Feature extraction from hyperspectral images compressed using the JPEG-2000 standard
Muneesh Pal, Christopher M. Brislawn, SP Brumby · 2003
We present results quantifying the exploitability of compressed remote sensing imagery. The performance of various feature extraction and classification tasks is measured on hyperspectral images coded using the JPEG-2000 Standard. Spectral decorrelation is performed using the Karhunen-Loeve transform and the 9-7 wavelet transform as part of the JPEG-2000 process. The quantitative performance of supervised, unsupervised, and hybrid classification tasks is reported as a function of the compressed bit rate for each spectral decorrelation scheme. The tasks examined are shown to perform with 99% accuracy at rates as low as 0.125 bits/pixel/band. This suggests that one need not limit remote sensing systems to lossless compression only, since many common classification tools perform reliably on images compressed to very low bit rates.