Feature Extraction of Hyperspectral Images With Semi-supervised Sparse Graph Learning

Abstract

We propose a semisupervised sparse graph learning (SSGL) method for feature extraction of hyperspectral remote sensing imagery in this paper. The proposed SSGL method aims to build a semisupervised sparse graph that can maximize the class discrimination and preserve the local neighborhood information by combining labeled and unlabeled samples. In our semisupervised sparse graph, we connect labeled samples according to their label information and sparse representation, connect unlabeled samples by sparse representation which set unlabeled training samples set as dictionary. Moreover, by setting sparse connections between labeled sample and unlabeled samples, the label information can be well propagated from labeled samples to unlabeled samples. In this way, the similarity of data points can be well modelled in the spectral feature space, and the data distribution characteristics can be better expressed. Experimental results on real hyperspectral images (HSIs) demonstrate the advantages of our method compared to some related feature extraction methods.