Improved Probabilistic Active Support Vector Machine based Remote Sensing Image Classification

Most existing methods of active support vector machine (ASVM) focus on the samples nearby the current separating hyperplane, which ignore some support vector (SV) samples which are far form the separating hyperplane, also pay not attention on whether the current separating hyperplane is close to the optimal one. In this paper a new classification method of ASVM based on improved probability-calculation method is presented. It not only presents a new method of calculating probability, but also measures the degree of closeness of the current separating hyperplane to the actual separating hyperplane by a confidence factor. Experimental results show the superiority of our proposed method both in classification accuracy and computing cost.