Title
Classifying Remote Sensing Data with Support Vector Machines and Imbalanced Training Data
Abstract
The classification of remote sensing data with imbalanced training data is addressed. The classification accuracy of a supervised method is affected by several factors, such as the classifier algorithm, the input data and the available training data. The use of an imbalanced training set, i.e., the number of training samples from one class is much smaller than from other classes, often results in low classification accuracies for the small classes. In the present study support vector machines (SVM) are trained with imbalanced training data. To handle the imbalanced training data, the training data are resampled (i.e., bagging) and a multiple classifier system, with SVM as base classifier, is generated. In addition to the classifier ensemble a single SVM is applied to the data, using the original balanced and the imbalanced training data sets. The results underline that the SVM classification is affected by imbalanced data sets, resulting in dominant lower classification accuracies for classes with fewer training data. Moreover the detailed accuracy assessment demonstrates that the proposed approach significantly improves the class accuracies achieved by a single SVM, which is trained on the whole imbalanced training data set.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-02326-2_38
MCS
Keywords
Field
DocType
support vector machines,input data,imbalanced training data,single svm,imbalanced training set,classifying remote sensing data,training data,whole imbalanced training data,available training data,imbalanced training data set,fewer training data,imbalanced data set,support vector machine,support vector,bagging,multispectral
Structured support vector machine,Training set,Data set,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Multispectral image,Support vector machine,Remote sensing,Artificial intelligence,Classifier (linguistics),Training data sets,Machine learning
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5519
0302-9743
9
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.53
19
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Björn Waske143524.75
Jon Atli Benediktsson24064251.17
Johannes R. Sveinsson3115095.58