Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING
Volume 55, Issue 8, Pages 4398-4411Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2017.2691906
Keywords
Decision fusion; feature fusion; hyperspectral image (HSI) classification; pixel; subpixel; superpixel
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- National Natural Science Fund of China for Distinguished Young Scholars [61325007]
- National Natural Science Fund of China for International Cooperation and Exchanges [61520106001]
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Supervised classification of hyperspectral images (HSI) is a very challenging task due to the existence of noisy and mixed spectral characteristics. Recently, the widely developed spectral unmixing techniques offer the possibility to extract spectral mixture information at a subpixel level, which can contribute to the categorization of seriously mixed spectral pixels. Besides, it has been demonstrated that the discrimination between different materials will be improved by integrating the geometry and structure information, which can be derived from the variance between neighboring pixels. Furthermore, by incorporating the spatial context, the superpixel-based spectral-spatial similarity information can be used to smooth classification results in homogeneous regions. Therefore, a novel fusion framework for HSI classification that combines subpixel, pixel, and superpixel-based complementary information is proposed in this paper. Here, both feature fusion and decision fusion schemes are introduced. For the feature fusion scheme, the first step is to extract subpixel-level, pixel-level, and superpixel-level features from HSI, respectively. Then, the multiple feature-induced kernels are fused to form one composite kernel, which is incorporated with a support vector machine (SVM) classifier for label assignment. For the decision fusion scheme, class probabilities based on three different features are estimated by the probabilistic SVM classifier first. Then, the class probabilities are adaptively fused to form a probabilistic decision rule for classification. Experimental results tested on different real HSI images can demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed fusion schemes in improving discrimination capability, when compared
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