Building robust neighborhoods for manifold learning-based image classification and anomaly detection

We exploit manifold learning algorithms to perform image classification and anomaly detection in complex scenes involving hyperspectral land cover and broadband IR maritime data. The results of standard manifold learning techniques are improved by including spatial information. This is accomplished by creating super-pixels which are robust to affine transformations inherent in natural scenes. We utilize techniques from harmonic analysis and image processing, namely, rotation, skew, flip, and shift operators to develop a more representational graph structure which defines the data-dependent manifold.