Diversity-Driven Multikernel Collaborative Representation Ensemble for Hyperspectral Image Classification

Recently, kernel collaborative representation classification (KCRC) has shown its outstanding performance in dealing with the problem of linear inseparability in hyperspectral remote sensing image classification. Meanwhile, ensemble learning has attracted great attention in improving the performance of a single classifier. Aiming at the limitation of a single classifier, bagging algorithm based on KCRC(KCRC-bagging) is presented in this article. The KCRC-bagging method uses bootstrap to increase the diversity of base classifiers, thus improving the classification accuracy and generalization performance. In order to reduce the scale of ensemble, a diversity-driven multikernel collaborative representation classifier ensemble approach (DIV-KCRC) is proposed. DIV-KCRC verifies the effectiveness of the representation classifier with the pair of diversity measures, and classifiers with high accuracy and diversity are selected to improve the classification performance and efficiency of the ensemble system. Three real hyperspectral data sets were applied to prove the validity of the proposed method. The experimental results demonstrate that both KCRC-bagging and DIV-KCRC can yield better classification performance than their corresponding base classifiers. In particular, DIV-KCRC provides more reliable classification results than KCRC-bagging.