Semi-supervised feature selection with sparse representation for hyperspectral image classification

Abstract

Dimensionality reduction is one of the most important steps for remotely sensed hyperspectral image classification. Feature selection as a kind of dimensionality reduction has attracted great attentions in the recent decades. In this paper, we proposed a novel feature selection method for hyperspectral image classification based on semi-supervised learning and sparsity score (or briefly called semi-supervised sparsity score (semi-SS)). In semi-SS, the pairwise constraints instead of class labels are used as the supervision information. Furthermore, the features chosen by Semi-SS have the ability to reconstruct the original data and sparsity preserving. Experiments conducted on two famous hyperspectral data sets illustrate that the proposed algorithm is remarkably effective in comparison to the existing feature selection methods.