Hybrid consensus theoretic classification

Jon Atli Benediktsson, Jóhannes Rúnar Sveinsson, Philip H. Swain

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Abstract

Hybrid classification methods based on consensus from several data sources are considered. Each data source is at first treated separately and modeled using statistical methods. Then weighting mechanisms are used to control the influence of each data source in the combined classification. The weights are optimized in order to improve the combined classification accuracies. Both linear and nonlinear optimization methods are considered and used in classification of two multisource remote sensing and geographic data sets. A nonlinear method which utilizes a neural network gives excellent experimental results. The hybrid statistical/neural method outperforms all other methods in terms of test accuracies in the experiments.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)833-843
Number of pages11
JournalIEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Volume35
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1997

Bibliographical note

Funding Information: Manuscript received September 13, 1996; revised March 3, 1997. This work was supported in part by the Icelandic Research Council and the Research Fund of the University of Iceland. J. A. Benediktsson and J. R. Sveinsson are with the Engineering Research Institute, University of Iceland, 107 Reykjavik, Iceland (e-mail: [email protected]). P. H. Swain is with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907 USA. Publisher Item Identifier S 0196-2892(97)04474-4.

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