Band selection and evaluation with spatial information

Abstract

ABSTRACTSpatial information has been widely used for hyperspectral image classification, which can dramatically improve the classification accuracy. Though band selection is an important pre-processing step for hyperspectral image processing, spatial information has not been well exploited in this field. In this article, we will exploit the spatial information for band selection. This article mainly includes two parts: algorithm design, and algorithm evaluation. In the first part, we propose an efficient band selection method by using the spatial structure information and spectral information. In the second part, we advocate the use of the local spatial filtering and the spectral-spatial classifier for evaluating the performance of band selection algorithms instead of the traditional pixel-wise classifiers. Comprehensive experiments over diverse publicly available benchmark data sets reveal some interesting results.