Hyperspectral anomaly detection based on low-rank representation with data-driven projection and dictionary construction

Abstract

Hyperspectral image anomaly detection is an increasingly important research topic in remote sensing images understanding and interpretation. Recently, low-rank representation-based methods have attracted extensive attention and achieved promising performances in hyperspectral anomaly detection. These methods assume that the hyperspectral data can be decomposed into two parts: the low-rank component representing the background and the residual part indicating the anomaly. In order to improve the separability of the background and anomaly, we propose a novel hyperspectral anomaly detection based on low-rank representation with dictionary construction and data-driven projection. To construct a robust dictionary that contains all categories of the background objects whilst excluding the anomaly's influence, we adopt a superpixel-based tensor low-rank decomposition method to generate a comprehensive and pure background dictionary. Considering the spectral redundancy in the hyperspectral data, data-driven projection is introduced to the low-rank representation to project the original data to a low-dimensional feature space to better separate the anomaly and the background. Experimental results on four real hyperspectral datasets show that the proposed anomaly detection method outperforms the other anomaly detectors.