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Hyperspectral Unmixing Overview: Geometrical, Statistical, and Sparse Regression-Based Approaches
Imaging spectrometers measure electromagnetic energy scattered in their
instantaneous field view in hundreds or thousands of spectral channels with
higher spectral resolution than multispectral cameras. Imaging spectrometers
are therefore often referred to as hyperspectral cameras (HSCs). Higher
spectral resolution enables material identification via spectroscopic analysis,
which facilitates countless applications that require identifying materials in
scenarios unsuitable for classical spectroscopic analysis. Due to low spatial
resolution of HSCs, microscopic material mixing, and multiple scattering,
spectra measured by HSCs are mixtures of spectra of materials in a scene. Thus,
accurate estimation requires unmixing. Pixels are assumed to be mixtures of a
few materials, called endmembers. Unmixing involves estimating all or some of:
the number of endmembers, their spectral signatures, and their abundances at
each pixel. Unmixing is a challenging, ill-posed inverse problem because of
model inaccuracies, observation noise, environmental conditions, endmember
variability, and data set size. Researchers have devised and investigated many
models searching for robust, stable, tractable, and accurate unmixing
algorithms. This paper presents an overview of unmixing methods from the time
of Keshava and Mustard's unmixing tutorial [1] to the present. Mixing models
are first discussed. Signal-subspace, geometrical, statistical, sparsity-based,
and spatial-contextual unmixing algorithms are described. Mathematical problems
and potential solutions are described. Algorithm characteristics are
illustrated experimentally.Comment: This work has been accepted for publication in IEEE Journal of
Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensin
Dynamic Estimation of Rigid Motion from Perspective Views via Recursive Identification of Exterior Differential Systems with Parameters on a Topological Manifold
We formulate the problem of estimating the motion of a rigid object viewed under perspective projection as the identification of a dynamic model in Exterior Differential form with parameters on a topological manifold.
We first describe a general method for recursive identification of nonlinear implicit systems using prediction error criteria. The parameters are allowed to move slowly on some topological (not necessarily smooth) manifold. The basic recursion is solved in two different ways: one is based on a simple extension of the traditional Kalman Filter to nonlinear and implicit measurement constraints, the other may be regarded as a generalized "Gauss-Newton" iteration, akin to traditional Recursive Prediction Error Method techniques in linear identification. A derivation of the "Implicit Extended Kalman Filter" (IEKF) is reported in the appendix.
The ID framework is then applied to solving the visual motion problem: it indeed is possible to characterize it in terms of identification of an Exterior Differential System with parameters living on a C0 topological manifold, called the "essential manifold". We consider two alternative estimation paradigms. The first is in the local coordinates of the essential manifold: we estimate the state of a nonlinear implicit model on a linear space. The second is obtained by a linear update on the (linear) embedding space followed by a projection onto the essential manifold. These schemes proved successful in performing the motion estimation task, as we show in experiments on real and noisy synthetic image sequences
Hierarchical Bayesian sparse image reconstruction with application to MRFM
This paper presents a hierarchical Bayesian model to reconstruct sparse
images when the observations are obtained from linear transformations and
corrupted by an additive white Gaussian noise. Our hierarchical Bayes model is
well suited to such naturally sparse image applications as it seamlessly
accounts for properties such as sparsity and positivity of the image via
appropriate Bayes priors. We propose a prior that is based on a weighted
mixture of a positive exponential distribution and a mass at zero. The prior
has hyperparameters that are tuned automatically by marginalization over the
hierarchical Bayesian model. To overcome the complexity of the posterior
distribution, a Gibbs sampling strategy is proposed. The Gibbs samples can be
used to estimate the image to be recovered, e.g. by maximizing the estimated
posterior distribution. In our fully Bayesian approach the posteriors of all
the parameters are available. Thus our algorithm provides more information than
other previously proposed sparse reconstruction methods that only give a point
estimate. The performance of our hierarchical Bayesian sparse reconstruction
method is illustrated on synthetic and real data collected from a tobacco virus
sample using a prototype MRFM instrument.Comment: v2: final version; IEEE Trans. Image Processing, 200
Communications-Inspired Projection Design with Application to Compressive Sensing
We consider the recovery of an underlying signal x \in C^m based on
projection measurements of the form y=Mx+w, where y \in C^l and w is
measurement noise; we are interested in the case l < m. It is assumed that the
signal model p(x) is known, and w CN(w;0,S_w), for known S_W. The objective is
to design a projection matrix M \in C^(l x m) to maximize key
information-theoretic quantities with operational significance, including the
mutual information between the signal and the projections I(x;y) or the Renyi
entropy of the projections h_a(y) (Shannon entropy is a special case). By
capitalizing on explicit characterizations of the gradients of the information
measures with respect to the projections matrix, where we also partially extend
the well-known results of Palomar and Verdu from the mutual information to the
Renyi entropy domain, we unveil the key operations carried out by the optimal
projections designs: mode exposure and mode alignment. Experiments are
considered for the case of compressive sensing (CS) applied to imagery. In this
context, we provide a demonstration of the performance improvement possible
through the application of the novel projection designs in relation to
conventional ones, as well as justification for a fast online projections
design method with which state-of-the-art adaptive CS signal recovery is
achieved.Comment: 25 pages, 7 figures, parts of material published in IEEE ICASSP 2012,
submitted to SIIM
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