Abstract
Traditional statistical models for remote sensing data have mainly focused on the magnitude of feature vectors. To perform clustering with directional properties of feature vectors, other valid models need to be developed. Here we first describe the transformation of hyperspectral images onto a unit hyperspherical manifold using the recently proposed spherical local embedding approach. Spherical local embedding is a method that computes high-dimensional local neighborhood preserving coordinates of data on constant curvature manifolds. We then propose a novel von Mises-Fisher (vMF) distribution based approach for unsupervised classification of hyperspectral images on the established spherical manifold. A vMF distribution is a natural model for multivariate data on a unit hypersphere. Parameters for the model are estimated using the Expectation-Maximization procedure. A set of experimental results on modeling hyperspectral images as vMF mixture distributions demonstrate the advantages.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Advances in Data Mining |
| Subtitle of host publication | Applications and Theoretical Aspects - 11th Industrial Conference, ICDM 2011, Proceedings |
| Pages | 134-146 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
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| State | Published - 2011 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 11th Industrial Conference on Data Mining, ICDM 2011 - New York, NY, United States Duration: Aug 30 2011 → Sep 3 2011 |
Publication series
| Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
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| Volume | 6870 LNAI |
| ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Conference
| Conference | 11th Industrial Conference on Data Mining, ICDM 2011 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | New York, NY |
| Period | 08/30/11 → 09/3/11 |
Funding
Acknowledgements. The authors would like to thank the reviewers for helpful comments that improved the final draft of this paper. We also acknowledge inputs and insights from Dr Sergey Kirshner on related topics during the course of the study. Dalton has previously been supported by Fulbright, the National Research Foundation of South Africa and The Oppenheimmer Memorial Trust. The authors would like to thank the reviewers for helpful comments that improved the final draft of this paper. We also acknowledge inputs and insights from Dr Sergey Kirshner on related topics during the course of the study. Dalton has previously been supported by Fulbright, the National Research Foundation of South Africa and The Oppenheimmer Memorial Trust.
Keywords
- directional data
- hyperspectral image clustering
- mixture models
- spherical manifolds