Journal Article

·2013

Segmentation of hyperspectral images using local covariance matrices in eigenspace

Ugur Ergul YTU , Gökhan Bilgin YTU

Abstract

In this work, segmentation of hyperspectral images by local covariance matrices in eigenspace has been proposed for getting high accuracy rates using unsupervised methods. Combination of both spectral and spatial features can increase the segmentation accuracy for hyperspectral images without groundtruth. Furthermore, changing from original data space to eigenspace via principal component analysis and its kernelized version and the calculation of covariance matrices in this new space can produce better results for different clustering methods. In the simulations, effects of local neighbors in the computation of covariance matrices in eigenspace were represented using four different clustering algorithms comparatively.

Keywords

Hyperspectral imaging Covariance Pattern recognition (psychology) Principal component analysis Cluster analysis Artificial intelligence Eigenvalues and eigenvectors Covariance matrix Spectral clustering Mathematics Computation Computer science Segmentation Algorithm Statistics

Subject Areas

Remote-Sensing Image Classification ·Media Technology ·Physical Sciences
Remote Sensing and Land Use ·Atmospheric Science ·Physical Sciences
Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques ·Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ·Physical Sciences