Stochastic Perturbations on Low-Rank Hyperspectral Data for Image Classification

Hyperspectral imagery (HSI) contains hundreds of narrow contiguous bands of spectral signals. These signals, which form spectral signatures, provide a wealth of information that can be used to characterize material substances. In recent years machine learning has been used extensively to classify HSI data. While many excellent HSI classifiers have been proposed and deployed, the focus has been more on the design of the algorithms. This paper presents a novel data preprocessing method (LRSP) to improve classification accuracy by applying stochastic perturbations to the low-rank constituent of the dataset. The proposed architecture is composed of a low-rank and sparse decomposition, a degradation function and a constraint least squares filter. Experimental results confirm that popular state-of-the-art HSI classifiers can produce better classification results if supplied by LRSP-altered datasets rather than the original HSI datasets.