The Hughes phenomenon of Hyperspectral images (HSIs) with the hundreds of
continuous narrow bands makes the computational cost of HSIs process ing
high. Band selection is an effective way to solve such a problem and a lot
of band selection methods have been proposed in recent years. In this paper,
a novel hyper-graph regularized subspace clustering with skip connections
(HRSC-SC) is proposed for band selection of hyperspectral image, which is a
clustering-based band selection method. The networks combine subspace
clustering into the convolutional auto-encoder by thinking of it as a
self-expressive layer. To make full use of the historical feature maps
obtained from the networks and tackle the problem of gradient vanishing
caused by multiple nonlinear transformations, the symmetrical skip
connections are added to the networks to pass image details from encoder to
decoder. Furthermore, the hyper-graph regularization is presented to
consider the manifold structure reflecting geometric information within
data, which accurately describes the multivariate relationship between data
points and makes the results of clustering more accurate so that select the
most representative band subset. The proposed HRSC-SC band selection method
is compared with the existing robust band selection algorithms on Indian
Pines, Salinas-A, and Pavia University HSIs, showing that the results of
the proposed method outperform the current state-of-the-art band selection
methods. Especially, the overall accuracy of the clustering is the best on
three real HSIs compared to other methods when the band selection number is
25, reaching 82.62%, 92.48%, and 96,5% respectively.