. The best result recorded here is not a claim of exhaustive, current global coverage. ## Original sources and implementation [Original paper]() [PDF]()