Remote Sensing, Vol. 11, Pages 1223: Joint Local Block Grouping with Noise-Adjusted Principal Component Analysis for Hyperspectral Remote-Sensing Imagery Sparse Unmixing (Remote Sensing)

Spatial regularized sparse unmixing has been proved as an effective spectral unmixing technique, combining spatial information and standard spectral signatures known in advance into the traditional spectral unmixing model in the form of sparse regression. In a spatial regularized sparse unmixing model, spatial consideration acts as an important role and develops from local neighborhood pixels to global structures. However, incorporating spatial relationships will increase the computational complexity, and it is inevitable that some negative influences obtained by inaccurate estimated abundances’ spatial correlations will reduce the accuracy of the algorithms. To obtain a more reliable and efficient spatial regularized sparse unmixing results, a joint local block grouping with noise-adjusted principal component analysis for hyperspectral remote-sensing imagery sparse unmixing is proposed in this paper. In this work, local block grouping is first utilized to gather and classify abundant spatial information in local blocks, and noise-adjusted principal component analysis is used to compress these series of classified local blocks and select the most significant ones. Then the representative spatial correlations are drawn and replace the traditional spatial regularization in the spatial regularized sparse unmixing method. Compared with total variation-based and non-local means-based sparse unmixing algorithms, the proposed approach can yield comparable experimental results with three simulated hyperspectral data cubes and two real hyperspectral remote-sensing images.