Classification of textures in satellite image with Gabor filters and a multi layer perceptron with back propagation algorithm obtaining high accuracy

Abstract

The classification of images, in many cases, is applied to identify an alphanumeric string, a facial expression or any other characteristic. In the case of satellite images is necessary to classify all the pixels of the image. This article describes a supervised classification method for remote sensing images that integrates the importance of attributes in selecting features with the efficiency of artificial neural networks in the classification process, resulting in high accuracy for real images. The method consists of a texture segmentation based on Gabor filtering followed by an image classification itself with an application of a multi layer artificial neural network with a back propagation algorithm. The method was first applied to a synthetic image, like training, and then applied to a satellite image. Some results of experiments are presented in detail and discussed. The application of the method to the synthetic image resulted in the identification of 89.05% of the pixels of the image, while applying to the satellite image resulted in the identification of 85.15% of the pixels. The result for the satellite image can be considered a result of high accuracy. Copyright © 2015 International Energy and Environment Foundation All rights reserved.