Spectral and Spatio-relational Transductive Ensemble of Classifiers

S2TEC Learner





 
A short description 
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A short description

Remotely sensed hyperspectral image classification is a very challenging task. This is due to two different aspects: the spatial correlation of the spectral signature and the high cost of true sample labeling. In this situation, the collective inference paradigm allows us to manage the spatial correlation between spectral responses of neighboring pixels, as interacting pixels are labeled simultaneously. On the other hand, the transductive inference paradigm allows us to reduce the inference error for the given set of unlabeled data, as sparsely labeled pixels are learned by accounting for both labeled and unlabeled information. In this paper, both these paradigms contribute to the definition of a spectral-relational classification methodology for imagery data.
S2TEC (Spectral and Spatio-relational Transductive Ensemble of Classifiers) is a novel hyperspectral image classification algorithm to assign a class to each pixel of a sparsely labeled hyperspectral image. It integrates the spectral information and the spatial correlation through an ensemble system. Relational information is iteratively extracted at the object (set of pixels) level rather than at the conventional pixel level. Spatial neighborhoods are defined and used to construct relational features. Classification is performed with an ensemble using the available spectral information and the extracted spatio-relational information. The more reliable labels predicted by the ensemble are fed back to the labeled part of the image.

The distribution package

The S2TEC algorithm is implemented in a Java system. It integrates the inductive Support Vector Machine (SVM) as a base classifier of the transductive ensemble system. It uses the Java implementation of SVM included in the WEKA toolkit.

jar Description
S2TEC This rar bundle contains (1) s2tec.jar that allows us to classify sparsely labeled hyperspectral images by integrating spectral information and the spatial correlation through an ensemble system in the transductive setting; (2) config file and (3) benchmark images (Indian Pines, Pavia University and Salinas Valley)

Warning: The S2TEC Learner is free for evaluation, research and teaching purposes, but not for commercial purposes.
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Related publications

 
Appice, A., Guccione, P., Malerba, D. Transductive hyperspectral image classification: toward integrating spectral and relational features via an iterative ensemble system (2016) Machine Learning, pp. 1-33. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1007/s10994-016-5559-7

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Project team

  • Dr. Annalisa APPICE
  • Dr. Ing. Pietro GUCCIONE
  • Prof. Donato MALERBA


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    Annalisa Appice annalisa.appice@uniba.it +39 080 5443262 +39 080 5443262
     

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