Auto-AD: Autonomous Hyperspectral Anomaly Detection Network Based on Fully Convolutional Autoencoder

Hyperspectral anomaly detection is aimed at detecting observations that differ from their surroundings, and is an active area of research in hyperspectral image processing. Recently, autoencoders (AEs) have been applied in hyperspectral anomaly detection; however, the existing AE-based methods are c...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing Vol. 60; pp. 1 - 14
Main Authors: Wang, Shaoyu, Wang, Xinyu, Zhang, Liangpei, Zhong, Yanfei
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York IEEE 2022
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects:
Adaptive-weighted loss
Anomalies
Anomaly detection
autonomous detection
Datasets
Detection
Detectors
Errors
Estimation
Feature extraction
fully convolutional autoencoder (AE)
hyperspectral anomaly detection
Hyperspectral imaging
Image processing
Image reconstruction
Probability theory
Training
Unmanned aerial vehicles
ISSN:0196-2892, 1558-0644
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Summary:Hyperspectral anomaly detection is aimed at detecting observations that differ from their surroundings, and is an active area of research in hyperspectral image processing. Recently, autoencoders (AEs) have been applied in hyperspectral anomaly detection; however, the existing AE-based methods are complicated and involve manual parameter setting and preprocessing and/or postprocessing procedures. In this article, an autonomous hyperspectral anomaly detection network (Auto-AD) is proposed, in which the background is reconstructed by the network and the anomalies appear as reconstruction errors. Specifically, through a fully convolutional AE with skip connections, the background can be reconstructed while the anomalies are difficult to reconstruct, since the anomalies are relatively small compared to the background and have a low probability of occurring in the image. To further suppress the anomaly reconstruction, an adaptive-weighted loss function is designed, where the weights of potential anomalous pixels with large reconstruction errors are reduced during training. As a result, the anomalies have a higher contrast with the background in the map of reconstruction errors. The experimental results obtained on a public airborne data set and two unmanned aerial vehicle-borne hyperspectral data sets confirm the effectiveness of the proposed Auto-AD method.
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ISSN:0196-2892
1558-0644
DOI:10.1109/TGRS.2021.3057721