Ms. Yanli Sun Profile

Yanli Sun

at Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth

SPIE Involvement:

Author

Publications (2)

Proceedings Article | 24 October 2016 Presentation + Paper

A new semi-supervised classification strategy combining active learning and spectral unmixing of hyperspectral data

Yanli Sun, Xia Zhang, Antonio Plaza, Jun Li, Inmaculada Dópido, Yi Liu

Proceedings Volume 10007, 1000708 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2241635

KEYWORDS: Hyperspectral imaging, Image classification, Remote sensing, Analytical research, Image analysis, Statistical analysis, Visible radiation, Data communications, Sun, Lithium

Read Abstract +

Hyperspectral remote sensing allows for the detailed analysis of the surface of the Earth by providing high-dimensional images with hundreds of spectral bands. Hyperspectral image classification plays a significant role in hyperspectral image analysis and has been a very active research area in the last few years. In the context of hyperspectral image classification, supervised techniques (which have achieved wide acceptance) must address a difficult task due to the unbalance between the high dimensionality of the data and the limited availability of labeled training samples in real analysis scenarios. While the collection of labeled samples is generally difficult, expensive, and time-consuming, unlabeled samples can be generated in a much easier way. Semi-supervised learning offers an effective solution that can take advantage of both unlabeled and a small amount of labeled samples. Spectral unmixing is another widely used technique in hyperspectral image analysis, developed to retrieve pure spectral components and determine their abundance fractions in mixed pixels. In this work, we propose a method to perform semi-supervised hyperspectral image classification by combining the information retrieved with spectral unmixing and classification. Two kinds of samples that are highly mixed in nature are automatically selected, aiming at finding the most informative unlabeled samples. One kind is given by the samples minimizing the distance between the first two most probable classes by calculating the difference between the two highest abundances. Another kind is given by the samples minimizing the distance between the most probable class and the least probable class, obtained by calculating the difference between the highest and lowest abundances. The effectiveness of the proposed method is evaluated using a real hyperspectral data set collected by the airborne visible infrared imaging spectrometer (AVIRIS) over the Indian Pines region in Northwestern Indiana. In the paper, techniques for efficient implementation of the considered technique in high performance computing architectures are also discussed.

Proceedings Article | 24 October 2016 Presentation + Paper

A multiple criteria-based spectral partitioning method for remotely sensed hyperspectral image classification

Yi Liu, Jun Li, Antonio Plaza, Yanli Sun

Proceedings Volume 10007, 100070C (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2241299

KEYWORDS: Image classification, Hyperspectral imaging, Remote sensing, Feature extraction, Imaging systems, Spectroscopy, Surface plasmons, Scene classification, Principal component analysis, Signal to noise ratio

Read Abstract +

Hyperspectral remote sensing offers a powerful tool in many different application contexts. The imbalance between the high dimensionality of the data and the limited availability of training samples calls for the need to perform dimensionality reduction in practice. Among traditional dimensionality reduction techniques, feature extraction is one of the most widely used approaches due to its flexibility to transform the original spectral information into a subspace. In turn, band selection is important when the application requires preserving the original spectral information (especially the physically meaningful information) for the interpretation of the hyperspectral scene. In the case of hyperspectral image classification, both techniques need to discard most of the original features/bands in order to perform the classification using a feature set with much lower dimensionality. However, the discriminative information that allows a classifier to provide good performance is usually classdependent and the relevant information may live in weak features/bands that are usually discarded or lost through subspace transformation or band selection. As a result, in practice, it is challenging to use either feature extraction or band selection for classification purposes. Relevant lines of attack to address this problem have focused on multiple feature selection aiming at a suitable fusion of diverse features in order to provide relevant information to the classifier. In this paper, we present a new dimensionality reduction technique, called multiple criteria-based spectral partitioning, which is embedded in an ensemble learning framework to perform advanced hyperspectral image classification. Driven by the use of a multiple band priority criteria that is derived from classic band selection techniques, we obtain multiple spectral partitions from the original hyperspectral data that correspond to several band subgroups with much lower spectral dimensionality as compared with the original band set. An ensemble learning technique is then used to fuse the information from multiple features, taking advantage of the relevant information provided by each classifier. Our experimental results with two real hyperspectral images, collected by the reflective optics system imaging spectrometer (ROSIS) over the University of Pavia in Italy and the Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) over the Salinas scene, reveal that our presented method, driven by multiple band priority criteria, is able to obtain better classification results compared with classic band selection techniques. This paper also discusses several possibilities for computationally efficient implementation of the proposed technique using various high-performance computing architectures.

View contact details

UPDATE YOUR PROFILE

Is this your profile? Update it now.

Sign into your SPIE.org account

Don’t have a profile and want one?

Create an account on SPIE.org

Keywords/Phrases

Search In:

Publication Years