A new bandwidth selection criterion for using SVDD to analyze hyperspectral data

This paper presents a method for hyperspectral image classification that uses support vector data description (SVDD) with the Gaussian kernel function. SVDD has been a popular machine learning technique for single-class classification, but selecting the proper Gaussian kernel bandwidth to achieve the best classification performance is always a challenging problem. This paper proposes a new automatic, unsupervised Gaussian kernel bandwidth selection approach which is used with a multiclass SVDD classification scheme. The performance of the multiclass SVDD classification scheme is evaluated on three frequently used hyperspectral data sets, and preliminary results show that the proposed method can achieve better performance than published results on these data sets.