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VNƯ Jo u rn al o f Science, E a rth Sciences 28 (2012) 264-275
<i>Faculty o f Surveying and Mapping, Hanoi University o f M ining and Geology</i>
Received 03 September 2012
Revised 24 September 2012; accepted 15 October 2012
A bstract. Spatial resolution o f land covers from remotely sensed images can be increased using
super-resolution m apping techniques for soft-classified land cover proportions. A further
development o f super-resolution mapping techniques is downscaling the original remotely sensed
image usmg super-resolution mapping techniques with a forward model. In this paper, the model
for increasing spatial resolution o f remote sensing multispectral image is tested with real SPO T 5
imagery for an area in Bac Giang Province, Vietnam in order to evaluate the feasibility o f
application o f this model to the real imagery. The soft-classified land cover proportions obtained
using a fuzzy c-means classification are then used as input data for a Hopfield neural netw ork
(HNN) to predict the m ultispecừal images at sub-pixel spatial resolution. Visually, the resulted
image is compared with a SPOT 5 panchromatic image acquired at the same time with the
multispecừal data. The predicted image is apparently sharper than the original coarse spatial
resolution image.
<i>Keywords: Hopfield neural network optimisation, soft classification, image downscaling, forward </i>
model.
<b>1. Introduction </b> m apping such as E lad a n d F e u e r [1], T ipping
and B ishop [2]. A lthough w idely applied in
Spatial resolution o f im age and photos can im age processing, these approaches are hardly
be increased by the super-resolution algorithm s. applicable for super-resolution o f rem otely
In the im age processing context, im age super- sensed m ultispectral (M S) im agery because o f
resolution com m only refers to the process o f the lack o f a sequence o f im ages o f the scene at
using a set o f cross-correlated coarse spatial the same or sim ilar tim es. The only feasible
resolution im ages o f the sam e scene to obtain a application o f the super-resolution approaches
single higher spatial resolution im age. T here are using im age sequences is for hyperspectral
num erous studies on such super-resolution im agery [3]. F or o ther com m on m ultispectral
rem otely sensed im agery, only few m ethods for
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level have been proposed such as a Point
Spread Function-derived convolution filter [4],
segm entation technique [5], and geostatistical
m ethod [6],
Sub-pixel spatial resolution land cover
m aps can be predicted using super-resolution
m apping techniques. The input data for super
resolution m apping are com m only the land
cover proportions estim ated by soft-
classification [7], T here is a list o f super
resolution m apping techniques have been
inừoduced including spatial dependence
m axim isation [8], linear optim isation
techniques [9], H opfield neural netw ork (H NN )
optim isation [10], tw o-point histogram
optim isation [1 1], genetic algorithm s [12] and
feed-forw ard neural netw orks [13], The
supplem entary data are also supplied to H N N to
produce m ore accurate sub-pixel land cover
m aps such as m ultiple sub-pixel shifted im age
[14], fused and panchrom atic (PA N ) im agery
[15,16]. These latter approaches produce a
synthetic M S or PA N im age as an interm ediate
step for super-resolution m apping based on a
forw ard m odel and then these im ages are
com pared w ith the predicted and observed MS
or PAN im ages to produce an accurate sub
pixel image classification.
The creation o f the predicted M S an d then
PA N im age b y a forw ard m odel suggested a
possibility to im plem ent a super-resolution for
the M S image. A m ethod for increasing the
spatial resolution o f the original M S image IS
inừoduced by N guyen Q uang M inh et al [17].
T he new m odel is based on the H NN super
resolution m apping technique from
unsupervised soft-classification com bined w ith
a forw ard m odel using local end-m em ber
spectra [15,16]. T he m ethod is exam ined w ith a
degraded rem ote sensing im age and both visual
and statistical evaluations show n a good result.
H ow ever, there still exist som e concerns about
the feasibility o f the m odel because it is not
tested in a m ore com plicated landscape w ith
different kinds o f land cover features w hich are
varying in sizes and shapes as well as specfral
characteristics. This paper, therefore, is to
im plem ent the test o f the algorithm in a
com plicated landscape.
<b>2. G eneral m odel</b>
T he proposed m odel is an extension o f the
super-resolution m apping approach based on
H N N optim isation. T he prediction o f a MS
im age at the sub-pixel spatial resolution is
based on a forw ard m odel w ith local specfra as
w as used in N guyen et al., 2006 [15], In
addition to the goal functions and the
proportion con sừ ain t o f the H N N for super-
resolution m apping, a reflectance constraint is
used to retain the brighừiess values o f the
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<b>Spatial </b> <b>SR MS image (2 0 m)</b>
Figure 1. General model for super-resolution MS imagery prediction.
<b>Synthetic MS </b>
<b>image (4 0 m )</b>
Figure 1 presents the H N N sub-pixel MS
im age prediction algorithm . T he procedure is as
follow s: From the M S im ages at the original
M S spatial resolution, land cover area
proportion images are predicted using a soft-
classifier. A set o f local end-m em ber specừ a
v a lu e s is calc u la te d b a se d o n th e e stim a te d land
cover proportions and the original M S image.
L and cover proportions are then used to
constrain the H N N for super-resolution
m apping w ith a zoom factor z to produce the
land cover map at the sub-pixel spatial
resolution. From the super-resolution land
cover m ap at the first iteration, an estim ated MS
im age (at the sub-pixel spatial resolution) is
then produced using a forw ard m odel and the
estim ated local end-m em ber spectra. The
estim ated M S image is then convolved spatially
to create a synthetic M S im age at the coarse
spatial resolution o f the original image.
Follow ing a com parison o f the observed and
synthetic M S im ages, an error value is
produced to retain the brightness value o f the
pixels o f the original M S image. The process is
repeated until the energy function o f the HNN
is m inim ised and the synthetic M S im age is
generated.
A dem onsfration o f the algorithm for an
image o f 2x2 pixels can be d escn bed in Figure
2. Firstly, the soft-classification predicts land
cover proportion as in Figure lb from the MS
specừal im age as in Figure la. There are two
land covers in this im age called Class A and
Class B. From the land cover proportions in
Figure lb , the land cover classes at sub-pixel
level are predicted as in Figure Ic w here a pixel
is divided into 4 x 4 sub-pixels and the 2x2
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land cover image o f Class A and Class B. The
brightness o f the new 16x16 pixels image is
predicted using end-m em ber spectra (standard
brightness for the C lass A and B in this area o f
the image). For exam ple, the brightness o f the
pure pixel o f Class A is 35 and Class B is 50
and it is possible to produce a new spectra!
image by assigning all the sub-pixels belonging
to Class A the brightness value o f 35 and the
sub-pixels o f C lass B the brighừiess value o f 50
as in Figure Id.
100% land
coverA
50% land
c o v erA
50% land
c o v er B
62.5% land
cover A
37.5% land
cover B
100% land
coverB
(b)
Figure 1. Creation o f !6><16 pixels image from 2x2 pixels image.
<i>2.Ỉ. </i> <i>Soft-classification f o r super-resolution </i>
<i>m apping o f M S im agery</i>
Soft-classification is an intennediate step in
the sub-pixel M S im age predictio n process. The
prediction o f the M S im age based on super
resolution m apping requires land cover
proportions w hich are obtained from soft-
classi fication as input data. C onventionally,
there m ust be a set o f training data for m ost o f
the soft-classifiers. A ccordingly, it is necessary
to have som e prior infom iation about the
specừal distribution o f land cover classes in the
M S bands, although training data are not
alw ays available for the im age. A nd som etim es,
there is a requirem ent o f increasing the spatial
resolution o f the im age w itho ut concerning the
lan d cover classes in the im age scene. In these
cases, the algorithm can be im plem ented w ith
unsupervised soft-classified land cover
proportions such as fuzzy c-means classifier [18].
Supervised soft-classifiers could also be
<i>used, such as B ayesian, neural netw ork or k 'N N </i>
classifiers. H ow ever, the training data for these
soft-classification techniques should be
obtained from the unsupervised classifications.
In the research im plem ented by N guyen Q uang
M inh et al [17], a test for algorithm w as
im plem ented w ith a set o f degraded MS im age
and soft-classified land cover proportions w as
obtained using k-N N classification using a
fraining data set ex ừ acted from unsupervised
Interactive Self-O rganising D ata (ISO D A TA )
classifier. In this case, training data w ere
clustered in the reference image. In this
experim ent, a fuzzy c-m eans classification is
used to predict land cover proportions o f a real
SPO T im age to produce super-resolved specừ al
image o f different spatial resolutions to evaluate
the algorithm .
<i>2.2. F orw ard m odel a nd end-m em ber spectra</i>
A fter the first iteration o f the H N N
algorithm , once the sub-pixel classification is
obtained, a forw ard m odel is used to p ro duce a
sub-pixel M S im age from the sub-pixel land
cover classes. The brighừiess value (e.g.,
reflectance, radiance, digital num ber) o f a sub
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<i>w here Ve is the output neuron o f the class e and </i>
<i>Ss e </i>is th e end-m em ber spectra o f the land cover
cla ss <i>e for a spectral band s. A s presented in </i>
N guyen et al., 2006 [15], the end-m em ber
specfra vector Ss (Ss = [5^ o f the
<i>original pixel (x,y) o f the specừ al band A’ can be </i>
e s tim a te d lo c a lly u s in g th e p re d ic te d la n d c o v e r
class proportions and the M S im age at the
original coarse spatial resolution as
S ,= iP ^ W P )~ 'w P ^ R ,, (2)
<b>where p is a m aừix o f land cover proportions wiửi</b>
<i>r ^ x -\) { y - \)</i>
<b>p =</b> <i><sub>PT</sub></i> <sub>/ T</sub>
and w is the m atrix o f w eights w ith
<b>w =</b>
<b>3. E xp erim en t condition</b>
<b>5.7. </b><i>Data</i>
T he experim ent in N guyen Q uang M inh et
al [17] is conducted in an area having many
large objects w ith linear boundaries. It m ay lead
to a concern that th e algorithm proposed in this
p aper is able to w o rk w ell only w ith some
specific landscapes. Therefore, a second data
set is used for testin g the algorithm in a m ore
com plicated landscape. This im age was
obtained in B ac G iang Province, Vietnam.
T he SPO T 5 im age used in this test was
acquired in A ug ust 2011 w ith the spatial
resolution o f 10m and four spectral bands
(Figure 2). T he test im age is registered to
W G S-1984 U TM m ap projection in Zone 48N
and the location is at 21°17’53.65"N ,
1 0 6 °H 7 .6 4 " E . T he test im age covers 1 square
kilom etre area o f 102x102 pixels. To evaluate
the results o f increasing the spatial resolution
algorithm , a 2.5m spatial resolution
panchrom atic im age acquired at the sam e time
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_(c) „
<i>Figure 2. SPOT 5 image in Bac Giang Province, Viettiam: (a) Band 1, (b) Band 2, (c) Band 3 and (d) Band 4.</i>
<i>3.2. Soft-classification</i>
The land cover proportions are estim ated
from 10m spatial resolution SPO T 5 im age
using fuzzy c-m eans classifiers so it is not
necessary to have prior understanding about
land cover classes in the area. The soft-
classified land cover proportions o f five land
cover classes and six land cover classes are
obtained as in Figure 3c and Figure 3d,
respectively.
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<b>4. R esults and discussions</b>
<i>4.1. R esuits</i>
The m eth o d o f increasing the M S image
using H N N an d forw ard m odel w as applied to
super-resolve the 10m SPO T 5 M S im ages to
p red ict M S im age at spatial resolutions o f 5m
(zoom factor o f 2), 3.3m (zoom factor o f 3) and
2.5m (zoom factor o f 4). The predicted soft-
classified proportions w ere used to consừain
<i>the H N N w ith w eighting factors o f kị = 100, k: </i>
=1 0 0<i>, k i = </i>100 and 100 to predict the sub
pixel land cover and then the M S image. The
false colours com positions using B and 1, Band
2 and B and 4 as R ed, G reen and Blue are
show n in Figure 4.
(e) ^ _ (f)
Figure 4. Super-resolution o f 10m SPOT 5 multispectral image: (a) 5m super-resolved image using 5 land cover
classes, (b) 3.3m super-resolution image using 5 land cover classes, (c) 2.5m super-resolution image using 5 land
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<i>4.2. Evaluation</i>
In the case o f degraded image as in N guyen
Q uang Minh et al. [17], the dow nscaled
imagery was com pared with the reference
m ultispectral image at finer spatial resolution to
obtain visual and qualitative evaluations. In this
experim ent, the finer m ultispectral im agery is
not available for the full assessm ent. Therefore,
the predicted m ultispectral im age at finer
resolution can be only com pared w ith 2.5m
panchrom atic im age for a visual evaluation.
The visual com parison o f the super
resolved image from the real SPOT 5 data with
the panchrom atic im age (Figure 3b) also shows
an im provem ent in sharpness o f the results. The
objects in Figure 4(a-f) are sharpened and look
clearer that o f original im age ( r ig u r e 3a).
A lthough the landscape o f im age area is
com plicated w ith sm all and linear features such
as houses and roads, the im provem ent o f the
algorithm can be seen in the b ou ndaries o f
between the objects. Figure 5 show s the
im provem ent o f the algorithm for increasing the
spatial resolution o f M S im age using H N N with
a forw ard m odel to the original im age. The
boundaries o f ponds in the centre o f the original
M S image (Figure 5a) are blurred and
fragm ented because o f the m ixing o f the land
categories in these boundary pixels. In the
predicted M S im age using HNN and a forw ard
m odel (Figure 5b), these boundaries are clear
and look m ore sim ilar to the real ponds in
panchrom atic im age (Figure 5c).
(a) (b) (c)
Figure 5. Some land cover features in (a) original MS image (false colour composite), (b) increased resolution
MS image to 2.5m spatial resolution from 5 land cover class proportions (false colour composite)
and (c) panchromatic image.
F or sm all objects such as houses and roads,
there are few objects w hich is not clearly seen
in the original im age can be recognised in the
super-resolved image. In Figure 6a (com posite
image using Band 1, Band 2 and Band 4 o f the
original MS im age), the road is difficult to be
recognised because it is fragm ented due to the
m ixed pixels effect. U sing the H NN super
resolution m apping and then the forw ard m odel
as in Figure 6b (com posite im age u sing B and 1,
Band 2 and B and 4 o f the 2.5m spatial
resolution increased im age), it is possible to
recreate the road sim ilar to the shape o f the real
road shown in the panchrom atic im age Figure
6c.
For the sm all features such as a group o f
houses in Figure 6c, the perform ance o f the
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However, the new ly proposed algorithm still
show s some im provem ent in defining clear
boundaries o f these features. T his m ay be
because o f the soft-classifier cannot define the
houses as a separate class. T his problem m ay be
resolved by increasing the num ber o f classes for
fuzzy c-m eans classifier or using prior
inform ation on these classes in supervised soft-
classifiers.
Figure 6. Some land cover features such as roads and houses in (a) original image, (b) spatial resolution
increased image (false colour composite) and (c) panchrom atic image.
<i>4.3. D iscussions</i>
The effect o f zoom factor to spatial
resolution increasing algorithm can be seen in
Figure 8. . C om paring the im age created by
H N N using zoom factor o f 2 (Figure 4a), with
the image created w ith zoom factor o f 3 (Figure
4b) and 4 (Figure 4c), it is possible to see that
w hen the zoom factor increases, the boundaries
betw een the features are sm oother. The
boundaries betw een the ponds and the
surrounding features are fragm ented in Figure
8. a and F igure 8. b and look sm oother and
clearer in F igure 8. c.
(a) (b) (c)
Figure 8. Effect o f zoom factor to spatial resolution increasing algorithm: (a) zoom factor of 2, (b) zoom factor
o f 3 and (c) zoom factor o f 4.
In spite o f increasing the spatial resolution
o f the rem otely sensed M S im ages, the
proposed m ethod has a problem w ith pixels that
belong to the sam e class (referred to as pure
pixels in this paper). A lthough the problem can
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classes so there m ore m ixed pixels or dividing a
class into sub-classes so several pure pixels are
defined as m ixed pixels, there w ill still exist
pure pixels. The effect o f num ber o f land cover
classes can be seen in Figure 9.. The ponds in
Figure 9 .a apparently sm aller than those in
Figure 9.b due to som e “pure pixels” in the
boundaries w ere re-classified as m ixed pixels
w hen the num ber o f classes increased from 5 to
6. These m ixed pixels are then super-resolved
to produce different boundaries betw een the
same features in the tw o im ages.
Figure 9. (a) Result from HNN using 5 land cover classes, and (b) result from HNN using 6 land cover classes.
B ecause the H N N super-resolution m ethod
w orks only on m ixed pixels, w hich are usually
located across the border betw een different
classes, it is suggested that the m ethod is
suitable for the super-resolution o f im ages o f
large objects, for exam ple the agricultural
scenes. In these im ages, spatial variation is
hom ogeneous w ithin the land p arcels and
super-resolution based on the spatial clustering
goal functions o f the H N N can the agricultural
field boundaries or increasing the sharpness o f
linear features such as roads or canals.
As m entioned above, the use o f
unsupervised classification can reduce the
eư o rs in land cover class p roportion prediction.
Furtherm ore, the use o f unsupervised
classification facilitates the autom ation o f the
spatial resolution increasing process because
the class p roportions can b e obtained w ithout
fraining data and w ithout a fraining step.
Through the choice o f the num ber o f classes,
the user can control the effect o f the super
resolution algorithm on the resulting sub-pixel
M S im ages. W hen the num ber o f classes is
changed, the num ber o f m ixed pixels m ay be
changed as a result.
A draw back o f the H N N super-resolution
procedure is the subjective choice o f the
param eters for the goal functions, the
proportion co n sừ ain t and the m ulti-class
constraint [15]. B y em pirical investigation, the
values o f the param eters should retain an equal
effect betw een the con sừ ain ts and the goal
functions in the optim isation process. For
exam ple, the em pirical investigation in this
paper show s th at the values o f these param eters
in this paper w ere sim ilar and around the value
o f 100. T he finding is also obtained from the
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<b>5. C onclusions</b>
The approach for increasing the spatial
resolution M S im agery utilised the H N N super
resolution m apping technique com bined w ith a
forw ard m odel is tested w ith 10 SPO T 5
rem otely sensed data. In this research, the soft-
classified land cover proportions were
estim ated using a fuzzy c-m eans classifier. The
feasibility o f the m ethod w as evaluated based
on visual com parison o f the resulted im age w ith
panchrom atic im age acquired at the sam e tim e
w ith original image. T he com parison show ed
that the proposed m ethod can generate MS
im ages w ith m ore detail features. The super
resolved im age w as apparently sharper than the
original coarse spatial resolution im age. In
addition, the evaluation also dem onsừ ated that
w hen the zoom factor increased, the resulting
sub-pixel im ages w ere closer to the reference
image.
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