Ensemble Learning for Hyperspectral Image Classification Using Tangent Collaborative Representation

Recently, collaborative representation classification (CRC) has attracted much attention for hyperspectral image analysis. In particular, tangent space CRC (TCRC) has achieved excellent performance for hyperspectral image classification in a simplified tangent space. In this article, novel Bagging-based TCRC (TCRC-bagging) and Boosting-based TCRC (TCRC-boosting) methods are proposed. The main idea of TCRC-bagging is to generate diverse TCRC classification results using the bootstrap sample method, which can enhance the accuracy and diversity of a single classifier simultaneously. For TCRC-boosting, it can provide the most informative training samples by changing their distributions dynamically for each base TCRC learner. The effectiveness of the proposed methods is validated using three real hyperspectral data sets. The experimental results show that both TCRC-bagging and TCRC-boosting outperform their single classifier counterpart. In particular, the TCRC-boosting provides superior performance compared with the TCRC-bagging.