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Support Vector Machine Training of HMT Models for Land Cover Image Classification

 Reda A. El-Khoribi

Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University, 5 Zewail Street, Giza, Egypt

 
Abstract

This paper introduces a novel approach to supervised classification of multispectral images. The approach uses a new discriminative training algorithm for discrete hidden Markov tree (HMT) generative models applied to the multi-resolution ranklet transforms. System is implemented and tested on a set of Landsat 7-band images containing eight different land cover classes. Experimental results of the system show significant improvement over the baseline HMT system and give a superior performance in land cover classification.

Keywords: HMT, SVM, land cover classification, discriminative training.

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BibTex:

@ARTICLE{PP1150834318,

AUTHOR = {Reda A. El-Khoribi},

TITLE = {Support Vector Machine Training of HMT Models for Land Cover Image Classification},

JOURNAL ={ICGST International Journal on Graphics, Vision and Image Processing, GVIP},

YEAR = {2008},

VOLUME = {08},

ISSUE ={IV},

PAGES={7--11}

}

(P1150834318, 1.13 MB)