Spatial information based support vector machine for hyperspectral image classification

In this study, a novel spatial information based support vector machine for hyperspectral image classification, named spatial-contextual semi-supervised support vector machine (SC³SVM), is proposed. This approach modifies the SVM algorithm by using the spectral information and spatial-contextual information. The concept of SC³SVM is to utilize other information, obtain from the pixels of a neighborhood system in the spatial domain, to modify the effective of each patterns. Experimental results show a sound performance of classification on the famous hyperspectral images, Indian Pine site. Especially, the overall classification accuracy of whole hyperspectral image (Indian Pine site with 16 classes) is up to 96.4%, the kappa accuracy is up to 95.9%.