Deep learning is an effective tool for handling high-dimensional data and modeling nonlinearity, which can tackle the hyperspectral data well. Usually deep learning methods need a large number of training samples. However, there is no labeled data for training in change detection (CD). Considering these, this paper develops an unsupervised Robust PCA network (RPCANet) for hyperspectral image CD task. The main contributions of this work are twofold: 1) An unsupervised convolutional neural networks named RPCANet is proposed to handle the hyperspectral image CD; 2) An effective CD framework using the RPCANet and change vector analysis (CVA) is designed to achieve better CD performance with more powerful features. Experimental results on real hyperspectral data sets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. © 2018 IEEE