M-estimation for robust sparse unmixing of hyperspectral images

Maria Toomik; Shijian Lu; James D. B. Nelson

doi:10.1117/12.2241237

18 October 2016 M-estimation for robust sparse unmixing of hyperspectral images

Maria Toomik, Shijian Lu, James D. B. Nelson

Proceedings Volume 10004, Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing XXII; 100040V (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2241237
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Abstract

Hyperspectral unmixing methods often use a conventional least squares based lasso which assumes that the data follows the Gaussian distribution. The normality assumption is an approximation which is generally invalid for real imagery data. We consider a robust (non-Gaussian) approach to sparse spectral unmixing of remotely sensed imagery which reduces the sensitivity of the estimator to outliers and relaxes the linearity assumption. The method consists of several appropriate penalties. We propose to use an ℓ_p norm with 0 < p < 1 in the sparse regression problem, which induces more sparsity in the results, but makes the problem non-convex. On the other hand, the problem, though non-convex, can be solved quite straightforwardly with an extensible algorithm based on iteratively reweighted least squares. To deal with the huge size of modern spectral libraries we introduce a library reduction step, similar to the multiple signal classification (MUSIC) array processing algorithm, which not only speeds up unmixing but also yields superior results. In the hyperspectral setting we extend the traditional least squares method to the robust heavy-tailed case and propose a generalised M-lasso solution. M-estimation replaces the Gaussian likelihood with a fixed function ρ(e) that restrains outliers. The M-estimate function reduces the effect of errors with large amplitudes or even assigns the outliers zero weights. Our experimental results on real hyperspectral data show that noise with large amplitudes (outliers) often exists in the data. This ability to mitigate the influence of such outliers can therefore offer greater robustness. Qualitative hyperspectral unmixing results on real hyperspectral image data corroborate the efficacy of the proposed method.

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Maria Toomik, Shijian Lu, and James D. B. Nelson "M-estimation for robust sparse unmixing of hyperspectral images", Proc. SPIE 10004, Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing XXII, 100040V (18 October 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2241237

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