Hyperspectral Anomaly Detection Based on Low-Rank Representation and Learned Dictionary

• Main Authors: Yubin Niu, Bin Wang
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2016-03-01
• Series: Remote Sensing
• Subjects: hyperspectral imagery; anomaly detection; low-rank matrix decomposition; learned dictionary; robust PCA; low-rank representation
• Online Access: http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/8/4/289

In this paper, a novel hyperspectral anomaly detector based on low-rank representation (LRR) and learned dictionary (LD) has been proposed. This method assumes that a two-dimensional matrix transformed from a three-dimensional hyperspectral imagery can be decomposed into two parts: a low rank matrix representing the background and a sparse matrix standing for the anomalies. The direct application of LRR model is sensitive to a tradeoff parameter that balances the two parts. To mitigate this problem, a learned dictionary is introduced into the decomposition process. The dictionary is learned from the whole image with a random selection process and therefore can be viewed as the spectra of the background only. It also requires a less computational cost with the learned dictionary. The statistic characteristic of the sparse matrix allows the application of basic anomaly detection method to obtain detection results. Experimental results demonstrate that, compared to other anomaly detection methods, the proposed method based on LRR and LD shows its robustness and has a satisfactory anomaly detection result.