Efficient hyperspectral image segmentation using geometric active contour formulation

Fatema A. Albalooshi; Paheding Sidike; Vijayan K. Asari

doi:10.1117/12.2067475

23 October 2014 Efficient hyperspectral image segmentation using geometric active contour formulation

Fatema A. Albalooshi, Paheding Sidike, Vijayan K. Asari

Proceedings Volume 9244, Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing XX; 924406 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2067475
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2014, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

In this paper, we present a new formulation of geometric active contours that embeds the local hyperspectral image information for an accurate object region and boundary extraction. We exploit self-organizing map (SOM) unsupervised neural network to train our model. The segmentation process is achieved by the construction of a level set cost functional, in which, the dynamic variable is the best matching unit (BMU) coming from SOM map. In addition, we use Gaussian filtering to discipline the deviation of the level set functional from a signed distance function and this actually helps to get rid of the re-initialization step that is computationally expensive. By using the properties of the collective computational ability and energy convergence capability of the active control models (ACM) energy functional, our method optimizes the geometric ACM energy functional with lower computational time and smoother level set function. The proposed algorithm starts with feature extraction from raw hyperspectral images. In this step, the principal component analysis (PCA) transformation is employed, and this actually helps in reducing dimensionality and selecting best sets of the significant spectral bands. Then the modified geometric level set functional based ACM is applied on the optimal number of spectral bands determined by the PCA. By introducing local significant spectral band information, our proposed method is capable to force the level set functional to be close to a signed distance function, and therefore considerably remove the need of the expensive re-initialization procedure. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed technique, we use real-life hyperspectral images and test our algorithm in varying textural regions. This framework can be easily adapted to different applications for object segmentation in aerial hyperspectral imagery.

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Fatema A. Albalooshi, Paheding Sidike, and Vijayan K. Asari "Efficient hyperspectral image segmentation using geometric active contour formulation", Proc. SPIE 9244, Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing XX, 924406 (23 October 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2067475

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