Support vector regression-based 3D-wavelet texture learning for hyperspectral image compression

Hyperspectral imaging is known for its rich spatial–spectral information. The spectral bands provide the ability to distinguish substances spectra which are substantial for analyzing materials. However, high-dimensional data volume of hyperspectral images is problematic for data storage. In this paper, we present a lossy hyperspectral image compression system based on the regression of 3D wavelet coefficients. The 3D wavelet transform is applied to sparsely represent the hyperspectral images (HSI). A support vector machine regression is then applied on wavelet details and provides vector supports and weights which represent wavelet texture features. To achieve the best possible overall rate-distortion performance after regression, entropy encoding based on run-length encoding and arithmetic encoding is used. To preserve the spatial pertinent information of the image, the lowest sub-band wavelet coefficients are furthermore encoded by a lossless coding with differential pulse code modulation. Spectral and spatial redundancies are thus substantially reduced. Experimental tests are performed over several HSI from airborne and spaceborne sensors and compared with the main existing algorithms. The obtained results show that the proposed compression method has high performances in terms of rate distortion and spectral fidelity. Indeed, high PSNRs and classification accuracies, which could exceed 40.65 dB and 75.8% , respectively, are observed for all decoded HSI images and overpass those given by many cited famous methods. In addition, the evaluation of detection and compression over various bands shows that spectral information is preserved using our compression method.