Band selection for hyperspectral image classification with spatial-spectral regularized sparse graph

Sparsity preserving projection is a well-known dimensionality reduction method that preserves the sparse representation relationship among data in low-dimensional space, which is beneficial for classification. The idea of sparsity preserving is applied to band selection for hyperspectral classification. Considering the spatial distribution characteristic of hyperspectral image (HSI), a spatial-spectral regularized sparse graph (ssRSG), which could utilize the spatial-spectral information in HSI to promote the discriminability of extracted local structure, is proposed. For band selection, the L-2,L-1 norm is applied to restrain the projection matrix and make a few bands with high importance scores, which are computed by the contribution of bands in a projection matrix. According to the importance score, more important bands are selected. Two real hyperspectral images are used to validate the performance of the proposed method. (C) 2017 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)