Bayesian classification of hyperspectral imagery based on probabilistic sparse representation and Markov random field

This letter presents a Bayesian method for hyperspectral image classification based on the sparse representation (SR) of spectral information and the Markov random field modeling of spatial information. We introduce a probabilistic SR approach to estimate the class conditional distribution, which proved to be a powerful feature extraction technique to be combined with the label prior distribution in a Bayesian framework. The resulting maximum a priori problem is estimated by a graph-cut-based α-expansion technique. The capabilities of the proposed method are proven in several benchmark hyperspectral images of both agricultural and urban areas.