Sensors, Vol. 18, Pages 3528: Spectral Unmixing of Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Imagery via Preserving the Intrinsic Structure Invariant (Sensors)

Hyperspectral unmixing, which decomposes mixed pixels into endmembers and corresponding abundance maps of endmembers, has obtained much attention in recent decades. Most spectral unmixing algorithms based on non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) do not explore the intrinsic manifold structure of hyperspectral data space. Studies have proven image data is smooth along the intrinsic manifold structure. Thus, this paper explores the intrinsic manifold structure of hyperspectral data space and introduces manifold learning into NMF for spectral unmixing. Firstly, a novel projection equation is employed to model the intrinsic structure of hyperspectral image preserving spectral information and spatial information of hyperspectral image. Then, a graph regularizer which establishes a close link between hyperspectral image and abundance matrix is introduced in the proposed method to keep intrinsic structure invariant in spectral unmixing. In this way, decomposed abundance matrix is able to preserve the true abundance intrinsic structure, which leads to a more desired spectral unmixing performance. At last, the experimental results including the spectral angle distance and the root mean square error on synthetic and real hyperspectral data prove the superiority of the proposed method over the previous methods.