An Enhanced Semi-Supervised Support Vector Machine Algorithm for Spectral-Spatial Hyperspectral Image Classification

Hyperspectral image classification has become an important issue in remote sensing due to the significant amount of spectral information in HSI. The costly and time-consuming annotation task of HSIs makes the number of labeled samples is limited. To address the above problem, we propose an enhanced semi-supervised support vector machine algorithm for spectral-spatial HSI classification. To fully capture the spectral and spatial information of HSI, we use local binary pattern to obtain spatial feature. The captured spatial features are concatenated with the spectral features to yield the hybrid spectral-spatial features. Self-training mechanism is then adopted to gradually select confident unlabeled samples with their pseudo-labels and add them to the labeled set. To further improve the classification performance of the semi-supervised support vector machine, we choose a cuckoo search algorithm based on the chaotic catfish effect to find its optimal combination of parameters. The experimental results on two publicly available HSI datasets show that the proposed model achieves excellent classification accuracy for each category in hyperspectral images, and also has superior overall accuracy compared with other comparative algorithms. Adequate experiments and analysis illustrate the promising potential and prospect of our proposed model for HSI classification.