J4 ›› 2015, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (3): 48-53+128.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-2400.2015.03.009

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Combined similarity based spectral clustering ensemble for POLSAR classification

LIU Lu;WANG Rongfang;JIAO Licheng;SHI Junfei   

  1. (Ministry of Education Key Lab. of Intelligent Perception and Image Understanding, Xidian Univ., Xi'an  710071, China)
  • Received:2014-08-06 Online:2015-06-20 Published:2015-07-27
  • Contact: LIU Lu E-mail:liulu0613@163.com

Abstract:

In order to improve the robustness of spectral clustering to the scaling parameter and avoid the instable results caused by the Nystrm approximation, a novel spectral clustering ensemble method for Polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) land cover classification is proposed. Firstly, Wishart-derived distance measure and polarimetric similarity are combined to obtain the complementary information from the spatial and polarimetric relations between pairwise pixels. The Markov Random Field (MRF) potential function is introduced to construct the similarity matrix. Then the Nystrm approximation based spectral clustering is employed to achieve a single spectral classification of PolSAR data. Finally, multiple individual classifications are obtained and integrated by an ensemble strategy. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method improves the classification performance and region harmony, and leads to stable results.

Key words: polarimetric synthetic aperture radar, spectral clustering ensemble, Wishart distance, MRF

CLC Number: 

  • TP75