The high dimensionality of hyperspectral images consisting of several bands often imposes a big computational challenge for image processing. Therefore, spectral band selection is an essential step for removing the irrelevant, noisy and redundant bands. Consequently, increasing the classification accuracy. However, identification of useful bands from hundreds or even thousands of related bands is a nontrivial task. This paper aims at identifying a small set of highly discriminative bands, for improving computational speed and prediction accuracy. Hence, we proposed a new strategy based on joint mutual information to measure the statistical dependence and correlation between the selected bands and evaluate the relative utility of each one to classification. The proposed filter approach is compared to an effective reproduced filters based on mutual information. Simulations results on the hyperspectral image HSI AVIRIS 92AV3C using the SVM classifier have shown that the effective proposed algorithm outperforms the reproduced filters strategy performance.
Band selection is a great challenging task in the classification of hyperspectral remotely sensed images HSI. This is resulting from its high spectral resolution, the many class outputs and the limited number of training samples. For this purpose, this paper introduces a new filter approach for dimension reduction and classification of hyperspectral images using information theoretic (normalized mutual information) and support vector machines SVM. This method consists to select a minimal subset of the most informative and relevant bands from the input datasets for better classification efficiency. We applied our proposed algorithm on two well-known benchmark datasets gathered by the NASA's AVIRIS sensor over Indiana and Salinas valley in USA. The experimental results were assessed based on different evaluation metrics widely used in this area. The comparison with the state of the art methods proves that our method could produce good performance with reduced number of selected bands in a good timing.
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