Title
Parallel supervised land-cover classification system for hyperspectral and multispectral images.
Abstract
Hyperspectral and multispectral imagery allows remote-sensing applications such as the land-cover mapping, which is a significant baseline to understand and to monitor the Earth. Furthermore, it is a relevant process for socio-economic activities. For that reason, high land-classification accuracies are imperative, and minor image processing time is essential. In addition, the process of gathering classes’ documented samples is complicated. This implies that the classification system is required to perform with a limited number of training observations. Another point worth mentioning is that there are hardly any methods that can be used analogously for hyperspectral or multispectral images. This paper aims to propose a novel classification system that can be used for both types of images. The designed classification system is composed of a novel parallel feature extraction algorithm, which utilises a cluster of two graphics processing units in combination with a multicore central processing unit (CPU), and an artificial neural network (ANN) particularly devised for the classification of the features ensued by the implemented feature extraction method. To prove the performance of the proposed classification system, it is compared with non-parallel and CPU-only-parallel implementations employing multispectral and hyperspectral databases. Moreover, experiments with different number of samples for training the classifier are performed. Finally, the proposed ANN is compared with a state-of-the-art support vector machine in classification and processing time results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1007/s11554-018-0828-2
J. Real-Time Image Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Land-cover mapping,Hyperspectral images,Multispectral images,Artificial neural networks,GPU computing,Multicore computing
Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Multispectral image,Support vector machine,Image processing,Hyperspectral imaging,Feature extraction,General-purpose computing on graphics processing units,Artificial intelligence,Classifier (linguistics),Artificial neural network
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
15
3
1861-8200
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
25
Authors
4