Active Learning with SVM for Land Cover Classification - What Can Go Wrong?

Training machine learning algorithms for land cover classification is labour intensive. Applying active learning strategies tries to alleviate this, but can lead to unexpected results. We demonstrate what can go wrong when uncertainty sampling with an SVM is applied to real world remote sensing data. Possible causes and solutions are suggested.

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