Distributed Lossless Compression Algorithm for Hyperspectral Images Based on Classification

This article addresses the problem of distributed lossless compression for hyperspectral images and proposes an effective lossless compression algorithm based on classification. First, a band selection algorithm was performed on the hyperspectral images to select those bands with considerable information. Next, the K-means algorithm was performed on those selected bands to obtain the classification map. To make full use of the spectral and spatial correlation, a multilinear regression model was introduced to construct the high-quality side information of each class within the identical block according to the classification map. Subsequently, the (n, k) linear grouping codes were employed to perform the distributed source coding for each class separately. The experimental results showed that the proposed algorithm has a competitive lossless compression performance compared with other state-of-the-art algorithms.