Contrastive Learning Based on Transformer for Hyperspectral Image Classification

Recently, deep learning has achieved breakthroughs in hyperspectral image (HSI) classification. Deep-learning-based classifiers require a large number of labeled samples for training to provide excellent performance. However, the availability of labeled data is limited due to the significant human resources and time costs of labeling hyperspectral data. Unsupervised learning for hyperspectral image classification has thus received increasing attention. In this paper, we propose a novel unsupervised framework based on a contrastive learning method and a transformer model for hyperspectral image classification. The experimental results prove that our model can efficiently extract hyperspectral image features in unsupervised situations.