HyperNTF: A Hypergraph Regularized Nonnegative Tensor Factorization for Dimensionality Reduction

Most methods for dimensionality reduction are based on either tensor representation or local geometry learning. However, the tensor-based methods severely rely on the assumption of global and multilinear structures in high-dimensional data; and the manifold learning methods suffer from the out-of-sample problem. In this paper, bridging the tensor decomposition and manifold learning, we propose a novel method, called Hypergraph Regularized Nonnegative Tensor Factorization (HyperNTF). HyperNTF can preserve nonnegativity in tensor factorization, and uncover the higher-order relationship among the nearest neighborhoods. Clustering analysis with HyperNTF has low computation and storage costs. The experiments on four synthetic data show a desirable property of hypergraph in uncovering the high-order correlation to unfold the curved manifolds. Moreover, the numerical experiments on six real datasets suggest that HyperNTF robustly outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms in clustering analysis.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figures, 9 table

Interpretable Hyperspectral AI: When Non-Convex Modeling meets Hyperspectral Remote Sensing

Hyperspectral imaging, also known as image spectrometry, is a landmark technique in geoscience and remote sensing (RS). In the past decade, enormous efforts have been made to process and analyze these hyperspectral (HS) products mainly by means of seasoned experts. However, with the ever-growing volume of data, the bulk of costs in manpower and material resources poses new challenges on reducing the burden of manual labor and improving efficiency. For this reason, it is, therefore, urgent to develop more intelligent and automatic approaches for various HS RS applications. Machine learning (ML) tools with convex optimization have successfully undertaken the tasks of numerous artificial intelligence (AI)-related applications. However, their ability in handling complex practical problems remains limited, particularly for HS data, due to the effects of various spectral variabilities in the process of HS imaging and the complexity and redundancy of higher dimensional HS signals. Compared to the convex models, non-convex modeling, which is capable of characterizing more complex real scenes and providing the model interpretability technically and theoretically, has been proven to be a feasible solution to reduce the gap between challenging HS vision tasks and currently advanced intelligent data processing models