A semi-supervised spatially aware wrapper method for hyperspectral band selection

Band selection is widely used to identify relevant bands for land-cover classification of hyperspectral images. The combination of spectral and spatial information can improve the classification performance of hyperspectral images dramatically. Similarly, the fusion of spectral–spatial information should also improve the performance of band selection. In this article, two semi-supervised wrapper-based spectral–spatial band selection algorithms are proposed. The local spatial smoothness of hyperspectral imagery is used to improve the performance of band selection when limited labelled samples available. With superpixel segmentation, the first algorithm uses the statistical characteristics of classification map to predict the classification quality of all samples. Based on the Markov random field model, the second algorithm incorporates the spatial information by the minimization of spectral–spatial energy function. Four widely used real hyperspectral data sets are used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods, when compared to cross-validation-based wrapper method, the accuracy is improved by 2% for different data sets.     

A non-negative low-rank representation for hyperspectral band selection

Hyperspectral images are widely used in real applications due to their rich spectral information. However, the large volume brings a lot of inconvenience, such as storage and transmission. Hyperspectral band selection is an important technique to cope with this issue by selecting a few spectral bands to replace the original image. This article proposes a novel band selection algorithm that first estimates the redundancy through analysing relationships among spectral bands. After that, spectral bands are ranked according to their relative importance. Subsequently, in order to remove redundant spectral bands and preserve the original information, a maximal linearly independent subset is constructed as the optimal band combination. Contributions of this article are listed as follows: (1) A new strategy for band selection is proposed to preserve the original information mostly; (2) A non-negative low-rank representation algorithm is developed to discover intrinsic relationships among spectral bands; (3) A smart strategy is put forward to adaptively determine the optimal combination of spectral bands. To verify the effectiveness, experiments have been conducted on both hyperspectral unmixing and classification. For unmixing, the proposed algorithm decreases the average root mean square errors (RMSEs) by 0.05, 0.03, and 0.05 for the Urban, Cuprite, and Indian Pines data sets, respectively. With regard to classification, our algorithm achieves the overall accuracies of 77.07% and 89.19% for the Indian Pines and Pavia University data sets, respectively. These results are close to the performance with original images. Thus, comparative experiments not only illustrate the superiority of the proposed algorithm, but also prove the validity of band selection on hyperspectral image processing.     

Phase correlation based redundancy removal in feature weighting band selection for hyperspectral images

Feature weighting based band selection provides a computationally undemanding approach to reduce the number of hyperspectral bands in order to decrease the computational requirements for processing large hyperspectral data sets. In a recent feature weighting based band selection method, a pair‐wise separability criterion and matrix coefficients analysis are used to assign weights to original bands, after which bands identified to be redundant using cross correlation are removed, as it is noted that feature weighting itself does not consider spectral correlation. In the present work, it is proposed to use phase correlation instead of conventional cross correlation to remove redundant bands in the last step of feature weighting based hyperspectral band selection. Support Vector Machine (SVM) based classification of hyperspectral data with a reduced number of bands is used to evaluate the classification accuracy obtained with the proposed approach, and it is shown that feature weighting band selection with the proposed phase correlation based redundant band removal method provides increased classification accuracy compared to feature weighting band selection with conventional cross correlation based redundant band removal.     

Band Selection of Hyperspectral Images for Automatic Detection of Poultry Skin Tumors

This paper presents a spectral band selection method for feature dimensionality reduction in hyperspectral image analysis for detecting skin tumors on poultry carcasses. A hyperspectral image contains spatial information measured as a sequence of individual wavelength across broad spectral bands. Despite the useful information for skin tumor detection, real-time processing of hyperspectral images is often a challenging task due to the large amount of data. Band selection finds a subset of significant spectral bands in terms of information content for dimensionality reduction. This paper presents a band selection method of hyperspectral images based on the recursive divergence for the automatic detection of poultry carcasses. For this, we derive a set of recursive equations for the fast calculation of divergence with an additional band to overcome the computational restrictions in real-time processing. A support vector machine is used as a classifier for tumor detection. From our experiments, the proposed band selection method shows high detection accuracy with low false positive rates compared to the canonical analysis at a small number of spectral bands. Also, compared with the enumeration approach of 93.75% detection rate, our proposed recursive divergence approach gives 90.6% detection rate, which is within the industry-accepted accuracy of 90-95%, while achieving the computational saving for real-time processing.     

Unsupervised hyperspectral feature selection based on fuzzy c-means and grey wolf optimizer

Hyperspectral image (HSI) with hundreds of narrow and consecutive spectral bands provides substantial information to discriminate various land-covers. However, the existence of redundant features/bands not only gives rise to increasing of computation time but also interferes the classification result of hyperspectral images. Obviously, it is a very challenging problem how to select an effective feature subset from original bands to reduce the dimensionality of the hyperspectral dataset. In this study, a novel unsupervised feature selection method is suggested to remove the redundant features of HSI by feature subspace decomposition and optimization of feature combination. Feature subset decomposition is achieved by the fuzzy c-means (FCM) algorithm. The optimal feature selection is based on the optimization process of grey wolf optimizer (GWO) algorithm and maximum entropy (ME) principle. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method, experiments are conducted on three well-known hyperspectral datasets, Indian Pines, Pavia University, and Salinas. Six state-of-the-art feature selection methods are used to compare with the proposed method. Experimental results successfully confirm the superior performance of our proposal with respect to three classification accuracy indices overall accuracy (OA), average accuracy (AA) and kappa coefficient (κ).     

Selection of informative hyperspectral band subsets based on entropy and correlation

ABSTRACT

The article proposes two novel and relatively simple unsupervised procedures for the selection of informative small subsets of spectral bands in hyperspectral images. To ensure the informativeness of the subsets, bands featuring higher entropy are included. The correlation of band images is restricted to avoid redundancy of the subsets. The entropy multiple correlation ratio procedure employs the entropy-correlation ratio for the selection of spectral bands. The entropy-based correlated band grouping (ECBG) procedure divides the spectrum into groups of bands featuring highly correlated images. The subsets obtained were characterized by the performance of classifiers using only data from included bands. The ECBG procedure provided better results than the alternatives if the number of selected bands was low. Another advantage of this procedure is the possibility of averaging the images obtained for spectral bands within the groups found. It is shown that classification results are significantly improved if such an averaging is used. In the data acquisition practice, it can be used for a purposeful merging of spectral bands in the configuration of hyperspectral imagers, which allows one to reduce the amount of data to be saved in real time and thus helps one to improve the achievable spatial resolution.     

Band elimination of hyperspectral imagery using partitioned band image correlation and capacitory discrimination

Due to the very large number of bands in hyperspectral imagery, two major problems which arise during classification are the ‘curse of dimensionality’ and computational complexity. To overcome these, dimensionality reduction is an important task for hyperspectral image analysis. An unsupervised band elimination method is proposed which iteratively eliminates one band from the pair of most correlated neighbouring bands depending on the discriminating capability of the bands. Correlation between neighbouring bands is calculated over partitioned band images. Capacitory discrimination is used to measure the discrimination capability of a band image. Finally, four evaluation measures, namely classification accuracy, kappa coefficient, class separability, and entropy are calculated over the selected bands to measure the efficiency of the proposed method. The proposed unsupervised band elimination technique is compared to three popular state-of-the-art approaches, both qualitatively and quantitatively, and shows promising results compared to them.     

基于类别可分性的高光谱图像波段选择

高光谱遥感数据具有丰富的光谱信息,应用十分广泛,但其冗余的光谱信息有时会限制高光谱图像的分类等的精度以及计算复杂度.为了提高解译效率,高光谱图像降维不可或缺,这也是高光谱图像处理的研究热点之一.提出了一种基于类别可分性的高光谱图像波段选择方法(Endmember Separability Based band Selection,ESBB),该方法通过Mahalanobis距离最大化图像中各类地物的可分性来确定最优的波段组合.相较于其他监督波段选择算法,该方法不需要大量训练样本,不用对每个组合做分类处理.对波段选择后的结果进行分类的实验结果证明,该方法是一个快速有效的波段选择方法,可以得到一个较好的分类精度.     

Fast hyperspectral band selection based on spatial feature extraction

Hyperspectral images usually consist of hundreds of spectral bands, which can be used to precisely characterize different land cover types. However, the high dimensionality also has some disadvantages, such as the Hughes effect and a high storage demand. Band selection is an effective method to address these issues. However, most band selection algorithms are conducted with the high-dimensional band images, which will bring high computation complexity and may deteriorate the selection performance. In this paper, spatial feature extraction is used to reduce the dimensionality of band images and improve the band selection performance. The experiment results obtained on three real hyperspectral datasets confirmed that the spatial feature extraction-based approach exhibits more robust classification accuracy when compared with other methods. Besides, the proposed method can dramatically reduce the dimensionality of each band image, which makes it possible for band selection to be implemented in real time situations.     

基于核模糊粗糙集的高光谱波段选择算法

为了减少高光谱波段图像间的冗余,降低运算时间,为后续分类任务提供有效支持,提出了基于核模糊粗糙集的高光谱波段选择算法。高光谱图像相邻波段间相似性较强,为进一步有效地度量波段的重要性,引入核模糊粗糙集理论。考虑波段中类的分布特性,根据波段的下近似集分布定义波段间的相关性,进而结合波段的信息熵定义波段的重要度。采用最大相关性最大重要度的搜索策略对高光谱图像进行波段选择。最后在常用高光谱数据集Indiana Pines农业区上,采用J48及KNN分类器进行测试。与其他高光谱波段选择算法相比,该算法在两个分类器上的总体平均分类精度分别提升了4.5和6.6个百分点。实验结果表明所提算法在处理高光谱波段选择问题时具有一定优势。     

标准分数降维的3D-CNN高光谱遥感图像分类

针对高光谱图像存在Hughes现象,以及空间和光谱特征利用效率低的问题,提出了一种结合标准分数降维和深度学习的高光谱图像分类算法.利用标准分数对高光谱数据的波段质量进行评价以剔除高光谱遥感图像中的冗余波段,结合优化过的3D-CNN(3D Convolutional Neural Network)分类方法,通过使用大步距...     

基于萤火虫算法的高光谱遥感波段选择方法

高光谱图像在遥感领域中的应用越来越广泛,但由于自身的高数据维、波段间的高冗余度等特性给图像处理带来了一定困难,针对这个问题,提出一种基于类间可分性准则的改进萤火虫仿生算法,进行高光谱遥感波段选择。在分析萤火虫算法机理的基础上,阐述了利用该算法进行高光谱波段选择的思路,并构造波段相似性矩阵,选择欧氏距离、JM距离、光谱信息散度和离散度作为可分性准则来设置目标函数,根据目标函数值的优劣选择优势波段。最后,使用HYDICE Washington DC Mall和 HyMap Purdue Campus两个高光谱遥感影像数据进行实验验证,并利用支持向量机分类器对最佳波段组合进行精度评价,证明该算法的可行性和有效性。
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A maximum noise fraction transform with improved noise estimation for hyperspectral images

Feature extraction is often performed to reduce spectral dimension of hyperspectral images before image classification. The maximum noise fraction(MNF) transform is one of the most commonly used spectral feature extraction methods. The spectral features in several bands of hyperspectral images are submerged by the noise. The MNF transform is advantageous over the principle component(PC) transform because it takes the noise information in the spatial domain into consideration. However,the experiments describ...     

结合遗传算法和蚁群算法的高光谱图像波段选择

随着遥感技术和成像光谱仪的发展,高光谱遥感图像的应用越来越广泛,但其自身的特点给高光谱图像的分类、识别等带来了很大的困难.如何快速地从高达数百个波段的高光谱图像中选择出具有较好分类识别能力的波段组合是亟待解决的问题.针对上述问题分析了已有的波段选择方法,提出一种结合遗传算法和蚁群算法的高光谱图像波段选择方法.该算法首先利用遗传算法以较快的寻优能力获得几组较优解,以此来初始化蚁群算法的初始信息素列表,然后用蚁群算法以较高的求精解能力获得最优解,并且在遗传算法部分中采用四进制的编码方式,使得算法编/译码简单、遗传算子操作简捷、且处理时所占空间小,同时在蚁群算法部分中巧妙地对预处理图像进行子空间划分来缩小蚂蚁搜索的范围,提高了算法的搜索效率,减小了输出波段组合的相关性和冗余度.由于该算法充分地吸取遗传算法和蚁群算法的优点、克服各自的缺陷,是一种计算耗时少、收敛性能好的波段选择方法.利用AVIRIS(airborne visible infrared imaging spectrometer)图像对提出的算法进行实验,实验结果表明,本文算法在所选波段性能和计算耗时方面都获得令人满意的效果.     

Gray Wolf Optimizer for hyperspectral band selection

In this paper, we propose a new optimization-based framework to reduce the dimensionality of hyperspectral images. One of the most problems in hyperspectral image classification is the Hughes phenomenon caused by the irrelevant spectral bands and the high correlation between the adjacent bands. The problematic is how to find the relevant bands to classify the pixels of hyperspectral image without reducing the classification accuracy rate. We propose to reformulate the problem of band selection as a combinatorial problem by modeling an objective function based on class separability measures and the accuracy rate. We use the Gray Wolf Optimizer, which is a new meta-heuristic algorithm more efficient than Practical Swarm Optimization, Gravitational Search Algorithm, Differential Evolution, Evolutionary Programming and Evolution Strategy. The experimentations are performed on three widely used benchmark hyperspectral datasets. Comparisons with the state-of-the-art approaches are also conducted. The analysis of the results proves that the proposed approach can effectively investigate the spectral band selection problem and provides a high classification accuracy rate by using a few samples for training.     

基于3维上下文预测的高光谱图像无损压缩

如今高光谱数据的有效压缩已成为遥感技术发展中需要迫切解决的问题,为了对高光谱数据进行有效压缩,提出了一种基于3维上下文预测的高光谱图像无损压缩算法。该算法首先根据相邻波段间的相关性大小进行波段分组,同时对各个分组重新进行波段排序;然后采用自适应波段选择算法对高光谱图像进行降维,再利用k-means算法对降维后的波段谱向矢量进行聚类;最后在参考波段和当前波段中通过定义3维上下文预测结构,在聚类结果的基础上,对各个分类分别训练其最优的预测系数。实验结果表明,该方法可显著降低压缩后图像编码的平均比特率。     

基于K-AP算法的高光谱图像波段选择方法

在高光谱图像分析领域中，波段选择是一种能有效减少高光谱图像维度的方法。K类仿射传播算法是一种高效的聚类算法，已成功地应用于人脸识别和数据分析等领域，但在高光谱图像分析领域还少有成功的应用。提出将K-AP算法应用于高光谱图像波段选择，对高光谱图像进行有效的数据压缩。针对K-AP算法的特点，基于Kullback-Leibler散度定义了新的相似度矩阵，对波段进行度量，再使用K-AP算法进行聚类，选择最有代表性的波段。实验结果表明，与常用的波段选择方法相比，所提出的方法有更好的表现。     

高光谱数据的光谱信息特点及面向对象的特征参数选择——以北京顺义区为例

波段宽度为纳米级的高光谱数据,具有几十乃至几百个光谱通道,它们各有不同的特点。如何根据具体的应用目的,在这众多的波段中选择出最佳波段和特征参数,对于有效地进行高光谱数据的处理、分析及信息提取至关重要。以北京顺义区高光谱数据为例,首先分析了通道间的相关性,根据通道的相关性大小和分组块状结构特点,将其分为若干组;然后全面分析了高光谱数据的光谱信息特征,在综合考虑各波段的信息含量、波段间的相关性以及地物光谱的吸收特性和可分性等因素
的基础上,提出了面向对象的分层多次选择高光谱数据最佳波段和提取特征参数的基本思路和方法;最后用其它地区的成像光谱数据对此方法进行了验证。     

Unsupervised band extraction for hyperspectral images using clustering and kernel principal component analysis

The ‘curse of dimensionality’ is a drawback for classification of hyperspectral images. Band extraction is a technique for reducing the dimensionality and makes it computationally less complex for classification. In this article, an unsupervised band extraction method for hyperspectral images has been proposed. In the proposed method, kernel principal component analysis (KPCA) is used for transformation of the original data, which integrates the nonlinear characteristics, as well as, the advantages of principal component analysis and extract higher order statistics of data. The KPCA is highly dependent on the number of patterns for calculating kernel matrix. So, a proper selection of subset of patterns, which represent the original data properly, may reduce the computational cost for the proposed method with considerably better performance. Here, density-based spatial clustering technique is first used to group the pixels according to their similarity, and then some percentages of pixels from each cluster are selected to form the proper subset of patterns. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed clustering- and KPCA-based unsupervised band extraction method, investigation is carried out on three hyperspectral data sets, namely, Indian, KSC, and Botswana. Four evaluation measures, namely classification accuracy, kappa coefficient, class separability, and entropy are calculated over the extracted bands to measure the efficiency of the proposed method. The performance of the proposed method is compared with four state-of-the-art unsupervised band extraction approaches, both qualitatively and quantitatively, and shows promising results compared to them in terms of four evaluation measures.     

分段2维主成分分析的超光谱图像波段选择

目的 超光谱图像具有极高的谱间分辨率,巨大的数据量给分类识别等后续处理带来很大压力。为了有效降低图像数据维数,提出基于分段2DPCA的超光谱图像波段选择算法。方法 首先根据谱间相关性对原始图像进行波段分组,然后根据主成分反映每个光谱波段的信息比重分别对每组图像进行波段选择,从而实现超光谱图像的谱间降维。结果 该算法有效降低了超光谱图像的光谱维数,选择的波段明显反映出不同地物像元矢量的区别。结论 实验结果表明,该波段选择算法相对传统算法速度更快,并且较好地保留了原始图像的局部重要信息,对后续处理有积极意义。