Semi-Supervised Classification for Hyperspectral Images Based on Multiple Classifiers and Relaxation Strategy

Hyperspectral image (HSI) classification is a fundamental and challenging problem in remote sensing and its various applications. However, it is difficult to perfectly classify remotely sensed hyperspectral data by directly using classification techniques developed in pattern recognition. This is pa...

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Main Authors: Fuding Xie, Dongcui Hu, Fangfei Li, Jun Yang, Deshan Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-07-01
Series:ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/7/7/284
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Summary:Hyperspectral image (HSI) classification is a fundamental and challenging problem in remote sensing and its various applications. However, it is difficult to perfectly classify remotely sensed hyperspectral data by directly using classification techniques developed in pattern recognition. This is partially owing to a multitude of noise points and the limited training samples. Based on multinomial logistic regression (MLR), the local mean-based pseudo nearest neighbor (LMPNN) rule, and the discontinuity preserving relaxation (DPR) method, in this paper, a semi-supervised method for HSI classification is proposed. In pre-processing and post-processing, the DPR strategy is adopted to denoise the original hyperspectral data and improve the classification accuracy, respectively. The application of two classifiers, MLR and LMPNN, can automatically acquire more labeled samples in terms of a few labeled instances per class. This is termed the pre-classification procedure. The final classification result of the HSI is obtained by employing the MLRsub approach. The effectiveness of the proposal is experimentally evaluated by two real hyperspectral datasets, which are widely used to test the performance of the HSI classification algorithm. The comparison results using several competing methods confirm that the proposed method is effective, even for limited training samples.
ISSN:2220-9964