Title
Iterative Training Sample Expansion to Increase and Balance the Accuracy of Land Classification From VHR Imagery
Abstract
Imbalanced training sets are known to produce suboptimal maps for supervised classification. Therefore, one challenge in mapping land cover is acquiring training data that will allow classification with high overall accuracy (OA) in which each class is also mapped onto similar user's accuracy. To solve this problem, we integrated local adaptive region and box-and-whisker plot (BP) techniques into an iterative algorithm to expand the size of the training sample for selected classes in this article. The major steps of the proposed algorithm are as follows. First, a very small initial training sample (ITS) for each class set is labeled manually. Second, potential new training samples are found within an adaptive region by conducting local spectral variation analysis. Lastly, three new training samples are acquired to capture information regarding intraclass variation; these samples lie in the lower, median, and upper quartiles of BP. After adding these new training samples to the ITS, classification is retrained and the process is continued iteratively until termination. The proposed approach was applied to three very high-resolution (VHR) remote-sensing images and compared with a set of cognate methods. The comparison demonstrated that the proposed approach produced the best result in terms of OA and exhibited superiority in balancing user's accuracy. For example, the proposed approach was typically 2%-10% more accurate than the compared methods in terms of OA and it generally yielded the most balanced classification.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/TGRS.2020.2996064
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Land cover classification,training sample collection,very high-resolution remote-sensing image
Journal
59
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
0196-2892
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhi-yong Lv14711.83
Guangfei Li201.35
Zhenong Jin311.04
Jon Atli Benediktsson44064251.17
F. Ling593.40