Abstract:Traditional sparse representation based classifiers ignore interconnections among pixels and have high computational complexity when applied in hyperspectral imagery (HSI) field. Therefore, a multiple measurement vectors based sparse representation classifier (MMVSRC) model is proposed to solve the above problems. The model introduces a balance parameter to control the sparsity of coefficient vectors, and estimates sparse coefficient vectors of all testing pixels by minimizing reconstruction errors using the L2norm constraint. Experiments on two HSI datasets are implemented to test the performance of MMVSRC, and the results are compared with those of five stateoftheart classifiers. The results show that MMVSRC achieves best classification accuracies among all whereas taking the second shortest computational time.