Investigation of unsupervised and supervised hyperspectral anomaly detection
This work addresses anomaly detection in hyperspectral sensing for applications like agriculture and military, but it appears incremental as it builds on prior ensemble methods.
The paper investigates hyperspectral anomaly detection methods, comparing unsupervised and supervised techniques, including their previously developed hybrid ensemble, to evaluate performance on general hyperspectral data.
Hyperspectral sensing is a valuable tool for detecting anomalies and distinguishing between materials in a scene. Hyperspectral anomaly detection (HS-AD) helps characterize the captured scenes and separates them into anomaly and background classes. It is vital in agriculture, environment, and military applications such as RSTA (reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition) missions. We previously designed an equal voting ensemble of hyperspectral unmixing and three unsupervised HS-AD algorithms. We later utilized a supervised classifier to determine the weights of a voting ensemble, creating a hybrid of heterogeneous unsupervised HS-AD algorithms with a supervised classifier in a model stacking, which improved detection accuracy. However, supervised classification methods usually fail to detect novel or unknown patterns that substantially deviate from those seen previously. In this work, we evaluate our technique and other supervised and unsupervised methods using general hyperspectral data to provide new insights.