13 research outputs found
Denoising of Hyperspectral Images Using Group Low-Rank Representation
Hyperspectral images (HSIs) have been used in a
wide range of fields, such as agriculture, food safety, mineralogy
and environment monitoring, but being corrupted by various
kinds of noise limits its efficacy. Low-rank representation (LRR)
has proved its effectiveness in the denoising of HSIs. However,
it just employs local information for denoising, which results
in ineffectiveness when local noise is heavy. In this paper, we
propose an approach of group low-rank representation (GLRR)
for the HSI denoising. In our GLRR, a corrupted HSI is divided
into overlapping patches, the similar patches are combined into
a group, and the group is reconstructed as a whole using LRR.
The proposed method enables the exploitation of both the local
similarity within a patch and the nonlocal similarity across the
patches in a group simultaneously. The additional nonlocallysimilar
patches can bring in extra structural information to the
corrupted patches, facilitating the detection of noise as outliers.
LRR is applied to the group of patches, as the uncorrupted
patches enjoy intrinsic low-rank structure. The effectiveness of
the proposed GLRR method is demonstrated qualitatively and
quantitatively by using both simulated and real-world data in
experiments
Hyperspectral Image Restoration via Total Variation Regularized Low-rank Tensor Decomposition
Hyperspectral images (HSIs) are often corrupted by a mixture of several types
of noise during the acquisition process, e.g., Gaussian noise, impulse noise,
dead lines, stripes, and many others. Such complex noise could degrade the
quality of the acquired HSIs, limiting the precision of the subsequent
processing. In this paper, we present a novel tensor-based HSI restoration
approach by fully identifying the intrinsic structures of the clean HSI part
and the mixed noise part respectively. Specifically, for the clean HSI part, we
use tensor Tucker decomposition to describe the global correlation among all
bands, and an anisotropic spatial-spectral total variation (SSTV)
regularization to characterize the piecewise smooth structure in both spatial
and spectral domains. For the mixed noise part, we adopt the norm
regularization to detect the sparse noise, including stripes, impulse noise,
and dead pixels. Despite that TV regulariztion has the ability of removing
Gaussian noise, the Frobenius norm term is further used to model heavy Gaussian
noise for some real-world scenarios. Then, we develop an efficient algorithm
for solving the resulting optimization problem by using the augmented Lagrange
multiplier (ALM) method. Finally, extensive experiments on simulated and
real-world noise HSIs are carried out to demonstrate the superiority of the
proposed method over the existing state-of-the-art ones.Comment: 15 pages, 20 figure
Uncertainty Quantification for Hyperspectral Image Denoising Frameworks based on Low-rank Matrix Approximation
Sliding-window based low-rank matrix approximation (LRMA) is a technique
widely used in hyperspectral images (HSIs) denoising or completion. However,
the uncertainty quantification of the restored HSI has not been addressed to
date. Accurate uncertainty quantification of the denoised HSI facilitates to
applications such as multi-source or multi-scale data fusion, data
assimilation, and product uncertainty quantification, since these applications
require an accurate approach to describe the statistical distributions of the
input data. Therefore, we propose a prior-free closed-form element-wise
uncertainty quantification method for LRMA-based HSI restoration. Our
closed-form algorithm overcomes the difficulty of the HSI patch mixing problem
caused by the sliding-window strategy used in the conventional LRMA process.
The proposed approach only requires the uncertainty of the observed HSI and
provides the uncertainty result relatively rapidly and with similar
computational complexity as the LRMA technique. We conduct extensive
experiments to validate the estimation accuracy of the proposed closed-form
uncertainty approach. The method is robust to at least 10% random impulse noise
at the cost of 10-20% of additional processing time compared to the LRMA. The
experiments indicate that the proposed closed-form uncertainty quantification
method is more applicable to real-world applications than the baseline Monte
Carlo test, which is computationally expensive. The code is available in the
attachment and will be released after the acceptance of this paper.Comment: Accepted for publication by IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and
Remote Sensing. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS
Image Restoration for Remote Sensing: Overview and Toolbox
Remote sensing provides valuable information about objects or areas from a
distance in either active (e.g., RADAR and LiDAR) or passive (e.g.,
multispectral and hyperspectral) modes. The quality of data acquired by
remotely sensed imaging sensors (both active and passive) is often degraded by
a variety of noise types and artifacts. Image restoration, which is a vibrant
field of research in the remote sensing community, is the task of recovering
the true unknown image from the degraded observed image. Each imaging sensor
induces unique noise types and artifacts into the observed image. This fact has
led to the expansion of restoration techniques in different paths according to
each sensor type. This review paper brings together the advances of image
restoration techniques with particular focuses on synthetic aperture radar and
hyperspectral images as the most active sub-fields of image restoration in the
remote sensing community. We, therefore, provide a comprehensive,
discipline-specific starting point for researchers at different levels (i.e.,
students, researchers, and senior researchers) willing to investigate the
vibrant topic of data restoration by supplying sufficient detail and
references. Additionally, this review paper accompanies a toolbox to provide a
platform to encourage interested students and researchers in the field to
further explore the restoration techniques and fast-forward the community. The
toolboxes are provided in https://github.com/ImageRestorationToolbox.Comment: This paper is under review in GRS
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