Dynamic classifier selection using spectral-spatial information for hyperspectral image classification

This paper presents a new dynamic classifier selection approach for hyperspectral image classification, in which both spatial and spectral information are used to determine a pixel’s label once the remaining classified pixels’ neighborhood meets the threshold. For volumetric texture feature extraction, a volumetric gray level co-occurrence matrix is used; for spectral feature extraction, a minimum estimated abundance covariance-based band selection is used. Two hyperspectral remote sensing datasets, HYDICEWashington DCMall and AVIRIS Indian Pines, are employed to evaluate the performance of the developed method. The classification accuracies of the two datasets are improved by 1.13% and 4.47%, respectively, compared with the traditional algorithms using spectral information. The experimental results demonstrate that the integration of spectral information with volumetric textural features can improve the classification performance for hyperspectral images. © 2014 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) [DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.8.XXXXXX]