Tag: endmember

Congratulations to our labmates Ron Fick and Susan Meerdink for being accepted to the 2019 IEEE WHISPERS conference in Amsterdam! The WHISPERS  conference is an annual workshop focusing on advances in remote sensing with hyperspectral data.  Ron will present on his paper titled “Temporal mapping of Hyperspectral Data”. Susan will present a poster of her […]

Abstract: Traditional methods of developing spectral libraries for unmixing hyperspectral images tend to require domain knowledge of the study area and the material’s spectra. In this paper, we propose using the Multiple Target Multiple Instance Adaptive Cosine/Coherence Estimator (Multi-Target MI-ACE) algorithm to develop spectral libraries that will capture the same spectral variability as traditional methods […]

Abstract: The increasing popularity of hyperspectral sensors is dramatically increasing the temporal availability of data. To date, algorithms struggle to compare hyperspectral data collected across dates due to different environmental conditions during collection. In this work, we develop a temporal mapping in order to map data collected from one year to a different year. We […]

Abstract: The multiple instance learning problem addresses the case where training data comes with label ambiguity, i.e., the learner has access only to inaccurately labeled data. For example, in target detection from remotely sensed hyperspectral imagery, targets are usually sub-pixel and the ground truthing of the targets according to GPS coordinates could drift across several […]

Abstract: The Multiple Instance Hybrid Estimator for discriminative target characterization from imprecisely labeled hyperspectral data is presented. In many hyperspectral target detection problems, acquiring accurately labeled training data is difficult. Furthermore, each pixel containing target is likely to be a mixture of both target and non-target signatures (i.e. sub-pixel targets), making extracting a pure prototype […]

Abstract: A semi-supervised Partial Membership Latent Dirichlet Allocation approach is developed for hyperspectral unmixing and endmember estimation while accounting for spectral variability and spatial information. Partial Membership Latent Dirichlet Allocation is an effective approach for spectral unmixing while representing spectral variability and leveraging spatial information. In this work, we extend Partial Membership Latent Dirichlet Allocation […]

We are excited to announce that we have released a classification label map for the MUUFL Gulfport co-registered hyperspectral and Lidar Campus 1 image . The MUUFL Gulfport data set was collected in November 2010 over the campus of the University of Southern Mississippi-Gulfpark, located in Long Beach, Mississippi. The data contains co-registered hyperspectral and […]

Abstract: A map-guided superpixel segmentation method for hyperspectral imagery is developed and introduced. The proposed approach develops a hyperspectral-appropriate version of the SLIC superpixel segmentation algorithm, leverages map information to guide segmentation, and incorporates the semi-supervised Partial Membership Latent Dirichlet Allocation (sPM-LDA) to obtain a final superpixel segmentation. The proposed method is applied to two […]

Abstract: Signature-based detectors for hyperspectral target detection rely on knowing the specific target signature in advance. However, target signature are often difficult or impossible to obtain. Furthermore, common methods for obtaining target signatures, such as from laboratory measurements or manual selection from an image scene, usually do not capture the discriminative features of target class. […]

Abstract: The application of Partial Membership Latent Dirichlet Allocation (PM-LDA) for hyperspectral endmember estimation and spectral unmixing is presented. PM-LDA provides a model for a hyperspectral image analysis that accounts for spectral variability and incorporates spatial information through the use of superpixel-based ”documents”. In our application of PM-LDA, we employ the Normal Compositional Model in […]