Signature-based detectors for hyperspectral target detection rely on knowing
the specific target signature in advance. However, target signature are often
difficult or impossible to obtain. Furthermore, common methods for obtaining
target signatures, such as from laboratory measurements or manual selection
from an image scene, usually do not capture the discriminative features of
target class. In this paper, an approach for estimating a discriminative target
signature from imprecise labels is presented. The proposed approach maximizes
the response of the hybrid sub-pixel detector within a multiple instance
learning framework and estimates a set of discriminative target signatures.
After learning target signatures, any signature based detector can then be
applied on test data. Both simulated and real hyperspectral target detection
experiments are shown to illustrate the effectiveness of the method