Robust Hyperspectral Image Domain Adaptation With Noisy Labels

Abstract

In hyperspectral image (HSI) classification, domain adaptation (DA) methods have been proved effective to address unsatisfactory classification results caused by the distribution difference between training (i.e., source domain) and testing (i.e., target domain) pixels. However, these methods rely on accurate labels in source domain, and seldom consider the performance drop resulted by noisy label, which often happens since labeling pixel in HSI is a challenging task. To improve the robustness of DA method to label noise, we propose a new unsupervised HSI DA method, which is constructed from both feature-level and classifier-level. First, a linear transformation function is learned in feature-level to align the source (domain) subspace with the target (domain) subspace. Then, a robust low-rank representation based classifier is developed to well cope with the features obtained from the aligned subspace. Since both subspace alignment and the classifier are immune to noisy labels, the proposed method obtains good classification results when confronting with noisy labels in source domain. Experimental results on two DA benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.