Exploration of methods for estimation of number of endmembers in hyperspectral imagery

Chao-Cheng Wu; Weimin Liu; Chein-I Chang

doi:10.1117/12.684912

25 October 2006 Exploration of methods for estimation of number of endmembers in hyperspectral imagery

Chao-Cheng Wu, Weimin Liu, Chein-I Chang

Proceedings Volume 6378, Chemical and Biological Sensors for Industrial and Environmental Monitoring II; 63781C (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.684912
Event: Optics East 2006, 2006, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Abstract

An endmember is an idealized, pure signature for a class and provides crucial information for hyperspectral image analysis. Recently, endmember extraction has received considerable attention in hyperspectral imaging due to significantly improved spectral resolution where the likelihood of a hyperspectral image pixel uncovered by a hyperspectral image sensor as an endmember is substantially increased. Many algorithms have been proposed for this purpose. One great challenge in endmember extraction is the determination of number of endmembers, p required for an endmember extraction algorithm (EEA) to generate. Unfortunately, this issue has been overlooked and avoided by making an empirical assumption without justification. However, it has been shown that an appropriate selection of p is critical to success in extracting desired endmembers from image data. This paper explores methods available in the literature that can be used to estimate the value, p. These include the commonly used eigenvalue-based energy method, An Information criterion (AIC), Minimum Description Length (MDL), Gershgorin radii-based method, Signal Subspace Estimation (SSE) and Neyman-Pearson detection method in detection theory. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of these methods, two sets of experiments are conducted for performance analysis. The first set consists of synthetic imagebased simulations which allow us to evaluate their performance with a priori knowledge, while the second set comprising of real hyperspectral image experiments which demonstrate utility of these methods in real applications.

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Chao-Cheng Wu, Weimin Liu, and Chein-I Chang "Exploration of methods for estimation of number of endmembers in hyperspectral imagery", Proc. SPIE 6378, Chemical and Biological Sensors for Industrial and Environmental Monitoring II, 63781C (25 October 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.684912

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