An artificial immune system approach for unsupervised pattern recognition in multispectral remote-sensing imagery

  • Authors:
  • Victor-Emil Neagoe;Catalina-Elena Neghina

  • Affiliations:
  • Depart. Electronics, Telecommunications & Information Technology, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania;Depart. Electronics, Telecommunications & Information Technology, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

  • Venue:
  • ACC'11/MMACTEE'11 Proceedings of the 13th IASME/WSEAS international conference on Mathematical Methods and Computational Techniques in Electrical Engineering conference on Applied Computing
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This paper presents an improved Artificial Immune System (AIS) approach for unsupervised classification in multispectral remote-sensing imagery. For benchmarking, one has considered several unsupervised nature-inspired intelligent classifiers (AIS, neural, fuzzy) versus statistical ones. We have comparatively evaluated the following pattern recognition techniques: the proposed AIS model; Self-Organizing Map (SOM); Vector Quantization SOM (VQSOM); Fuzzy C-means, and K-means. The considered techniques have been evaluated using both synthetic and real datasets. The real datasets correspond to the LANDSAT 7 ETM+ multispectral image (341 × 343 pixels) taken in June 2000, representing a region of Bucharest, Romania. There have been considered four pattern classes: artificial surfaces, agricultural area, forest, water. One has also evaluated the case of choosing a balanced dataset from the LANDSAT image, with equal number of 800 selected multispectral pixels per class. For the balanced LANDSAT dataset with 3 bands (1, 4, 5), the best experimental correct recognition score is of 93.78% for AIS model followed by the scores of 89.09% for the 5 × 5 neuron SOM model, 83.28% for VQSOM, 84.18% for Fuzzy C-means, and 83.15% for K-means.