Hyperspectral image compression using JPEG2000 and principal component analysis

Principal component analysis (PCA) is deployed in JPEG2000 to provide spectral decorrelation as well as spectral dimensionality reduction. The proposed scheme is evaluated in terms of rate-distortion performance as well as in terms of information preservation in an anomaly-detection task. Additionally, the proposed scheme is compared to the common approach of JPEG2000 coupled with a wavelet transform for spectral decorrelation. Experimental results reveal that, not only does the proposed PCA-based coder yield rate-distortion and information-preservation performance superior to that of the wavelet-based coder, the best PCA performance occurs when a reduced number of PCs are retained and coded. A linear model to estimate the optimal number of PCs to use in such dimensionality reduction is proposed.