64 research outputs found
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
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
Column-Spatial Correction Network for Remote Sensing Image Destriping
The stripe noise in the multispectral remote sensing images, possibly resulting from the instrument instability, slit contamination, and light interference, significantly degrades the imaging quality and impairs high-level visual tasks. The local consistency of homogeneous region in striped images is damaged because of the different gains and offsets of adjacent sensors regarding the same ground object, which leads to the structural characteristics of stripe noise. This can be characterized by the increased differences between columns in the remote sensing image. Therefore, the destriping can be viewed as a process of improving the local consistency of homogeneous region and the global uniformity of whole image. In recent years, convolutional neural network (CNN)-based models have been introduced to destriping tasks, and have achieved advanced results, relying on their powerful representation ability. Therefore, to effectively leverage both CNNs and the structural characteristics of stripe noise, we propose a multi-scaled column-spatial correction network (CSCNet) for remote sensing image destriping, in which the local structural characteristic of stripe noise and the global contextual information of the image are both explored at multiple feature scales. More specifically, the column-based correction module (CCM) and spatial-based correction module (SCM) were designed to improve the local consistency and global uniformity from the perspectives of column correction and full image correction, respectively. Moreover, a feature fusion module based on the channel attention mechanism was created to obtain discriminative features derived from different modules and scales. We compared the proposed model against both traditional and deep learning methods on simulated and real remote sensing images. The promising results indicate that CSCNet effectively removes image stripes and outperforms state-of-the-art methods in terms of qualitative and quantitative assessments
Hyperspectral Image Denoising With Group Sparse and Low-Rank Tensor Decomposition
Hyperspectral image (HSI) is usually corrupted by various types of noise, including Gaussian
noise, impulse noise, stripes, deadlines, and so on. Recently, sparse and low-rank matrix decomposition
(SLRMD) has demonstrated to be an effective tool in HSI denoising. However, the matrix-based SLRMD
technique cannot fully take the advantage of spatial and spectral information in a 3-D HSI data. In this paper,
a novel group sparse and low-rank tensor decomposition (GSLRTD) method is proposed to remove different
kinds of noise in HSI, while still well preserving spectral and spatial characteristics. Since a clean 3-D HSI
data can be regarded as a 3-D tensor, the proposed GSLRTD method formulates a HSI recovery problem
into a sparse and low-rank tensor decomposition framework. Specifically, the HSI is first divided into a set
of overlapping 3-D tensor cubes, which are then clustered into groups by K-means algorithm. Then, each
group contains similar tensor cubes, which can be constructed as a new tensor by unfolding these similar
tensors into a set of matrices and stacking them. Finally, the SLRTD model is introduced to generate noisefree
estimation for each group tensor. By aggregating all reconstructed group tensors, we can reconstruct a
denoised HSI. Experiments on both simulated and real HSI data sets demonstrate the effectiveness of the
proposed method.This paper was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61301255, Grant 61771192, and
Grant 61471167, in part by the National Natural Science Fund of China for Distinguished Young Scholars under Grant 61325007, in part
by the National Natural Science Fund of China for International Cooperation and Exchanges under Grant 61520106001, and in part by the
Science and Technology Plan Project Fund of Hunan Province under Grant 2015WK3001 and Grant 2017RS3024.Peer Reviewe
H2TF for Hyperspectral Image Denoising: Where Hierarchical Nonlinear Transform Meets Hierarchical Matrix Factorization
Recently, tensor singular value decomposition (t-SVD) has emerged as a
promising tool for hyperspectral image (HSI) processing. In the t-SVD, there
are two key building blocks: (i) the low-rank enhanced transform and (ii) the
accompanying low-rank characterization of transformed frontal slices. Previous
t-SVD methods mainly focus on the developments of (i), while neglecting the
other important aspect, i.e., the exact characterization of transformed frontal
slices. In this letter, we exploit the potentiality in both building blocks by
leveraging the \underline{\bf H}ierarchical nonlinear transform and the
\underline{\bf H}ierarchical matrix factorization to establish a new
\underline{\bf T}ensor \underline{\bf F}actorization (termed as H2TF). Compared
to shallow counter partners, e.g., low-rank matrix factorization or its convex
surrogates, H2TF can better capture complex structures of transformed frontal
slices due to its hierarchical modeling abilities. We then suggest the
H2TF-based HSI denoising model and develop an alternating direction method of
multipliers-based algorithm to address the resultant model. Extensive
experiments validate the superiority of our method over state-of-the-art HSI
denoising methods
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
Multi-scale Adaptive Fusion Network for Hyperspectral Image Denoising
Removing the noise and improving the visual quality of hyperspectral images
(HSIs) is challenging in academia and industry. Great efforts have been made to
leverage local, global or spectral context information for HSI denoising.
However, existing methods still have limitations in feature interaction
exploitation among multiple scales and rich spectral structure preservation. In
view of this, we propose a novel solution to investigate the HSI denoising
using a Multi-scale Adaptive Fusion Network (MAFNet), which can learn the
complex nonlinear mapping between clean and noisy HSI. Two key components
contribute to improving the hyperspectral image denoising: A progressively
multiscale information aggregation network and a co-attention fusion module.
Specifically, we first generate a set of multiscale images and feed them into a
coarse-fusion network to exploit the contextual texture correlation.
Thereafter, a fine fusion network is followed to exchange the information
across the parallel multiscale subnetworks. Furthermore, we design a
co-attention fusion module to adaptively emphasize informative features from
different scales, and thereby enhance the discriminative learning capability
for denoising. Extensive experiments on synthetic and real HSI datasets
demonstrate that the proposed MAFNet has achieved better denoising performance
than other state-of-the-art techniques. Our codes are available at
\verb'https://github.com/summitgao/MAFNet'.Comment: IEEE JSTASRS 2023, code at: https://github.com/summitgao/MAFNe
Non-local tensor completion for multitemporal remotely sensed images inpainting
Remotely sensed images may contain some missing areas because of poor weather
conditions and sensor failure. Information of those areas may play an important
role in the interpretation of multitemporal remotely sensed data. The paper
aims at reconstructing the missing information by a non-local low-rank tensor
completion method (NL-LRTC). First, nonlocal correlations in the spatial domain
are taken into account by searching and grouping similar image patches in a
large search window. Then low-rankness of the identified 4-order tensor groups
is promoted to consider their correlations in spatial, spectral, and temporal
domains, while reconstructing the underlying patterns. Experimental results on
simulated and real data demonstrate that the proposed method is effective both
qualitatively and quantitatively. In addition, the proposed method is
computationally efficient compared to other patch based methods such as the
recent proposed PM-MTGSR method
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