Optimal Clustering Framework for Hyperspectral Band Selection
Northwestern Polytechnical University（西北工业大学）；Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院西安光学精密机械研究所）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）
Qi Wang, Fahong Zhang, Xuelong Li
发表信息：
IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 56, no. 10, pp. 5910-5922, 2018
Band selection, by choosing a set of representative bands in hyperspectral image (HSI), is an effective method to reduce the redundant information without compromising the original contents. Recently, various unsupervised band selection methods have been proposed, but most of them are based on approximation algorithms which can only obtain suboptimal solutions toward a specific objective function. This paper focuses on clustering-based band selection, and proposes a new framework to solve the above dilemma, claiming the following contributions: 1) An optimal clustering framework (OCF), which can obtain the optimal clustering result for a particular form of objective function under a reasonable constraint. 2) A rank on clusters strategy (RCS), which provides an effective criterion to select bands on existing clustering structure. 3) An automatic method to determine the number of the required bands, which can better evaluate the distinctive information produced by certain number of bands. In experiments, the proposed algorithm is compared to some state-of-the-art competitors. According to the experimental results, the proposed algorithm is robust and significantly outperform the other methods on various data sets.
Liaoning Technical University（辽宁工程技术大学）；Haixi Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院海西研究院）；Technical University of Munich（慕尼黑工业大学）；Hong Kong Polytechnic University（香港理工大学）
The high dimensionality of hyperspectral images often results in the degradation of clustering performance. Due to the powerful ability of deep feature extraction and non-linear feature representation, the clustering algorithm based on deep learning has become a hot research topic in the field of hyperspectral remote sensing. However, most deep clustering algorithms for hyperspectral images utilize deep neural networks as feature extractor without considering prior knowledge constraints that are suitable for clustering. To solve this problem, we propose an intra-class distance constrained deep…
University of the Witwatersrand（金山大学）；School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics（计算机科学与应用数学系）
Dictionary learning and sparse coding have been widely studied as mechanisms for unsupervised feature learning. Unsupervised learning could bring enormous benefit to the processing of hyperspectral images and to other remote sensing data analysis because labelled data are often scarce in this field. We propose a method for clustering the pixels of hyperspectral images using sparse coefficients computed from a representative dictionary as features. We show empirically that the proposed method works more effectively than clustering on the original pixels. We also demonstrate that our approach, i…
Delhi Technical University（德里技术大学）；Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi（德里因陀罗普拉斯塔信息技术学院）
Subspace clustering techniques have shown promise in hyperspectral image segmentation. The fundamental assumption in subspace clustering is that the samples belonging to different clusters/segments lie in separable subspaces. What if this condition does not hold? We surmise that even if the condition does not hold in the original space, the data may be nonlinearly transformed to a space where it will be separable into subspaces. In this work, we propose a transformation based on the tenets of deep dictionary learning (DDL). In particular, we incorporate the sparse subspace clustering (SSC) los…
University of Missouri（密苏里大学）；Mississippi State University（密西西比州立大学）
Hyperspectral imaging is a powerful technology that is plagued by large dimensionality. Herein, we explore a way to combat that hindrance via non-contiguous and contiguous (simpler to realize sensor) band grouping for dimensionality reduction. Our approach is different in the respect that it is flexible and it follows a well-studied process of visual clustering in high-dimensional spaces. Specifically, we extend the improved visual assessment of cluster tendency and clustering in ordered dissimilarity data unsupervised clustering algorithms for supervised hyperspectral learning. In addition, w…
Rochester Institute of Technology（罗切斯特理工学院）；Department of Defense（美国国防部）；Florida Atlantic University（佛罗里达大西洋大学）；University of California, Davis（加州大学戴维斯分校）
In this paper we present a new dynamical systems algorithm for clustering in hyperspectral images. The main idea of the algorithm is that data points are pushed\' in the direction of increasing density and groups of pixels that end up in the same dense regions belong to the same class. This is essentially a numerical solution of the differential equation defined by the gradient of the density of data points on the data manifold. The number of classes is automated and the resulting clustering can be extremely accurate. In addition to providing a accurate clustering, this algorithm presents a ne…
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Remote Sensing Technology Institute (IMF), German Aerospace Center (DLR)（德国航空航天中心遥感技术研究所）；Data Science in Earth Observation (SiPEO, former: Signal Processing in Earth Observation), Technical University of Munich (TUM)（慕尼黑工业大学地球观测数据科学）；Technical University of Munich (TUM)（慕尼黑工业大学）
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Accurate land cover segmentation of spectral images is challenging and has drawn widespread attention in remote sensing due to its inherent complexity. Although significant efforts have been made for developing a variety of methods, most of them rely on supervised strategies. Subspace clustering methods, such as Sparse Subspace Clustering (SSC), have become a popular tool for unsupervised learning due to their high performance. However, the computational complexity of SSC methods prevents their use on large spectral remotely sensed datasets. Furthermore, since SSC ignores the spatial informati…
This paper aims at developing a clustering approach with spectral images directly from the compressive measurements of coded aperture snapshot spectral imager (CASSI). Assuming that compressed measurements often lie approximately in low dimensional subspaces corresponding to multiple classes, state of the art methods generally obtains optimal solution for each step separately but cannot guarantee that it will achieve the globally optimal clustering results. In this paper, a low-rank subspace representation (LRSR) algorithm is proposed to perform clustering on the compressed measurements. In ad…
In recent years, Hyperspectral Imaging (HSI) has become a powerful source for reliable data in applications such as remote sensing, agriculture, and biomedicine. However, hyperspectral images are highly data-dense and often benefit from methods to reduce the number of spectral bands while retaining the most useful information for a specific application. We propose a novel band selection method to select a reduced set of wavelengths, obtained from an HSI system in the context of image classification. Our approach consists of two main steps: the first utilizes a filter-based approach to find rel…
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona（加州州立理工大学波莫纳分校）；University of California, Davis（加州大学戴维斯分校）
The large data size and dimensionality of hyperspectral data demands complex processing and data analysis. Multispectral data do not suffer the same limitations, but are normally restricted to blue, green, red, red edge, and near infrared bands. This study aimed to identify the optimal set of spectral bands for nitrogen detection in grape leaves using ensemble feature selection on hyperspectral data from over 3,000 leaves from 150 Flame Seedless table grapevines. Six machine learning base rankers were included in the ensemble: random forest, LASSO, SelectKBest, ReliefF, SVM-RFE, and chaotic cr…
LiDAR-Guided Cross-Attention Fusion for Hyperspectral Band Selection and Image Classification
School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University（格里菲斯大学信息与通信技术学院）；Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries（昆士兰州农业与渔业厅）
In this paper, we introduce a new algorithm based on archetypal analysis for blind hyperspectral unmixing, assuming linear mixing of endmembers. Archetypal analysis is a natural formulation for this task. This method does not require the presence of pure pixels (i.e., pixels containing a single material) but instead represents endmembers as convex combinations of a few pixels present in the original hyperspectral image. Our approach leverages an entropic gradient descent strategy, which (i) provides better solutions for hyperspectral unmixing than traditional archetypal analysis algorithms, an…
Rochester Institute of Technology（罗切斯特理工学院）；The Boeing Company（波音公司）
Hyperspectral sensors enable the study of the chemical properties of scene materials remotely for the purpose of identification, detection, and chemical composition analysis of objects in the environment. Hence, hyperspectral images captured from earth observing satellites and aircraft have been increasingly important in agriculture, environmental monitoring, urban planning, mining, and defense. Machine learning algorithms due to their outstanding predictive power have become a key tool for modern hyperspectral image analysis. Therefore, a solid understanding of machine learning techniques hav…
Integrating Feature Selection and Machine Learning for Nitrogen Assessment in Grapevine Leaves using In-Field Hyperspectral Imaging
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