Hyperspectral Image Classification Using Weighted Joint Collaborative Representation

Recently, representation-based classifiers have gained increasing interest in hyperspectral image (HSI) classification. In this letter, based on our previously developed joint collaborative representation (JCR) classifier, an improved version, which is called weighted JCR (WJCR) classifier, is proposed. JCR adopts the same weights when extracting spatial and spectral features from surrounding pixels. Differing from JCR, WJCR attempts to utilize more appropriate weights by considering the similarity between the center pixel and its surroundings. Experimental results using two real HSIs demonstrate that the proposed WJCR outperforms the original JCR and some other traditional classifiers, such as the support vector machine (SVM), the SVM with a composite kernel, and simultaneous orthogonal matching pursuit.