1. Improving cloud type classification of ground-based images using region covariance descriptors.
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Tang, Yuzhu, Yang, Pinglv, Zhou, Zeming, Pan, Delu, Chen, Jianyu, and Zhao, Xiaofeng
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SOIL classification ,RIEMANNIAN manifolds ,SUPPORT vector machines ,CLIMATE change ,DISTRIBUTION (Probability theory) ,CLASSIFICATION - Abstract
The distribution and frequency of occurrence of different cloud types affect the energy balance of the Earth. Automatic cloud type classification of images continuously observed by the ground-based imagers could help climate researchers find the relationship between cloud type variations and climate change. However, by far it is still a huge challenge to design a powerful discriminative classifier for cloud categorization. To tackle this difficulty, in this paper, we present an improved method with region covariance descriptors (RCovDs) and the Riemannian bag-of-feature (BoF) method. RCovDs model the correlations among different dimensional features, which allows for a more discriminative representation. BoF is extended from Euclidean space to Riemannian manifold by k -means clustering, in which Stein divergence is adopted as a similarity metric. The histogram feature is extracted by encoding RCovDs of the cloud image blocks with a BoF-based codebook. The multiclass support vector machine (SVM) is utilized for the recognition of cloud types. The experiments on the ground-based cloud image datasets show that a very high prediction accuracy (more than 98 % on two datasets) can be obtained with a small number of training samples, which validate the proposed method and exhibit the competitive performance against state-of-the-art methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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