Combining clustering and classification for remote-sensing images using unlabeled data

A joint clustering and classification approach is proposed.This approach exploits unlabeled data for efficient clustering,which is applied in the classification with support vector machine(SVM) in the case of small-size training samples.The proposed method requires no prior information on data labels,and yields better cluster structures.Through cluster assumption and the notions of support vectors,the most confident k cluster centers and data points near the cluster boundaries are labeled and used to train a reliable SVM classifier.Our method gains better estimation of data distributions and mitigates the unrepresentative problem of small-size training samples.The data set collected from Landsat Thematic Mapper(Landsat TM-5) validates the effectiveness of the proposed approach.