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6 September 2019 Paired neural networks for hyperspectral target detection
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Abstract
Spectral matched filtering and its variants (e.g. Adaptive Coherence Estimator or ACE) rely on strong assumptions about target and background distributions. For instance, ACE assumes a Gaussian distribution of background and additive target model. In practice, natural spectral variation, due to effects such as material Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function, non-linear mixing with surrounding materials, or material impurities, degrade the performance of matched filter techniques and require an ever-increasing library of target templates measured under different conditions. In this work, we employ the contrastive loss function and paired neural networks to create data-driven target detectors that do not rely on strong assumptions about target and background distribution. Furthermore, by matching spectra to templates in a highly nonlinear fashion via neural networks, our target detectors exhibit improved performance and greater resiliency to natural spectral variation; this performance improvement comes with no increase in target template library size. We evaluate and compare our paired neural network detector to matched filter-based target detectors on a synthetic hyperspectral scene and the well-known Indian Pines AVIRIS hyperspectral image.
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Dylan Z. Anderson, Joshua D. Zollweg, and Braden J. Smith "Paired neural networks for hyperspectral target detection", Proc. SPIE 11139, Applications of Machine Learning, 111390J (6 September 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2531310
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KEYWORDS
Hyperspectral target detection

Neural networks

Target detection

Sensors

Nonlinear filtering

Optical filters

Bidirectional reflectance transmission function

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