TY - JOUR
T1 - An Outlier-Insensitive Unmixing Algorithm with Spatially Varying Hyperspectral Signatures
AU - Syu, Yao Rong
AU - Lin, Chia Hsiang
AU - Chi, Chong Yung
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan, under Grant MOST104-2221-E-007-069-MY3, and in part by the Young Scholar Fellowship Program (Einstein Program), MOST, Taiwan, under Grant MOST107-2636-E-008-003.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Effective hyperspectral unmixing (HU) is essential to the estimation of the underlying materials' signatures (endmember signatures) and their spatial distributions (abundance maps) from a given image (data) of a hyperspectral scene. Recently, investigating HU under the non-negligible endmember variability (EV) and outlier effects (OE) has drawn extensive attention. Some state-of-the-art works either consider EV or consider OE, but none of them considers both EV and OE simultaneously. In this paper, we propose a novel HU algorithm, referred to as the variability/outlier-insensitive multi-convex unmixing (VOIMU) algorithm, which is robust against both EV and OE. Considering two suitable regularizers, a nonconvex minimization problem is formulated for which the perturbed linear mixing model proposed by Thouvenin et al., is used for modeling EV, while OE is implicitly handled by applying a p quasi-norm to the data fitting with 0 < p < 1. Then, we reformulate it into a multi-convex problem which is then solved by the block coordinate descent method, with convergence guarantee by casting it into the block successive upper bound minimization framework. The proposed VOIMU algorithm can yield a stationary-point solution with convergence guarantee, together with some intriguing information of potential outlier pixels though outliers are neither physically modeled in the above problem nor detected in the algorithm operation. Finally, we provide some simulation results and experimental results using real data to demonstrate the efficacy and practical applicability of the proposed VOIMU algorithm.
AB - Effective hyperspectral unmixing (HU) is essential to the estimation of the underlying materials' signatures (endmember signatures) and their spatial distributions (abundance maps) from a given image (data) of a hyperspectral scene. Recently, investigating HU under the non-negligible endmember variability (EV) and outlier effects (OE) has drawn extensive attention. Some state-of-the-art works either consider EV or consider OE, but none of them considers both EV and OE simultaneously. In this paper, we propose a novel HU algorithm, referred to as the variability/outlier-insensitive multi-convex unmixing (VOIMU) algorithm, which is robust against both EV and OE. Considering two suitable regularizers, a nonconvex minimization problem is formulated for which the perturbed linear mixing model proposed by Thouvenin et al., is used for modeling EV, while OE is implicitly handled by applying a p quasi-norm to the data fitting with 0 < p < 1. Then, we reformulate it into a multi-convex problem which is then solved by the block coordinate descent method, with convergence guarantee by casting it into the block successive upper bound minimization framework. The proposed VOIMU algorithm can yield a stationary-point solution with convergence guarantee, together with some intriguing information of potential outlier pixels though outliers are neither physically modeled in the above problem nor detected in the algorithm operation. Finally, we provide some simulation results and experimental results using real data to demonstrate the efficacy and practical applicability of the proposed VOIMU algorithm.
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U2 - 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2890278
DO - 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2890278
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85061785051
VL - 7
SP - 15086
EP - 15101
JO - IEEE Access
JF - IEEE Access
SN - 2169-3536
M1 - 8600733
ER -