Determination of Optimum SVMs Based on Genetic Algorithm in Classification of Hyper spectral Imagery

Hyper spectral remote sensing imagery، due to its rich source of spectral information provides an efficient tool for ground classifications in complex geographical areas with similar classes. Referring to robustness of Support Vector Machines (SVMs) in high dimensional space، they are efficient tool for classification of hyper spectral imagery. However، there are two optimization issues which strongly effect on the SVMs performance: Optimum SVMs parameters determination and optimum feature subset selection. Traditional optimization algorithms are appropriate in limited search space but they usually trap in local optimum in high dimensional space، therefore it is inevitable to apply meta-heuristic optimization algorithms such as Genetic Algorithm to obtain global optimum solution. This paper evaluates the potential of different proposed optimization scenarios in determining of SVMs parameters and feature subset selection based on Genetic Algorithm (GA). Obtained results on AVIRIS Hyper spectral imagery demonstrate superior performance of SVMs achieved by simultaneously optimization of SVMs parameters and input feature subset. In Gaussian and Polynomial kernels، the classification accuracy improves by about 5% and15% respectively and more than 90 redundant bands are eliminated. For comparison، the evaluation is also performed by applying it to Simulated Annealing (SA) that shows a better performance of Genetic Algorithm especially in complex search space where parameter determination and feature selection are solve simultaneously.