Title
A New GPU Implementation of Support Vector Machines for Fast Hyperspectral Image Classification.
Abstract
The storage and processing of remotely sensed hyperspectral images (HSIs) is facing important challenges due to the computational requirements involved in the analysis of these images, characterized by continuous and narrow spectral channels. Although HSIs offer many opportunities for accurately modeling and mapping the surface of the Earth in a wide range of applications, they comprise massive data cubes. These huge amounts of data impose important requirements from the storage and processing points of view. The support vector machine (SVM) has been one of the most powerful machine learning classifiers, able to process HSI data without applying previous feature extraction steps, exhibiting a robust behaviour with high dimensional data and obtaining high classification accuracies. Nevertheless, the training and prediction stages of this supervised classifier are very time-consuming, especially for large and complex problems that require an intensive use of memory and computational resources. This paper develops a new, highly efficient implementation of SVMs that exploits the high computational power of graphics processing units (GPUs) to reduce the execution time by massively parallelizing the operations of the algorithm while performing efficient memory management during data-reading and writing instructions. Our experiments, conducted over different HSI benchmarks, demonstrate the efficiency of our GPU implementation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.3390/rs12081257
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
hyperspectral images (HSIs),support vector machines (SVMs),graphics processing units (GPUs),hardware parallelization
Journal
12
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
8
1
0.36
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mercedes Eugenia Paoletti110.36
Juan Mario Haut253.12
Xuanwen Tao341.82
Javier Plaza456158.04
Antonio Plaza53475262.63