New iterative learning strategy to improve classification systems by using outlier detection techniques
Charlotte Pelletier, Silvia Valero, Jordi Inglada, Gérard Dedieu, Nicolas Champion · 2017
The supervised classification of satellite image time series allows obtaining reliable land cover maps over large areas. However, their quality depends on the reference datasets used for training the classifier. In remote sensing, reference data may lack of timeliness and accuracy which leads to the presence of mislabeled data degrading the classification performances. This work presents an iterative learning framework to deal with noisy instances, that can be seen as outliers. Several outlier detection strategies, based on the well-known Random Forests (RF) ensemble classifier, are proposed, evaluated quantitatively, and then compared with traditional methods. Experimental results have been carried out by using synthetic and real datasets representing annual vegetation profiles.