Nonlocal Correntropy Matrix Representation for Hyperspectral Image Classification.

Hyperspectral image (HSI) classification is a hot topic in the remote sensing community. However, it is challenging to fully use spatial–spectral information for HSI classification due to the high dimensionality of the data, high intraclass variability, and the limited availability of training samples. To deal with these issues, we propose a novel feature extraction method called nonlocal correntropy matrix (NLCM) representation in this letter. NLCM can characterize the spectral correlation and effectively extract discriminative features for HSI classification. We verify the effectiveness of the proposed method on two widely used datasets. The results show that NLCM performs better than the state-of-the-art methods, especially when the training set size is small. Furthermore, the experimental results also demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms compared methods significantly when the land covers are complex and with irregular distributions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]