A novel highly-parallel algorithm for linearly unmixing hyperspectral images

Raúl Guerra; Sebastián López; Gustavo M. Callico; Jose F. López; Roberto Sarmiento

doi:10.1117/12.2068332

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15 October 2014 A novel highly parallel algorithm for linearly unmixing hyperspectral images

Raúl Guerra, Sebastián López, Gustavo M. Callico, Jose F. López, Roberto Sarmiento

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Proceedings Volume 9247, High-Performance Computing in Remote Sensing IV; 92470H (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2068332
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2014, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

Endmember extraction and abundances calculation represent critical steps within the process of linearly unmixing a given hyperspectral image because of two main reasons. The first one is due to the need of computing a set of accurate endmembers in order to further obtain confident abundance maps. The second one refers to the huge amount of operations involved in these time-consuming processes. This work proposes an algorithm to estimate the endmembers of a hyperspectral image under analysis and its abundances at the same time. The main advantage of this algorithm is its high parallelization degree and the mathematical simplicity of the operations implemented. This algorithm estimates the endmembers as virtual pixels. In particular, the proposed algorithm performs the descent gradient method to iteratively refine the endmembers and the abundances, reducing the mean square error, according with the linear unmixing model. Some mathematical restrictions must be added so the method converges in a unique and realistic solution. According with the algorithm nature, these restrictions can be easily implemented. The results obtained with synthetic images demonstrate the well behavior of the algorithm proposed. Moreover, the results obtained with the well-known Cuprite dataset also corroborate the benefits of our proposal.

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Raúl Guerra, Sebastián López, Gustavo M. Callico, Jose F. López, and Roberto Sarmiento "A novel highly parallel algorithm for linearly unmixing hyperspectral images", Proc. SPIE 9247, High-Performance Computing in Remote Sensing IV, 92470H (15 October 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2068332

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