Hyperspectral image classification based on composite kernel relevance vector machine

Abstract

This paper presents a composite kernel Relevance Vector Machine(RVM) algorithm, for enhanced classification accuracy of hyperspectral images. This paper constructs three forms of composite kernels based on properties of kernels. The spatial feature is extracted using multi-scale morphological method from the image after principal components transform. The final classification is achieved by composite kernel RVM classifier. The proposed approach is tested in experiments on AVIRIS data. Compared with spectral kernel RVM, the OA and Kappa coefficient of composite kernel RVM increased obviously. However, the training time dose not increased. Meanwhile, composite kernel RVM has ability to get high accuracy with relative small training set. The proposed method has practical use in hyperspectral imagery classification.