Journal
ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING
Volume 77, Issue -, Pages 66-78Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2012.12.003
Keywords
Pixel classification; Support vector machines; Remote sensing satellite images; Quadratic programming; Semisupervised classification; Transductive learning
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Land cover classification using remotely sensed data requires robust classification methods for the accurate mapping of complex land cover area of different categories. In this regard, support vector machines (SVMs) have recently received increasing attention. However, small number of training samples remains a bottleneck to design suitable supervised classifiers. On the other hand, adequate number of unlabeled data is available in remote sensing images which can be employed as additional source of information about margins. To fully leverage all of the precious unlabeled data, integration of filtering in a transductive SVM is proposed. Using two labeled image datasets of small size and two large unlabeled image datasets, the effectiveness of the proposed method is explored. Experimental results show that the proposed technique achieves average overall accuracies of around 4.5-7.8%, 0.8-2.6% and 0.9-2.2% more than the standard inductive SVM (ISVM), progressive transductive SVM (PTSVM) and low density separation (LDS) classifiers, respectively on larger domains in case of labeled datasets. Using image datasets, visual interpretation from the classified images as well as the segmentation quality reveal that the proposed method can efficiently filter informative data from the unlabeled samples. (C) 2013 International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Inc. (ISPRS) Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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