Hyperspectral Pixel Unmixing with Latent Dirichlet Variational Autoencoder
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Hyperspectral pixel intensities result from a mixing of reflectances from several materials. This paper develops a method of hyperspectral pixel unmixing that aims to recover the "pure" spectral signal of each material (hereafter referred to as endmembers) together with the mixing ratios (abundances) given the spectrum of a single pixel. The unmixing problem is particularly relevant in the case of low-resolution hyperspectral images captured in a remote sensing setting, where individual pixels can cover large regions of the scene. Under the assumptions that (1) a multivariate Normal distribution can represent the spectra of an endmember and (2) a Dirichlet distribution can encode abundances of different endmembers, we develop a Latent Dirichlet Variational Autoencoder for hyperspectral pixel unmixing. Our approach achieves state-of-the-art results on standard benchmarks and on synthetic data generated using United States Geological Survey spectral library.
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