Band selection and evaluation with spatial information

Spatial information has been widely used for hyperspectral image classification, which can dramatically improve the classification accuracy. Though band selection is an important pre-processing step for hyperspectral image processing, spatial information has not been well exploited in this field. In this article, we will exploit the spatial information for band selection. This article mainly includes two parts: algorithm design, and algorithm evaluation. In the first part, we propose an efficient band selection method by using the spatial structure information and spectral information. In the second part, we advocate the use of the local spatial filtering and the spectral-spatial classifier for evaluating the performance of band selection algorithms instead of the traditional pixel-wise classifiers. Comprehensive experiments over diverse publicly available benchmark data sets reveal some interesting results.     

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.     

Hyperspectral Multiple Features Optimization Using Improved Firefly Algorithm

The utilization of hyperspectral remote sensing image is mainly based on the spectral information,and the spatial information is always be ignored.To solve this problem,a novel hyperspectral multiple features optimization approach based on improved firefly algorithm is presented.Firstly,four spatial features,the local statistical features,gray level co-occurrence matrix features,Gabor filtering features and morphological features of hyperspectral remote sensing image are extracted,and some spectral bands are selected and then combined with these spatial features,and the feature set is constructed.Then,the firefly algorithm is used to optimize the extracted features.In view of the slow convergence speed of firefly algorithm,we use the random inertia weight from particle swarm optimization algorithm to modifiy the location update formula of firefly algorithm,and JM(Jeffreys-Matusita)distance and Fisher Ratio are used as the objective function.Two urban hyperspectral datasets are used for performance evaluation,and the classification results derived from spectral information and spectral-spatial information are compared.The experiments show that random inertia weight can improve the speed of FA-based feature selection algorithm,the performance with multiple features is better than that of spectral information for urban land cover classification,The statistical results of the two sets of experimental data indicate that the selected number of morphological features are the most in the four spatial features.The local statistical features and morphological features are more helpful to the classification of hyperspectral remote sensing images than GLCM and Gabor features.     

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.     

面向分类应用的高光谱谱段选择方法

高光谱数据在物质分类识别领域得到了广泛应用,但存在数据量大、波段间相关性高等问题,严重影响分类精度及应用。针对以上问题分析了已有的波段选择方法,提出了基于波段聚类及监督分类的遗传算法,对高光谱数据进行波段选择：采用[K]均值聚类算法对波段数据进行聚类分析,构造波段子集合;利用分类器族分类精度构造适应度函数,采用遗传算法对波段子集合进行优化选择。最后用阔叶林高光谱数据对提出的算法进行对比实验,实验结果表明针对分类应用,提出的算法能够非常有效地选择高光谱谱段。     

高光谱遥感图像波段选择研究进展综述

高光谱成像遥感技术可获取地物的光谱、辐射和空间信息,在国民经济的各个领域得到广泛的应用.但其狭窄的波段间距带来丰富光谱信息的同时,也带来了信息冗余,增加了数据处理的难度.因此,高光谱遥感数据在进行实际应用前,需要进行波段选择并提取光谱特征,降低数据维数.对高光谱遥感图像的波段选择研究进展进行了综述,在分析、归纳波段选择...     

Semi-supervised hyperspectral image classification algorithm based on graph embedding and discriminative spatial information

Image classification is one of the important techniques in computer vision. Due to the limited access of labeled samples in hyperspectral images, semi-supervised learning (SSL) methods have been widely applied in hyperspectral image classification. Graph based semi-supervised learning provides an effective solution to model data in classification problems, of which graph construction is the critical step. In this paper we employ the graphs constructed with a typical manifold learning method-locally linear embedding (LLE), based on which semi-supervised classification is then conducted. To exploit the valuable spatial information contained in hyperspectral images, discriminative spatial information (DSI) is then extracted. The proposed classification method is evaluated using three real hyperspectral data sets, revealing state-of-art performance when compared with different classification methods.     

Spatial–spectral ant colony optimization for hyperspectral image classification

Hyperspectral satellite images contain a lot of information in terms of spectral behaviour of objects and this information can be extracted by several mechanisms including image classification. Traditional spectral information-based methods of hyperspectral image classification are generally followed by spatial information-driven post-processing techniques such as relaxation labelling and Markov Random Field. Spectral or spatial information alone may lead to different results depending upon scene captured. An algorithm which can incorporate influence of both spectral and spatial features is needed to address this problem. In this article, an ant colony optimisation-based hyperspectral image classification technique is proposed. This method exploits both spatial and spectral features. Five standard hyperspectral data sets have been used to validate the proposed method and comparisons with other approaches have been carried out. It was observed that the proposed method yielded a significant improvement in classification accuracy. For the instance, nearly 10% increase in accuracy was observed when compared to Support Vector Machine for Indian pines, Botswana, and Salinas images.     

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.     

提高小样本高光谱图像分类性能的变维卷积神经网络

目的 为了解决基于卷积神经网络的算法对高光谱图像小样本分类精度较低、模型结构复杂和计算量大的问题,提出了一种变维卷积神经网络。方法 变维卷积神经网络对高光谱分类过程可根据内部特征图维度的变化分为空—谱信息融合、降维、混合特征提取与空—谱联合分类的过程。这种变维结构通过改变特征映射的维度,简化了网络结构并减少了计算量,并通过对空—谱信息的充分提取提高了卷积神经网络对小样本高光谱图像分类的精度。结果 实验分为变维卷积神经网络的性能分析实验与分类性能对比实验,所用的数据集为Indian Pines和Pavia University Scene数据集。通过实验可知,变维卷积神经网络对高光谱小样本可取得较高的分类精度,在Indian Pines和Pavia University Scene数据集上的总体分类精度分别为87.87%和98.18%,与其他分类算法对比有较明显的性能优势。结论 实验结果表明,合理的参数优化可有效提高变维卷积神经网络的分类精度,这种变维模型可较大程度提高对高光谱图像中小样本数据的分类性能,并可进一步推广到其他与高光谱图像相关的深度学习分类模型中。     

一种结合波段分组特征和形态学特征的高光谱图像分类方法

如何准确识别图像中的类别信息,是计算机视觉和模式识别领域的重要研究问题。遥感卫星图像数据,尤其是高光谱等遥感图像数据的出现,将空间信息与光谱信息集成于同一数据集中,丰富了图像信息来源。如何准确地识别高光谱图像中的地物类别,已经成为了图像处理和模式识别领域的热点问题。面向高光谱图像数据提出了一种基于波段分组特征和形态学特征的高光谱图像分类方法,结合空间和光谱特征提高分类精度。通过真实的高光谱数据实验证明:利用波段分组可以有效地保持光谱特征,降低数据冗余;在波段分组基础上结合形态学特征进行分类,比传统分类方法的分类精度明显提高。     

Feature extraction of hyperspectral images with a matting model

Owing to the limitations of the imaging sensor and theoretical aspect, hyperspectral images (HSIs) are contaminated with some unwanted components such as noise and a lack of spatial information. This article proposes a spatial–spectral feature enhancement model to eliminate interference, modify spectral distortion, and increase the useful features. The framework firstly proposes an effective spatial feature-based strategy for selecting a band with the most edge information to serve as alpha channel. Given the alpha channel, the continuous foreground and background are estimated by the closed form solution. Finally, feature-enhanced HSI is obtained by linearly combining the selected band, hyper foreground and background. Experimental results of the ground-based data and remotely sensed data indicate that the proposed feature enhancement algorithm provides effective performance in enhancing spatial–spectral features and reducing noise. Especially, the feature-enhanced data have positive influence on both unmixing and classification.     

Hyperspectral band selection with objective image quality assessment

Hyperspectral sensors often collect hundreds of bands at a time, so hyperspectral images can accurately characterize different land-cover types with abundant spectral information. However, these spectral bands also contain redundant information that needs to be removed. Band selection is one of the most widely used methods to remove noised or redundant bands. Because labelled samples are difficult to collect, most band selection methods adopt unsupervised ways to select diverse and representative bands. Still, noised bands are often selected because they usually have low correlation with other bands. In this article, objective image quality assessment is introduced to indicate the quality of every band, and combined with the redundancy measure, a new unsupervised band selection method is proposed. Three real hyperspectral images are used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.     

Hyperspectral image classification based on bilateral filter with linear spatial correlation information

Support Vector Machine (SVM) with the margin theory is widely used for the hyperspectral classification. However, the margin model is a single interval and does not represent the complete distribution of hyperspectral image data sets. In addition, the spatial texture information obtained by filtering in recent years has become a hot research topic for improving classification of hyperspectral images, but the spatial correlation information is often lost in the spatial texture information extraction. To solve this problem, this paper proposed an algorithm with large margin distribution machine (LDM) that combined the spatial information obtained by the bilateral filter and linear spatial correlation information (BFLSCI-LDM). First, spatial features were extracted by bilateral filter from hyperspectral image whose dimensionality was reduced by principal component analysis. Next, the linear spatial correlation information was constructed for hyperspectral images. Finally, the spatial information and original spectral information were combined for LDM. The experimental results of actual hyperspectral images indicated that the proposed BFLSCI-LDM method was superior to other classification methods, including the original SVM with the raw spectral features, the dimensionality reduction features, and spatial-spectral information, the method of edge-preserving filter and recursive filter, and the LDM-based method.     

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.     

A probabilistic SVM approach for hyperspectral image classification using spectral and texture features

New hyperspectral sensors can collect a large number of spectral bands, which provide a capability to distinguish various objects and materials on the earth. However, the accurate classification of these images is still a big challenge. Previous studies demonstrate the effectiveness of combination of spectral data and spatial information for better classification of hyperspectral images. In this article, this approach is followed to propose a novel three-step spectral–spatial method for classification of hyperspectral images. In the first step, Gabor filters are applied for texture feature extraction. In the second step, spectral and texture features are separately classified by a probabilistic Support Vector Machine (SVM) pixel-wise classifier to estimate per-pixel probability. Therefore, two probabilities are obtained for each pixel of the image. In the third step, the total probability is calculated by a linear combination of the previous probabilities on which a control parameter determines the efficacy of each one. As a result, one pixel is assigned to one class which has the highest total probability. This method is performed in multivariate analysis framework (MAF) on which one pixel is represented by a d-dimensional vector, d is the number of spectral or texture features, and in functional data analysis (FDA) on which one pixel is considered as a continuous function. The proposed method is evaluated with different training samples on two hyperspectral data. The combination parameter is experimentally obtained for each hyperspectral data set as well as for each training samples. This parameter adjusts the efficacy of the spectral versus texture information in various areas such as forest, agricultural or urban area to get the best classification accuracy. Experimental results show high performance of the proposed method for hyperspectral image classification. In addition, these results confirm that the proposed method achieves better results in FDA than in MAF. Comparison with some state-of-the-art spectral–spatial classification methods demonstrates that the proposed method can significantly improve classification accuracies.     

Improving hyperspectral image classification by combining spectral,texture, and shape features

Several studies have already demonstrated the efficiency of utilizing spatial information in representation and interpretation of hyperspectral (HS) images. Texture and shape features are known as two important categories of spatial information in various applications of image processing. This study tries to utilize texture and shape features extracted from HS images, as well as spectral information, in order to reduce overall classification errors. These features include morphological profiles (MPs), global Gabor features, and features extracted from conventional and segmentation-based grey-level co-occurrence matrices (GLCMs). Various combinations of these spatial features along with spectral information are fed into a support vector machine (SVM) classifier, and the best combinations for different situations are determined. Experiments on the widely used Indian Pines, Pavia University, and Salinas HS data sets demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed framework in comparison with some recent spectral–spatial classification methods.     

PCA与移动窗小波变换的高光谱决策融合分类

目的 高光谱数据具有较高的谱间分辨率和相关性,给分类处理带来了一定的困难.为了提高分类精度,提出一种结合PCA与移动窗小波变换的高光谱决策融合分类算法.方法 首先,利用相关系数矩阵对原始高光谱数据进行波段分组;然后,利用主成分分析对每组数据进行谱间降维;再根据提出的移动窗小波变换法进行空间特征提取;最后,采用线性意见池(LOP)决策融合规则对多分类器的分类结果进行融合.结果 采用两组来自不同传感器的数据进行实验,所提算法的分类精度和Kappa系数均高于已有的5种分类算法.与SVM-RBF算法相比,本文算法的分类精度高出了8％左右.结论 实验结果表明,本文算法充分挖掘了高光谱图像的谱间-空间信息,能有效提高分类正确率,在小样本情况下和噪声环境中也具有良好的分类性能.     

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.     

基于熵加权K-means全局信息聚类的高光谱图像分类

目的 高光谱图像波段数目巨大，导致在解译及分类过程中出现“维数灾难”的现象。针对该问题，在K-means聚类算法基础上，考虑各个波段对不同聚类的重要程度，同时顾及类间信息，提出一种基于熵加权K-means全局信息聚类的高光谱图像分类算法。方法 首先，引入波段权重，用来刻画各个波段对不同聚类的重要程度，并定义熵信息测度表达该权重。其次，为避免局部最优聚类，引入类间距离测度实现全局最优聚类。最后，将上述两类测度引入K-means聚类目标函数，通过最小化目标函数得到最优分类结果。结果 为了验证提出的高光谱图像分类方法的有效性，对Salinas高光谱图像和Pavia University高光谱图像标准图中的地物类别根据其光谱反射率差异程度进行合并，将合并后的标准图作为新的标准分类图。分别采用本文算法和传统K-means算法对Salinas高光谱图像和Pavia University高光谱图像进行实验，并定性、定量地评价和分析了实验结果。对于图像中合并后的地物类别，光谱反射率差异程度大，从视觉上看，本文算法较传统K-means算法有更好的分类结果；从分类精度看，本文算法的总精度分别为92.20%和82.96%， K-means算法的总精度分别为83.39%和67.06%，较K-means算法增长8.81%和15.9%。结论 提出一种基于熵加权K-means全局信息聚类的高光谱图像分类算法，实验结果表明，本文算法对高光谱图像中具有不同光谱反射率差异程度的各类地物目标均能取得很好的分类结果。