Remote Sensing Image Classification: No Features, No Clustering

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 5158-5170

  Cui, Shiyong ^a   Schwarz, Gottfried ^a   Datcu, Mihai ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bag of words (BoW); dictionary learning; feature extraction; image classification; unsupervised feature learning

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); EXTRACTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE OPTICS;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION METHODS; IMAGE REPRESENTATIONS; LOCAL FEATURE EXTRACTION; REMOTE SENSING IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; UNSUPERVISED FEATURE LEARNING;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA SET; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; INNOVATION; LEARNING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 84947999115     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2495267     Document Type: Article

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