[The hierarchical clustering analysis of hyperspectral image based on probabilistic latent semantic analysis]

The paper introduces the Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis (PLSA) to the image clustering and an effective image clustering algorithm using the semantic information from PLSA is proposed which is used for hyperspectral images. Firstly, the ISODATA algorithm is used to obtain the initial clustering result of hyperspectral image and the clusters of the initial clustering result are considered as the visual words of the PLSA. Secondly, the object-oriented image segmentation algorithm is used to partition the hyperspectral image and segments with relatively pure pixels are regarded as documents in PLSA. Thirdly, a variety of identification methods which can estimate the best number of cluster centers is combined to get the number of latent semantic topics. Then the conditional distributions of visual words in topics and the mixtures of topics in different documents are estimated by using PLSA. Finally, the conditional probabilistic of latent semantic topics are distinguished using statistical pattern recognition method, the topic type for each visual in each document will be given and the clustering result of hyperspectral image are then achieved. Experimental results show the clusters of the proposed algorithm are better than K-MEANS and ISODATA in terms of object-oriented property and the clustering result is closer to the distribution of real spatial distribution of surface.