Hyperspectral image classification using improved multi-scale block local binary pattern and bi-exponential edge-preserving smoother

In this paper, a multi-strategy fusion (MSF) framework, based on improved MBLBP and bi-exponential edge-preserving smoother (BEEPS), is proposed for hyperspectral image (HSI) classification. First, MBLBP operator is adopted to characterize the overall structural information of HSI, where the averaging strategy allocates same weights for the pixels in a local sub-region, so that the edges tend to be blurred due to being isotropic. To solve this question, the steering kernel is first introduced into MBLBP for learning the local structure prior of HSI. Then, a support vector machine classifier is used to calculate the soft classified probabilities of pixels. Furthermore, BEEPS is adopted to smooth the soft classified probabilities maps in the post-processing stage, and the purpose is to further improve classification accuracy of HSI by considering context-aware information for each class label. Experiments are performed on three real hyperspectral datasets, namely, Indian Pines, KSC, and Houston 2013, only 1%, 6, and 5 labeled samples are randomly selected for training, the overall accuracy(kappa) obtained by MSF is 99.47%(99.40), 99.52%(99.47), and 94.25%(93.78), respectively, which is far better than the contrast methods.