Discriminant sub-dictionary learning with adaptive multiscale superpixel representation for hyperspectral image classification

Abstract

Sparse representation and dictionary learning have been successfully applied in hyperspectral image classification. Generally, it is more effective to learn the sub-dictionary for each class and utilize multiple scale strategy. However, the sub-dictionary may only consider the within-class information and ignore the discriminative information. For multiscale sparse representation, the shape of the regions would not adaptively change according to context structure. This paper proposes a discriminative sub-dictionary learning algorithm and an adaptive multiscale superpixel classification strategy under sparse representation framework for hyperspectral image classification. In dictionary learning stage, the global constraint term can ensure the learnt sub-dictionaries contain more discriminative information. In sparse representation stage, the adaptive multiscale superpixel strategy can exploit the spatial context according to the structural information. The combination of the two strategies can further explore the spatial and spectral information in hyperspectral image. Experiments on four hyperspectral image datasets prove that the proposed method has a significant improvement in both quantitative and qualitative analysis comparing with state-of-the-art algorithms. Moreover, the proposed algorithm can produce satisfactory results for the imbalanced data problem involved in hyperspectral image.