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Articles | Volume I-3
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprsannals-I-3-377-2012
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprsannals-I-3-377-2012
23 Jul 2012
 | 23 Jul 2012

SEMI-SUPERVISED MARGINAL FISHER ANALYSIS FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION

H. Huang, J. Liu, and Y. Pan

Keywords: Hyperspectral image classification, dimensionality reduction, semi-supervised learning, manifold learning, marginal Fisher analysis

Abstract. The problem of learning with both labeled and unlabeled examples arises frequently in Hyperspectral image (HSI) classification. While marginal Fisher analysis is a supervised method, which cannot be directly applied for Semi-supervised classification. In this paper, we proposed a novel method, called semi-supervised marginal Fisher analysis (SSMFA), to process HSI of natural scenes, which uses a combination of semi-supervised learning and manifold learning. In SSMFA, a new difference-based optimization objective function with unlabeled samples has been designed. SSMFA preserves the manifold structure of labeled and unlabeled samples in addition to separating labeled samples in different classes from each other. The semi-supervised method has an analytic form of the globally optimal solution, and it can be computed based on eigen decomposition. Classification experiments with a challenging HSI task demonstrate that this method outperforms current state-of-the-art HSI-classification methods.