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However, the traditional classification methods do not make full use of the different features of aurora images, and the dimension of the description features is usually so high that it reduces the efficiency. In this paper, through combining multiple features extracted from aurora images, an aurora image classification method based on multi-feature latent Dirichlet allocation (AI-MFLDA) is proposed. Different types of features, whether local or global, discrete or continuous, can be integrated after being transformed to one-dimensional (1-D) histograms, and the dimension of the description features can be reduced due to using only a few topics to represent the aurora images. In the experiments, according to the classification system provided by the Polar Research Institute of China, a four-class aurora image dataset was tested and three types of features (MeanStd, scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT), and shape-based invariant texture index (SITI)) were utilized. 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