A band selection technique for spectral classification

In hyperspectral remote sensing, sensors acquire reflectance values at many different wavelength bands, to cover a complete spectral interval. These measurements are strongly correlated, and no new information might be added when increasing the spectral resolution. Moreover, the higher number of spectral bands increases the complexity of a classification task. Therefore, feature reduction is a crucial step. An alternative would be to choose the required sensor bands settings a priori. In this letter, we introduce a statistical procedure to provide band settings for a specific classification task. The proposed procedure selects wavelength band settings which optimize the separation between the different spectral classes. The method is applicable as a band reduction technique, but it can as well serve the purpose of data interpretation or be an aid in sensor design. Results on a vegetation classification task show an improvement in classification performance over feature selection and other band selection techniques.     

判别流形学习算法的高光谱数据降维与树种识别

高光谱遥感影像的波段光谱特征是各类地物内在物理化学性质的反映,在对不同地物进行分类与识别时具有巨大潜能,但由于其波段多造成的信息冗余,需要对高光谱数据进行有效降维,以提高高光谱影像的分类准确度。本文提出了基于判别局部片排列的流形学习算法（DLA）对Hypersion高光谱数据进行降维,通过对局部样本数据进行流形学习框架内的优化训练,将原始光谱特征空间转换为低维的最优判别流形子空间,然后在该子空间内利用最大似然分类器对Hypersion影像中的每个像素进行分类,并与主成分分析（PCA）、原始光谱特征（spectral）降维方法的分类效果进行比较。结果表明,DLA能够有效提高高光谱数据的分类准确度,对不同树种分类取得了满意效果。     

基于波段子集的独立分量分析的特征提取的高光谱遥感影像分类

针对高光谱影像数据具有波段众多、数据量较大的特点,本文提出了一种基于波段子集的独立分量分析(ICA)特征提取的高光谱遥感影像分类的新方法。以北京昌平小汤山地区的高光谱影像为例,根据高光谱遥感影像的相邻波段的相关性进行子空间划分,在各个波段子集上采用ICA算法进行特征提取,将各个子空间提取的特征合并组成特征向量,采用支持向量机(SVM)分类器进行分类。结果表明:该方法分类精度最佳(分类精度89.04%,Kappa系数0.8605,明显优于其它特征提取方法的SVM分类,有效地提高了高光谱数据的分类精度。     

鲁棒多特征谱聚类的高光谱影像波段选择

传统谱聚类的高光谱影像波段选择模型中,采用的波段相似矩阵受到噪声或异常值的影响且仅能表征波段的单一相似特征,导致波段子集的选取结果受到限制.本文从波段选择的目的 出发,提出鲁棒多特征谱聚类方法,整合多个特征的波段相似矩阵来形成综合相似矩阵以解决上述问题.该方法假设4种相似性度量包括光谱信息散度、光谱角度距离、波段相关性...     

面向高光谱影像分类的显著性特征提取方法

针对高光谱影像分类问题,提出了一种显著性特征提取方法。首先,利用超像素分割算法将高光谱影像3个相邻波段分割为若干个小区域。然后,基于分割得到的小区域计算反映不同区域的显著性特征。最后,沿着光谱方向采用大小为3、步长为1的滑窗法获得所有波段的显著性特征。进一步将提取的显著性特征与光谱特征进行结合,并将结合后的特征输入到支持向量机中进行分类。利用Pavia大学、Indian Pines和Salinas 3组高光谱影像数据进行分类试验。试验结果表明,与传统的空间特征提取方法和基于卷积神经网络的高光谱影像分类方法相比,提取的显著性特征能够获得更高的高光谱影像分类精度,且结合光谱特征能够进一步提高分类精度。     

小样本的高光谱图像降噪与分类

在样本数目稀少情况下实现高光谱图像精细分类是个挑战性的问题。高光谱图像信噪比提高比较困难,噪声大小对分类结果有最直接的影响。利用高光谱图像相邻波段之间的相关性和相邻像素之间的相关性,提出多级降噪滤波的高光谱图像分类方法,通过改进的两阶段稀疏与低秩矩阵分解方法,去除高光谱图像中能量较高的噪声,利用主成分分析方法去除高光谱图像中能量较低的噪声,引导滤波方法去除分类结果图中的"椒盐噪声"。选取两幅真实高光谱图像进行实验,结果表明,两阶段稀疏与低秩矩阵分解法和主成分分析法两种降噪方法具有较强的互补性;引导滤波方法使得分类图更加平滑且分类精度更高。与其他光谱空间分类方法相比,本文方法分类精度更高,且在样本极少时能获得很高的分类精度。     

Band Selection and Dimension Estimation for Hyperspectral Imagery—a New Approach Based on Invasive Weed Optimization

Currently, hyperspectral images have potential applications in many scientific areas due to the high spectral resolution. Extracting suitable and adequate bands/features from high dimensional data is a crucial task to classify such data. To overcome this issue, dimension reduction techniques have direct effects to improve the efficiency of classifiers on hyperspectral images. One common approach for decreasing the dimensionality is the feature/band selection by considering the optimum dimensionality of the hyperspectral imagery. In this paper, a new method was proposed to select optimal band for classification application, based on a metaheuristic Invasive Weed Optimization (IWO) algorithm. In this regard, the K-nearest neighbour (K-NN) technique was used as the classifier. Moreover, as a by-product of our band selection method, a new method was proposed to estimate an optimum dimension of the reduced hyperspectral images for better classification. Experimental results over three real-world hyperspectral datasets clearly showed that the proposed IWO-based band selection algorithm of this study led to the significant progress in selecting suitable bands for classification applications and estimation of optimum dimensionality of these datasets. In this regard, the overall accuracy (OA) of classification of the proposed IWO-based band selection algorithm was 92.02, 93.57, and 89.72 % for each dataset, respectively. Moreover, results reveal the superiority of the proposed IWO-based band selection algorithm against the other algorithms including GA, SA, ACO, and PSO for band selection purpose.     

A Multiple SVM System for Classification of Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Data

With recent technological advances in remote sensing sensors and systems, very high-dimensional hyperspectral data are available for a better discrimination among different complex land-cover classes. However, the large number of spectral bands, but limited availability of training samples creates the problem of Hughes phenomenon or ‘curse of dimensionality’ in hyperspectral data sets. Moreover, these high numbers of bands are usually highly correlated. Because of these complexities of hyperspectral data, traditional classification strategies have often limited performance in classification of hyperspectral imagery. Referring to the limitation of single classifier in these situations, Multiple Classifier Systems (MCS) may have better performance than single classifier. This paper presents a new method for classification of hyperspectral data based on a band clustering strategy through a multiple Support Vector Machine system. The proposed method uses the band grouping process based on a modified mutual information strategy to split data into few band groups. After the band grouping step, the proposed algorithm aims at benefiting from the capabilities of SVM as classification method. So, the proposed approach applies SVM on each band group that is produced in a previous step. Finally, Naive Bayes (NB) as a classifier fusion method combines decisions of SVM classifiers. Experimental results on two common hyperspectral data sets show that the proposed method improves the classification accuracy in comparison with the standard SVM on entire bands of data and feature selection methods.     

基于混合式特征选择的高分五号影像农田识别

精准农田识别是农作物估产和粮食安全评估的基础。遥感数据作为农田识别的重要数据源,可提供动态、快速的监测结果。高光谱数据在农田识别分类方面具有巨大的应用潜力,但其中的冗余波段影响了分类效率和分类精度。因此,本研究提出了一种适用于高光谱数据农田分类的混合式特征选择算法。首先,基于变量的重要性排序或约束程度,按步长逐步进行降维;其次,寻找分类精度骤减的转折点,并将其对应的变量作为特征子集;最后,利用序列后向选择SBS（Sequential Backward Selection）方法搜索最优分类特征子集。本研究利用GF-5高光谱数据,共研究了3种降维方法（随机森林RF（Random Forest）、互信息MI（Multi-Information）和L1正则化（L1 regularization））和3种分类算法（随机森林、支持向量机SVM（Support Vector Machine）和K近邻KNN（K-Nearest Neighbor））的组合在农田分类中的表现。结果表明,基于L1正则化法得到的特征子集自相关性较低,并且包含的红边和近红外波段有效提高了农田、森林和裸土的区分度。在不同分类模型比较中发现,SVM在高维空间中表现出非常好的抗噪能力,分类精度高于RF和KNN。而RF在低维空间中的泛化能力要高于SVM和KNN。相比于第一步降维得到的特征子集,使用SBS搜索得到的最优特征子集均提高了分类精度。最终,具有23维输入的L1-SVM-SBS分类模型得到了最高的总体分类精度（94.64%）和农田召回率（95.83%）。本研究为高光谱数据特征优选提供了一种新思路,筛选出了更具代表性的特征波段,提高了农田分类精度,对高光谱遥感分类研究具有参考价值。     

运用禁忌搜索算法进行高光谱影像降维的研究

本文在分析了传统降维方法所面临问题的基础上，将禁忌搜索算法引入到高光谱影像的特征选择研究，指出由于禁忌搜索算法所具有的良好全局寻优能力，因而在该类影像的降维研究中有着广阔的应用前景。针对高维光谱数据的特点，讲述了算法运行过程中需注意的若干关键问题。实验表明，将禁忌搜索算法获取的波段进行高光谱影像分类，在求解的时间上和分类结果的精度都可达到令人满意的效果。     

利用天宫一号高光谱数据识别植被类型的评估研究

天宫一号高光谱数据尚未得到普遍应用,其数据的质量和应用潜力仍在进一步实践求证和挖掘.See5.0数据挖掘工具是一种能够找出训练样本中模式类隐含特征,并可以自动建立决策规则的分类算法,可避免人为建立分类规则的主观性.本文首先通过光谱曲线分析,选择地物光谱分离性最好的波段组合,然后利用See5.0工具生成规则集,再利用规则集对同一幅天宫一号高光谱数据在不同分类级别上进行分类,并利用相同的验证样本进行精度验证.经过光谱分析发现分类不同森林类型的最佳谱段中心波长分别为:655 nm、673 nm、802 nm、866 nm、984 nm,See5.0分类结果表明在同一树种不同生长期及不同亚种的分类级别上,分类精度在45%以下,表现出了一定局限性,但在树种分类级别上,天宫一号数据表现出了高光谱的优越性,分类精度皆在80%以上,植被类型分类级别,分类精度可达到90%以上.     

Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Classifications: A Perspective Survey

Classification of hyperspectral remote sensing data is more challenging than multispectral remote sensing data because of the enormous amount of information available in the many spectral bands. During the last few decades, significant efforts have been made to investigate the effectiveness of the traditional multispectral classification approaches on hyperspectral data. Formerly extensively established conventional classification methods have been dominated by the advanced classification approaches and many pre‐processing techniques have been developed and incorporated in hyperspectral classification. A perspective survey of hyperspectral remote sensing classification approaches is presented here. It comprehensively highlights the taxonomy of major classification approaches reported during the last two decades and describes an experimental evaluation of a few major classification algorithms. Recent advancements in the development of classification approaches are also emphasized with a set of guidelines for achieving better classification performances.     

Margin-based feature selection for hyperspectral data

A margin-based feature selection approach is explored for hyperspectral data. This approach is based on measuring the confidence of a classifier when making predictions on a test data. Greedy feature flip and iterative search algorithms, which attempts to maximise the margin-based evaluation functions, were used in the present study. Evaluation functions use linear, zero–one and sigmoid utility functions where a utility function controls the contribution of each margin term to the overall score. The results obtained by margin-based feature selection technique were compared to a support vector machine-based recurring feature elimination approach. Two different hyperspectral data sets, one consisting of 65 bands (DAIS data) and other with 185 bands (AVIRIS data) were used. With digital airborne imaging spectrometer (DAIS) data, the classification accuracy by greedy feature flip algorithm and sigmoid utility function was 93.02% using a total of 24 selected features in comparison to an accuracy of 91.76% with full set of 65 features. The results suggest a significant increase in classification accuracy with 24 selected features. The classification accuracy (93.4%) achieved by the iterative search margin-based algorithm with 20 selected features using sigmoid utility function is also significantly more accurate than that achieved with 65 features. To judge the usefulness of margin-based feature selection approaches, another hyperspectral data set consisting of 185 features was used. A total of 65 selected features were used to evaluate the performance of margin-based feature selection approach. The results suggest a significantly improved performance by greedy feature flip-based feature selection technique with this data set also. This study also suggest that margin-based feature selection algorithms provide a comparable performance to support vector machine-based recurring feature elimination approach.     

基于非线性判别分析的高光谱影像特征提取

高光谱遥感影像丰富的光谱信息有利于深入挖掘目标的理化特性,精细识别不同目标间的细微差异。为了提高影像分类识别的精度与速度需要对光谱信息进行特征提取。基于核函数的判别分析能够在数据中提取非线性特征,本文将其应用到高光谱影像分类的特征提取中,并进行了最小距离分类实验取得理想结果。     

A Hierarchical Hybrid SVM Method for Classification of Remotely Sensed Data

The focus of this work is on developing a new hierarchical hybrid Support Vector Machine (SVM) method to address the problems of classification of multi or hyper spectral remotely sensed images and provide a working technique that increases the classification accuracy while lowering the computational cost and complexity of the process. The paper presents issues in analyzing large multi/hyper spectral image data sets for dimensionality reduction, coping with intra pixel spectral variations, and selection of a flexible classifier with robust learning process. Experiments conducted revealed that a computationally cheap algorithm that uses Hamming distance between the pixel vectors of different bands to eliminate redundant bands was quite effective in helping reduce the dimensionality. The paper also presents the concept of extended mathematical morphological profiles for segregating the input pixel vectors into pure or mixed categories which will enable further computational cost reductions. The proposed method’s overall classification accuracy is tested with IRS data sets and the Airborne Visible Infrared Imaging Spectroradiometer Indian Pines hyperspectral benchmark data set and presented.     

Dimensionality reduction of hyperspectral data using spectral fractal feature

A new approach for dimensionality reduction of hyperspectral data has been proposed in this article. The method is based on extraction of fractal-based features from the hyperspectral data. The features have been generated using spectral fractal dimension of the spectral response curves (SRCs) after smoothing, interpolating and segmenting the curves. The new features so generated have then been used to classify hyperspectral data. Comparing the post classification accuracies with some other conventional dimensionality reduction methods, it has been found that the proposed method, with less computational complexity than the conventional methods, is able to provide classification accuracy statistically equivalent to those from conventional methods.     

基于小波特征融合的Hyperion影像降维方法

根据影像中地物光谱曲线的小波特征点确定地物识别的合适光谱分辨率,通过融合原先若干窄波段生成具有适合地物识别光谱分辨率的宽波段数据,达到降维高光谱数据的目的。文中对hyperion影像进行坏线和Smile效应去除,经过FLAASH大气校正,得到155个波段。对提取的八类地物的样本平均光谱进行DB4小波分解,计算小波细节系数方差;以小波细节系数信息熵作为特征点,得出不可渗透表面、居民地、水田、裸土4类地物识别适宜光谱分辨率为80nm,其余地物识别适宜光谱分辨率为160nm。以窄波段间的活跃度为指标进行融合,生成降维后的宽波段分别是21个波段和11个波段。8类地物在3尺度和4尺度下的分类结果说明降维影像能满足应用需求,提出的降维方法可行。     

基于光谱相似性的多光谱数据纹理编码算法研究

基于多光谱纹理“映射模式”概念，提出了基于光谱数据相似性的多光谱、高光谱数据的编码方法。利用光谱相似测度对不同类型的纹理进行编码，表征地物的全局纹理特征，将纹理提取的算法扩展到多维光谱图像分析中，提出了多尺度纹理组合算法。试验证明，该方法合理有效，可大大提高分类的准确性和精度。     

采用IDL小波工具优化高光谱影像光谱特征匹配分类

光谱特征匹配分类是常用的高光谱影像分类、识别地物的方法,针对高光谱影像提取植被盖度存在的问题,文章根据高光谱遥感影像处理的方法,采用EO-1卫星在广州市过境的Hyperion高光谱影像,以＂广州南肺＂万亩果园作为试验区,经过大气纠正——最小噪声分离变换（MNF）——最纯净像元指数计算（PPI）——提取植被的端元,以此作为研究区识别植被的参考样本,进行光谱特征匹配提取植被盖度。其中提出利用连续小波变换对参考端元的波谱曲线降噪的方法,旨在优化光谱特征匹配,以提高识别植被的精度。实验结果表明,这种辅助匹配的方法能有效提高识别植被的精度。     

波段选择协同表达高光谱异常探测算法

高光谱遥感影像具有光谱分辨率极高的特点,承载了大量可区分不同类型地物的诊断性光谱信息以及区分亚类相似地物之间细微差别的光谱信息,在目标探测领域具有独特的优势。与此同时,高光谱遥感影像也带来了数据维数高、邻近波段之间存在大量冗余信息的问题,高维度的数据结构往往使得高光谱影像异常目标类和背景类之间的可分性降低。为了缓解上述问题,本文提出了一种基于波段选择的协同表达高光谱异常探测算法。首先,使用最优聚类框架对高光谱波段进行选择,获得一组波段子集来表示原有的全部波段,使得高光谱影像异常目标类与背景类之间的可分性增强。然后使用协同表达对影像上的像元进行重建,由于异常目标类和背景类之间的可分性增强,对异常目标像元进行协同表达时将会得到更大的残差,异常目标像元的输出值增大,可以更好地实现异常目标和背景类的分离。本文使用了3组高光谱影像数据进行异常目标探测实验,实验结果表明,该方法与其他现有高光谱异常目标探测算法对比,曲线下面积AUC(Area Under Curve)值更高,可以更好地实现异常目标与背景分离,能够更有效地对高光谱影像进行异常目标探测。