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Change detection in multitemporal hyperspectral images (HSI) can be regarded as a classification task, consisting of two steps: change feature extraction and identification. To extract clean change features from heavily corrupted spectral change vectors (SCV) of multitemporal HSI, this paper proposes a novel spectrally-spatially regularized low-rank and sparse decomposition model (LRSDSS). It exploits...
Reference data (“ground truth”) maps are commonly used to quantitatively assess the performance of imaging spectrometer classification algorithms. However, standard reference data scenes typically are not sufficiently detailed to support assessment of spectral unmixing algorithms. Furthermore, commonly used reference data often lack validation reports that estimate error in the reference data itself,...
In the quest of developing more accurate methodologies for Earth Observation (EO) image retrieval, visualization and information content exploration, a deep understanding of the data being analyzed is needed. In this paper we propose a simple but efficient visual data mining methodology that can be used for these tasks. Our solution consists in a patch-based feature extraction to derive image features...
This work introduces a cloud shadow removal method for hyperspectral images (HSIs) based on hyperspectral unmixing. The shading is modeled by a spectral offset and a spectral-dependent attenuation. The offset and the attenuation are estimated by solving a nonconvex optimization problem, which exploits the linear mixing model (LMM). The mixing matrix of the LMM is estimated from the unshadowed image...
In this work, a diversified deep structural metric learning is proposed for remote sensing image classification. Firstly, a deep structural metric learning is introduced to take full advantage of structural information of training batches. Secondly, we impose a diversity regularization over the factors of deep structural metric learning to encourage them to be uncorrelated, such that each factor tends...
Airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology is an active remote sensing technique that produces a true orthophoto at a single wavelength. LiDAR is not as dependent on the weather as optical sensors, and LiDAR features have been widely applied for characterizing land cover classes of interest. Instead of using point-based features for classification, object-based LiDAR features were employed...
In this work, we develop a new framework to combine ensemble learning and composite kernel learning for hyperspectral image classification. We refer it as the multiple composite kernel learning, which is based on an iterative architecture. More specifically, in each iteration, we use the rotation-based ensemble to create rotation matrix, which is used to generate rotated features for both spectral...
Extinction profile (EP) is an effective feature extraction method which can well preserve the geometrical characteristics of a hyperspectral image (HSI) and by extracting the EP from first three independent components (ICs) of an HSI, three correlated and complementary groups of EP features can be constructed. In this paper, an EPs fusion (EPs-F) strategy is proposed for HSI classification by exploring...
Classification of SAR images is a challenging task as the radiometric properties of a class may not be constant throughout the image. The assumption made in most classification algorithms that a class can be modeled by constant parameters is then not valid. In this paper, we propose a classification algorithm based on two Markov random fields that accounts for local and global variations of the parameters...
The detection and classification of SAR imaged vessels at sea is a valuable ability for organisations interested in the marine environment or marine vessels. Matching the SAR detected vessels to their AIS messages allows vessels to be identified and context given to their activities. With sparse AIS data, or other identifying geospatial data, an amount of positional uncertainty is introduced that...
Detections and classification of non-AIS-compliant vessels is an important ability for countries or institutions interested in MDA. SAR has been proven to be an effective method but there exists a trade-off between the area that can be imaged and the resolution of each image pixel. Large swath SAR images are a cost effective method of performing maritime surveillance but classification or identification...
Airborne Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) data are widely used for high-resolution land cover mapping. The LiDAR data are typically used as complementary information to passive multispectral or hyperspectral imagery to obtain higher land cover classification accuracy. In this paper, we examine the capabilities of a recently developed multispectral airborne laser scanner, manufactured by Teledyne...
In this paper, we focus on the classification of lidar point cloud data acquired via mobile laser scanning, whereby the classification relies on a context model based on a Conditional Random Field (CRF). We present two approximate inference algorithms based on belief propagation, as well as a graph-cut-based approach not yet applied in this context. To demonstrate the performance of our approach,...
Forest stands are a basic unit of analysis for forest inventory and mapping. Stands are defined as large forested areas of homogeneous tree species composition and age. Their accurate delineation is usually performed by human operators through visual analysis of very high resolution (VHR) infra-red and visible images. This task is tedious, highly time consuming, and needs to be automated for scalability...
In this paper, we propose a kernel low-rank multitask learning (KL-MTL) method to handle multiple features from the variational mode decomposition (VMD) domain for hyperspectral (HSI) classification. Core ideas of the proposed method are twofold: 1) a non-recursive VMD method is applied to extract various features (i.e. intrinsic mode functions (IMFs)) of the original data concurrently; 2) KL-MTL...
Mapping sea ice and open water in the oceans is significant for many applications. Accurate and robust classification methods of sea ice and open water are in demand by ice services. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are becoming increasingly popular in many research communities due to availability of large image datasets and high-performance computing systems. As Convolutional networks (ConvNets)...
Morphology profiles (MPs) have been applied to the processing of different types of imagery, which have highly improved the segmentation and classification results. MPs can both preserve spatial structures of objects and construct the multiscale description of images. Since the speckle noise inherent in the images, the classification of PolSAR images cannot obtain satisfied results. In this paper,...
Hyperspectral images have recently become one of the finest basis for highly accurate identification of objects. Such images, however, are very large in size and carry huge information. Processing and handling of such information is also quite resource savvy and require complex algorithms as well. In this paper, an intelligent classification method has been proposed. Using two independent, simple...
In the hyperspectral remote sensing community, decision forests combine the predictions of multiple decision trees (DTs) to achieve better prediction performance. Two well-known and powerful decision forests are Random Forest (RF) and Rotation Forest (RoF). In this work, a novel decision forest, called Partial Least Square Forest (PLSF), is proposed. In the PLSF, we adapt PLS to obtain the components...
In this paper, the tensor-based offset-sparsity decomposition (TOSD) method, or low-rank and sparse decomposition, is applied to hyperspectral imagery, where the low-rank tensor is considered to be enhanced or pruned data and used for classification. In the tensor form of dataset, all the information of the original 3D data cube, includes spatial and spectral information, can be better reserved. To...
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