Hyperspectral Imaging For Detection Research Articles

Selecting optimal bands for sub‐pixel target detection in hyperspectral images based on implanting synthetic targets

Target detection at sub-pixel abundances is, in fact, one of the challenging issues of hyperspectral image processing. Selection of optimal bands to improve sub-pixel target detection (STD) performance is one of the common solutions, applied by many researchers. Nevertheless, the absence of sufficient training data is the main weakness of selecting optimal bands with regard to this approach. The present research introduces a new band selection method for STD in hyperspectral images, based on creating training data, in which the desired target spectrum is implanted randomly in a series of host pixels from the entire hyperspectral image. Afterwards, via running an optimisation algorithm twice, with the aim of minimising the false alarm rate (FAR) in local adaptive coherence estimator target detection algorithm, the number of optimal bands and optimal spectral bands are selected. In this study, the performance of three optimisation methods including the genetic algorithm (GA), Grey Wolf optimisation (GWO), and particle swarm optimisation (PSO) are compared. Experimental results on HyMap and Hyperion datasets show that the proposed method obtains the minimum FAR compared with the rest of the evaluated methods. Also, based on the results obtained, GWO outperforms GA and PSO optimisation methods in the STD domain.

A Novel FPGA-Based Architecture for Fast Automatic Target Detection in Hyperspectral Images

Onboard target detection of hyperspectral imagery (HSI), considered as a significant remote sensing application, has gained increasing attention in the latest years. It usually requires processing huge volumes of HSI data in real-time under constraints of low computational complexity and high detection accuracy. Automatic target generation process based on an orthogonal subspace projector (ATGP-OSP) is a well-known automatic target detection algorithm, which is widely used owing to its competitive performance. However, ATGP-OSP has an issue to be deployed onboard in real-time target detection due to its iteratively calculating the inversion of growing matrices and increasing matrix multiplications. To resolve this dilemma, we propose a novel fast implementation of ATGP (Fast-ATGP) while maintaining target detection accuracy of ATGP-OSP. Fast-ATGP takes advantage of simple regular matrix add/multiply operations instead of increasingly complicated matrix inversions to update growing orthogonal projection operator matrices. Furthermore, the updated orthogonal projection operator matrix is replaced by a normalized vector to perform the inner-product operations with each pixel for finding a target per iteration. With these two major optimizations, the computational complexity of ATGP-OSP is substantially reduced. What is more, an FPGA-based implementation of the proposed Fast-ATGP using high-level synthesis (HLS) is developed. Specifically, an efficient architecture containing a bunch of pipelines being executed in parallel is further designed and evaluated on a Xilinx XC7VX690T FPGA. The experimental results demonstrate that our proposed FPGA-based Fast-ATGP is able to automatically detect multiple targets on a commonly used dataset (AVIRIS Cuprite Data) at a high-speed rate of 200 MHz with a significant speedup of nearly 34.3 times that of ATGP-OSP, while retaining nearly the same high detection accuracy.

On the spectral signature of melanoma: a non-parametric classification framework for cancer detection in hyperspectral imaging of melanocytic lesions.

Early detection and diagnosis is a must in secondary prevention of melanoma and other cancerous lesions of the skin. In this work, we present an online, reservoir-based, non-parametric estimation and classification model that allows for this functionality on pigmented lesions, such that detection thresholding can be tuned to maximize accuracy and/or minimize overall false negative rates. This system has been tested in a dataset consisting of 116 patients and a total of 124 hyperspectral images of nevi, raised nevi and melanomas, detecting up to 100% of the suspicious lesions at the expense of some false positives.

A Distributed Parallel Algorithm Based on Low-Rank and Sparse Representation for Anomaly Detection in Hyperspectral Images.

Anomaly detection aims to separate anomalous pixels from the background, and has become an important application of remotely sensed hyperspectral image processing. Anomaly detection methods based on low-rank and sparse representation (LRASR) can accurately detect anomalous pixels. However, with the significant volume increase of hyperspectral image repositories, such techniques consume a significant amount of time (mainly due to the massive amount of matrix computations involved). In this paper, we propose a novel distributed parallel algorithm (DPA) by redesigning key operators of LRASR in terms of MapReduce model to accelerate LRASR on cloud computing architectures. Independent computation operators are explored and executed in parallel on Spark. Specifically, we reconstitute the hyperspectral images in an appropriate format for efficient DPA processing, design the optimized storage strategy, and develop a pre-merge mechanism to reduce data transmission. Besides, a repartitioning policy is also proposed to improve DPA’s efficiency. Our experimental results demonstrate that the newly developed DPA achieves very high speedups when accelerating LRASR, in addition to maintaining similar accuracies. Moreover, our proposed DPA is shown to be scalable with the number of computing nodes and capable of processing big hyperspectral images involving massive amounts of data.

Hyperspectral Anomaly Detection Through Spectral Unmixing and Dictionary-Based Low-Rank Decomposition

Anomaly detection has been known to be a challenging problem due to the uncertainty of anomaly and the interference of noise. In this paper, we focus on anomaly detection in hyperspectral images (HSIs) and propose a novel detection algorithm based on spectral unmixing and dictionary-based low-rank decomposition. The innovation is threefold. First, due to the highly mixed nature of pixels in HSI data, instead of using the raw pixel directly for anomaly detection, the proposed algorithm applies spectral unmixing to obtain the abundance vectors and uses these vectors for anomaly detection. We show that the abundance vectors possess more distinctive features to identify anomaly from background. Second, to better represent the highly correlated background and the sparse anomaly, we construct a dictionary based on the mean shift clustering of the abundance vectors to improve both the discriminative and representative powers of the algorithm. Finally, a low-rank matrix decomposition method based on the constructed dictionary is proposed to encourage the coefficients of the dictionary, instead of the background itself, to be low rank, and the residual matrix to be sparse. Anomalies can then be extracted by summing up the columns of the residual matrix. The proposed algorithm is evaluated on both synthetic and real data sets. Experimental results show that the proposed approach constantly achieves high detection rate, while maintaining low false alarm rate regardless of the type of images tested.

Salient object detection in hyperspectral imagery using multi-scale spectral-spatial gradient

Abstract Spectra in hyperspectral images (HSIs) benefit identifying objects from cluttered background, thus increasing effort has been made for salient object detection in HSIs. However, most existing methods are sensitive to the spectral variation brought by uneven illumination during imaging as well as objects of various scales. To address this problem, we propose a novel multi-scale spectral-spatial gradient based salient object detection method for HSIs. Through constructing a region based hierarchical structure, we obtain various saliency maps by evaluating each region in multiple scales with a spectra-spatial gradient saliency model, which not only depicts the global region contrast with the spectral gradient, but also exploits the spatial gradient to highlight regions with semantic edges. Given these saliency maps, the final result is given as their weighted summation. The proposed method is robust to spectral variation and can adaptively detect objects of various scales. Two prior models are further integrated into the proposed saliency model to enhance the detection accuracy. Experimental results on real HSIs validate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Progressive line processing of global and local real-time anomaly detection in hyperspectral images

Hyperspectral imaging, which is characterized by its abundant spectral and spatial information, can effectively identify and detect ground objects. In order to detect moving targets and relieve the stress of big data storage, real-time processing of anomaly detection is greatly desired. This paper investigates both global and local real-time implementations of the most widely used RX detector in a line-by-line fashion. Firstly, global and local causal frameworks are designed to meet the causality, which is one requirement of real-time character. Secondly, taking advantage of the Woodbury matrix identity, recursive update equations of the inverse covariance matrix and background data estimate mean are derived, thereby achieving very low computational complexity. As for local real-time architecture, multiple local semi-windows are designed to simultaneously detect all pixels of a data line. This designation has an advantage that it is very beneficial for the implementation of real-time anomaly detection on graphics processing units. The proposed global and local real-time strategies have been deeply analyzed summarizing that the computational complexity is greatly reduced under the comparable detection accuracy. This is finally validated by experimental results.

Spatially Adaptive Sparse Representation for Target Detection in Hyperspectral Images

As sparse representation gradually obtains better and better results in the analysis of hyperspectral imagery and sparsity-based algorithms are becoming more and more popular, especially in target detection. However, these methods mostly assume an absolute equal contribution by all neighboring pixels while detecting the central pixel. There is no doubt that this approach is unsuitable for pixels located in heterogeneous areas. In this letter, to address this problem, spatially adaptive sparse representation for target detection in hyperspectral images (HSIs) is proposed. Neighboring spatial information is utilized by considering the different contributions of the distinct neighborhood pixels. The different weights are determined according to the similarity between the neighboring pixels and the central test pixel. The proposed algorithm was tested on two HSIs and demonstrated outstanding detection performance when compared with other commonly used detectors.

Hyperspectral Anomaly Detection With Attribute and Edge-Preserving Filters

A novel method for anomaly detection in hyperspectral images is proposed. The method is based on two ideas. First, compared with the surrounding background, objects with anomalies usually appear with small areas and distinct spectral signatures. Second, for both the background and the objects with anomalies, pixels in the same class are usually highly correlated in the spatial domain. In this paper, the pixels with specific area property and distinct spectral signatures are first detected with attribute filtering and a Boolean map-based fusion approach in order to obtain an initial pixel-wise detection result. Then, the initial detection result is refined with edge-preserving filtering to make full use of the spatial correlations among adjacent pixels. Compared with other widely used anomaly detection methods, the experimental results obtained on real hyperspectral data sets including airport, beach, and urban scenes demonstrate that the performance of the proposed method is quite competitive in terms of computing time and detection accuracy.

Introductory view of anomalous change detection in hyperspectral images within a theoretical gaussian framework

Exploitation of temporal series of hyperspectral images is a relatively new discipline that has gained a lot of attention from the image processing scientific community. In this paper, we consider the specific problem of anomalous change detection (ACD) in hyperspectral images and discuss how images taken at two different times can be processed to detect changes caused by insertion, deletion, or displacement of small objects in the monitored scene. We introduce the ACD problem using an approach based on the statistical decision theory and we derive a common framework including different ACD approaches. Far from being inclusive of all the methods proposed in the literature, this tutorial overview places emphasis on techniques based on the multivariate Gaussian model that allows a formal presentation of the ACD problem and the rigorous derivation of the possible solutions in a way that is both mathematically more tractable and easier to interpret. The unification of different approaches under a single rigorous statistical scheme provides both a tutorial overview of ACD techniques, and a useful instrument for researchers already familiar with the ACD problem. Dedicated preprocessing methods aimed at improving the robustness of the ACD process are also discussed. Real data are exploited to test and compare the presented methods, highlighting advantages and drawbacks of each approach. The tutorial aspect of the paper has suggested the use of a freely available data set. This should hopefully motivate the interested reader to experiment with the processing methods and performance evaluation chain presented herein.

Hyperspectral imaging detection of decayed honey peaches based on their chlorophyll content

Honey peach is a very common but highly perishable market fruit. When pathogens infect fruit, chlorophyll as one of the important components related to fruit quality, decreased significantly. Here, the feasibility of hyperspectral imaging to determine the chlorophyll content thus distinguishing diseased peaches was investigated. Three optimal wavelengths (617nm, 675nm, and 818nm) were selected according to chlorophyll content via successive projections algorithm. Partial least square regression models were established to determine chlorophyll content. Three band ratios were obtained using these optimal wavelengths, which improved spatial details, but also integrates the information of chemical composition from spectral characteristics. The band ratio values were suitable to classify the diseased peaches with 98.75% accuracy and clearly show the spatial distribution of diseased parts. This study provides a new perspective for the selection of optimal wavelengths of hyperspectral imaging via chlorophyll content, thus enabling the detection of fungal diseases in peaches.

A real-time CFAR thresholding method for target detection in hyperspectral images

In order to support immediate decision-making in critical circumstances such as military reconnaissance and disaster rescue, real-time onboard implementation of target detection is greatly desired. In this paper, a real-time thresholding method (RT-THRES) is proposed to obtain the constant false alarm rate (CFAR) thresholds for target detection in real-time circumstances. RT-THRES utilizes Gaussian mixture model (GMM) to track and fit the distribution of the target detector's outputs. GMM is an extension to Gaussian probability density function, which could approximate any distribution smoothly. In this method, GMM is utilized to model the detector's output, and then the detection threshold is calculated to achieve a CFAR detection. The conventional GMM's parameter estimation by Expectation-Maximization (EM) requires all data samples in the dataset to be involved during the procedure and the the parameters would be re-estimated when new data samples available. Thus, GMM is difficult to be applied in real-time processing when newly observed data samples coming progressively. To improve GMM's application availability in time-critical circumstance, an optimization strategy is proposed by introducing the Incremental GMM (IGMM) which allows GMM's parameter to be estimated online incrementally. Experiments on real hyperspectral image and synthetic dataset suggest that RT-THRES can track and model the detection outputs' distribution accurately which ensures the accuracy of the calculation of CFAR thresholds. Moreover, by applying the optimization strategy the computational consumption of RT-THRES maintains relatively low.

Fusion of Target Detection Algorithms in Hyperspectral Images

Target detection in hyperspectral images is important in many applications including search and rescue operations, defence systems, mineral exploration and border security. For this purpose, several target detection algorithms have been proposed over the years, however, it is not clear which of these algorithms perform best on real data and on sub-pixel targets, and moreover, which of these algorithms have complementary information and should be fused together. The goal of this study is to detect the nine arbitrarily placed sub-pixel targets, from seven different materials from a 1.4km altitude. For this purpose, eight signature-based hyperspectral target detection algorithms, namely the GLRT, ACE, SACE, CEM, MF, AMSD, OSP and HUD, and three anomaly detectors, namely RX, Maxmin and Diffdet, were tested and compared. Among the signature-based target detectors, the three best performing algorithms that have complementary information were identified. Finally these algorithms were fused together using four different fusion algorithms. Our results indicate that with a proper fusion strategy, five of the nine targets could be found with no false alarms.

Study on Nondestructive Detecting Gannan Navel Pesticide Residue with Hyperspectral Imaging Technology

Hyperspectral imaging technology is a rapid, non-destructive, and non-contact technique which integrates spectroscopy and digital imaging to simultaneously obtain spectral and spatial information. Hyperspectral images are made up of hundreds of contiguous wavebands for each spatial position of a sample studied and each pixel in an image contains the spectrum for that specific position. With hyperspectral imaging, a spectrum for each pixel can be obtained and a gray scale image for each narrow band can be acquired, enabling this system to reflect componential and constructional characteristics of an object and their spatial distributions. In this study, hyperspectral image technology is used to discuss the application of hyperspectral imaging detection technology of Jiangxi navel orange surface of different concentrations of pesticide residue changes with time relationship. The pesticide was diluted to 1 : 20, 1 : 100 and 1 : 1 000 solution with distilled water. A 1×2 matrix of dilutions was applied to each of 30 cleaned samples with different density pesticide residue. After 0, 4 and 20 d respectively, hyperspectral images in the wavelength range from 900 to 1 700 nm are taken. The characteristic wavelengths are achieved by using principal component analysis (PCA) and the PC-2 image based on PCA using characteristic wavelengths (930, 980, 1 100, 1 210, 1 300, 1 400, 1 620 and 1 680 nm) as the classification and recognition of image. Based on these 8 characteristic wavelengths for a second principal component analysis, the application of PC-2 image and appropriate image processing methods for different concentrations and different days of placing pesticide residues in non-destructive testing were applied. Using hyperspectral imaging technology to detect three periods a higher dilution of the fruit surface pesticide residues are more obvious. This research shows that the technology of hyperspectral imaging can be used to effectively detect pesticide residue on Gannan navel surface.

Objects Detection in Hyperspectral Images Using Spectral Derivative

In recent years hyperspectral imaging has proved its significance in the detection and mapping of various objects of interest in a scene. Various methods for object detection in hyperspectral images have been developed with their advantages and limitations. In the present study, a methodology comprising spectral derivative (first order) and spectral information divergence has been investigated for detection of objects in hyperspectral images. The efficacy of the detection scheme has been examined over two different hyperspectral data sets of Hyperion images. Tea plants (Camellia sinensis) and Sal trees (Shorea robusta) (pure pixels) have been detected as the objects of interest in the hyperspectral images independently with reduced false pixels. The proposed methodology may in future be applied for classification of mixed pixels.

A New Methodology Based on Level Sets for Target Detection in Hyperspectral Images

Target detection in hyperspectral images (HSIs) is an active area of research; it seeks to detect objects that are small in both number and size within a scene. The proposed work presents a new methodology for target detection in HSIs by combining kurtosis, level sets, and a size-based thresholding strategy. Kurtosis is used as a preprocessing step to initially enhance the targets in an image. Then, level sets identify and mark associations of pixels with similar spectral information as candidate targets. Finally, the size-based thresholding strategy detects true targets and discards false alarms that do not fit with target dimensions set as input parameter. In addition, we propose a novel version of level sets, which is suitable for target detection tasks in HSIs. Results show that the proposed algorithm could successfully detect targets in HSIs, and it gave better performance in terms of the receiver operating characteristic curve than other techniques widely used in target detection such as orthogonal subspace projection, constrained signal detector, constrained energy minimization, adaptive cosine/coherent estimator algorithm, and generalized-likelihood ratio test.

A BAND SELECTION METHOD FOR SUB-PIXEL TARGET DETECTION IN HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES BASED ON LABORATORY AND FIELD REFLECTANCE SPECTRAL COMPARISON

In recent years, developing target detection algorithms has received growing interest in hyperspectral images. In comparison to the classification field, few studies have been done on dimension reduction or band selection for target detection in hyperspectral images. This study presents a simple method to remove bad bands from the images in a supervised manner for sub-pixel target detection. The proposed method is based on comparing field and laboratory spectra of the target of interest for detecting bad bands. For evaluation, the target detection blind test dataset is used in this study. Experimental results show that the proposed method can improve efficiency of the two well-known target detection methods, ACE and CEM.

A BAND SELECTION METHOD FOR SUB-PIXEL TARGET DETECTION IN HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES BASED ON LABORATORY AND FIELD REFLECTANCE SPECTRAL COMPARISON

Abstract. In recent years, developing target detection algorithms has received growing interest in hyperspectral images. In comparison to the classification field, few studies have been done on dimension reduction or band selection for target detection in hyperspectral images. This study presents a simple method to remove bad bands from the images in a supervised manner for sub-pixel target detection. The proposed method is based on comparing field and laboratory spectra of the target of interest for detecting bad bands. For evaluation, the target detection blind test dataset is used in this study. Experimental results show that the proposed method can improve efficiency of the two well-known target detection methods, ACE and CEM.

Anomaly Detection in Hyperspectral Images Based on Low-Rank and Sparse Representation

A novel method for anomaly detection in hyperspectral images (HSIs) is proposed based on low-rank and sparse representation. The proposed method is based on the separation of the background and the anomalies in the observed data. Since each pixel in the background can be approximately represented by a background dictionary and the representation coefficients of all pixels form a low-rank matrix, a low-rank representation is used to model the background part. To better characterize each pixel's local representation, a sparsity-inducing regularization term is added to the representation coefficients. Moreover, a dictionary construction strategy is adopted to make the dictionary more stable and discriminative. Then, the anomalies are determined by the response of the residual matrix. An important advantage of the proposed algorithm is that it combines the global and local structure in the HSI. Experimental results have been conducted using both simulated and real data sets. These experiments indicate that our algorithm achieves very promising anomaly detection performance.

Reference spectral signature selection using density-based cluster for automatic oil spill detection in hyperspectral images.

Reference spectral signature selection is a fundamental work for automatic oil spill detection. To address this issue, a new approach is proposed here, which employs the density-based cluster to select a specific spectral signature from a hyperspectral image. This paper first introduces the framework of oil spill detection from hyperspectral images, indicating that detecting oil spill requires a reference spectral signature of oil spill, parameters of background, and a target detection algorithm. Based on the framework, we give the new reference spectral signature selection approach in details. Then, we demonstrate the estimation of background parameters according to the reflectance of seawater in the infrared bands. Next, the conventional adaptive cosine estimator (ACE) algorithm is employed to achieve oil spill detection. Finally, the proposed approach is tested via several practical hyperspectral images that are collected during the Horizon Deep water oil spill. The experimental results show that this new approach can automatically select the reference spectral signature of oil spills from hyperspectral images and has high detection performance.