Structured low-rank representation learning for hyperspectral sparse unmixing

Abstract

ABSTRACT Sparse unmixing methods have been widely used to estimate the abundance of each material component from hyperspectral images. However, conventional sparse unmixing approaches only consider matrix factorization without limited explorations on the high-dimensional structures of the third-order tensors. To address this issue, we propose SUnSLRR, a novel approach to sparse unmixing of hyperspectral data based on structured low-rank tensor modelling. In contrast to traditional methods, SUnSLRR leverages the low-rank property underlying the abundance tensor to exploit structural details from multiple modes. By incorporating sparsity regularization and a low-rank constraint, SUnSLRR can effectively extract the intrinsic features of hyperspectral data. We apply the alternating direction method of multipliers framework to solve the optimization problem induced by SUnSLRR, and experiments conducted on simulated and real hyperspectral images demonstrate the superior effectiveness of our proposed method compared to traditional methods in terms of both accuracy and efficiency.