Comparison of Maximum Likelihood Classification Before and After Applying Weierstrass Transform

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Autores principales: Shoaib, Muhammad, Rehman, Zaka Ur, Qasim, Muhammad
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author Shoaib, Muhammad
Rehman, Zaka Ur
Qasim, Muhammad
author_facet Shoaib, Muhammad
Rehman, Zaka Ur
Qasim, Muhammad
contents The aim of this paper is to use Maximum Likelihood (ML) Classification on multispectral data by means of qualitative and quantitative approaches. Maximum Likelihood is a supervised classification algorithm which is based on the Classical Bayes theorem. It makes use of a discriminant function to assign pixel to the class with the highest likelihood. Class means vector and covariance matrix are the key inputs to the function and can be estimated from training pixels of a particular class. As Maximum Likelihood need some assumptions before it has to be applied on the data. In this paper we will compare the results of Maximum Likelihood Classification (ML) before apply the Weierstrass Transform and apply Weierstrass Transform and will see the difference between the accuracy on training pixels of high resolution Quickbird satellite image. Principle Component analysis (PCA) is also used for dimension reduction and also used to check the variation in bands. The results shows that the separation between mean of the classes in the decision space is to be the main factor that leads to the high classification accuracy of Maximum Likelihood (ML) after using Weierstrass Transform than without using it.
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spellingShingle Comparison of Maximum Likelihood Classification Before and After Applying Weierstrass Transform
Shoaib, Muhammad
Rehman, Zaka Ur
Qasim, Muhammad
Applications
Machine Learning
Probability
The aim of this paper is to use Maximum Likelihood (ML) Classification on multispectral data by means of qualitative and quantitative approaches. Maximum Likelihood is a supervised classification algorithm which is based on the Classical Bayes theorem. It makes use of a discriminant function to assign pixel to the class with the highest likelihood. Class means vector and covariance matrix are the key inputs to the function and can be estimated from training pixels of a particular class. As Maximum Likelihood need some assumptions before it has to be applied on the data. In this paper we will compare the results of Maximum Likelihood Classification (ML) before apply the Weierstrass Transform and apply Weierstrass Transform and will see the difference between the accuracy on training pixels of high resolution Quickbird satellite image. Principle Component analysis (PCA) is also used for dimension reduction and also used to check the variation in bands. The results shows that the separation between mean of the classes in the decision space is to be the main factor that leads to the high classification accuracy of Maximum Likelihood (ML) after using Weierstrass Transform than without using it.
title Comparison of Maximum Likelihood Classification Before and After Applying Weierstrass Transform
topic Applications
Machine Learning
Probability
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.04808