Unsupervised hyperspectral imagery classification via sparse multi-way models and image fusion

Inspired by the recent rapid progress of l1-norm minimization techniques and the great success of sparse dictionary learning in image modeling, this paper proposes a sparse multi-way models clustering fusion technique to improve the classification performance in hyperspectral imagery. Multi-way models consider hyperspectral imagery data as a whole entity to treat jointly spatial and spectral modes. The whole clustering fusion method is composed three steps. Firstly, the complete hyperspectral data is grouped into several independent sub-band data sources. Then, sparse multi-way model is used to feature extraction in every band set, and divide the scene into a series of homomorphic regions. At last, we propose a fusion method to combine the information provided by each band set, it can acquire approximate supervised classification performance (such as K-nearest Neighbor classifier).The experimental results on the HYDICE imagery demonstrate the efficiency and superiority of the proposed clustering method to the classical K-means clustering method.