Improved Binary Partition Tree construction for hyperspectral images: Application to object detection

This paper discusses hierarchical region-based representation using Binary Partition Tree in the framework of hyperspectral data. Based on region merging techniques, this region-based representation reduces the number of elementary primitives compared to the pixel based representation and allows a more robust filtering, segmentation, classification or information retrieval. The work presented here proposes a strategy for merging hyperspectral regions using a new association measure depending on canonical correlations relating principal coordinates. To demonstrate an example of BPT usefulness, a pruning strategy aiming at object detection is discussed. Experimental results demonstrate the good performances of BPT.