A novel l(1/2) sparse regression method for hyperspectral unmixing

作者:Sun Le; Wu Zebin*; Xiao Liang; Liu Jianjun; Wei Zhihui; Dang Fuxing
来源:International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2013, 34(20): 6983-7001.
DOI:10.1080/01431161.2013.804225

摘要

Hyperspectral unmixing (HU) is a popular tool in remotely sensed hyperspectral data interpretation, and it is used to estimate the number of reference spectra (end-members), their spectral signatures, and their fractional abundances. However, it can also be assumed that the observed image signatures can be expressed in the form of linear combinations of a large number of pure spectral signatures known in advance (e.g. spectra collected on the ground by a field spectro-radiometer, called a spectral library). Under this assumption, the solution of the fractional abundances of each spectrum can be seen as sparse, and the HU problem can be modelled as a constrained sparse regression (CSR) problem used to compute the fractional abundances in a sparse (i.e. with a small number of terms) linear mixture of spectra, selected from large libraries. In this article, we use the l(1/2) regularizer with the properties of unbiasedness and sparsity to enforce the sparsity of the fractional abundances instead of the l(0) and l(1) regularizers in CSR unmixing models, as the l(1/2) regularizer is much easier to be solved than the l(0) regularizer and has stronger sparsity than the l(1) regularizer (Xu et al. 2010). A reweighted iterative algorithm is introduced to convert the l(1/2) problem into the l(1) problem; we then use the Split Bregman iterative algorithm to solve this reweighted l(1) problem by a linear transformation. The experiments on simulated and real data both show that the l(1/2) regularized sparse regression method is effective and accurate on linear hyperspectral unmixing.

  • 出版日期2013-10-20