HYPERSPECTRAL ANOMALY DETECTION WITH AN IMPROVED APPROACH: INTEGRATION OF GO DECOMPOSITION ALGORITHM AND LAPLACIAN MATRIX MODIFIER

Abstract

In this study, a hyperspectral anomaly detection method based on Laplacian matrix (HADLAP) is proposed. This paper addresses the problem of determining covariance matrix inversion in high-dimensional data and proposes a new approach for identifying anomalies in hyperspectral images (HSIs). The study’s goals are to find anomalous locations in HSIs and to deal with the problem of calculating the inversion of the covariance matrix of high dimensional data. The method is centered on two main concepts. One of them is decomposition process. The other one is detection process. First, HSI data is decomposed as a low rank and sparse matrices. Second, the sparse component of the data is used to build Mahalanobis Distance (MD). In this study, go decomposition (GoDec) algorithm is employed to decompose the data. Then, the distance is calculated by obtained matrix with aim of detection of anomalous pixels in the HSIs. The method differs from previous studies that covariance matrix in the distance is computed with Laplacian matrix and MD. Experiments conducted on three hyperspectral datasets present the superiority and effectiveness of the proposed framework in terms of detection performance with respect to state-of-the-art methods.