Remote Sensing, Vol. 15, Pages 817: SISLU-Net: Spatial Information-Assisted Spectral Information Learning Unmixing Network for Hyperspectral Images (Remote Sensing)

Spectral unmixing is among one of the major hyperspectral image analysis tasks that aims to extract basic features (endmembers) at the subpixel level and estimate their corresponding proportions (fractional abundances). Recently, the rapid development of deep learning networks has provided us with a new method to solve the problem of spectral unmixing. In this paper, we propose a spatial-information-assisted spectral information learning unmixing network (SISLU-Net) for hyperspectral images. The SISLU-Net consists of two branches. The upper branch focuses on the extraction of spectral information. The input of the upper branch is a number of pixels randomly extracted from the hyperspectral image. The data are fed into the network as a random combination of different pixel blocks each time. The random combination of batches can boost the network to learn global spectral information. Another branch focuses on learning spatial information from the entire hyperspectral image and transmitting it to the upper branch through the shared weight strategy. This allows the network to take into account the spectral information and spatial information of HSI at the same time. In addition, according to the distribution characteristics of endmembers, we employ Wing loss to solve the problem of uneven distributions of endmembers. Experimental results on one synthetic and three real hyperspectral data sets show that SISLU-Net is effective and competitive compared with several state-of-the-art unmixing algorithms in terms of the spectral angle distance (SAD) of the endmembers and the root mean square error (RMSE) of the abundances.