Assessment of Schrodinger Eigenmaps for target detection

Leidy P. Dorado Munoz; David W. Messinger; Wojtek Czaja

doi:10.1117/12.2050387

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13 June 2014 Assessment of Schrodinger Eigenmaps for target detection

Leidy P. Dorado Munoz, David W. Messinger, Wojtek Czaja

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Proceedings Volume 9088, Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral, Hyperspectral, and Ultraspectral Imagery XX; 908813 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2050387
Event: SPIE Defense + Security, 2014, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Abstract

Non-linear dimensionality reduction methods have been widely applied to hyperspectral imagery due to its structure as the information can be represented in a lower dimension without losing information, and because the non-linear methods preserve the local geometry of the data while the dimension is reduced. One of these methods is Laplacian Eigenmaps (LE), which assumes that the data lies on a low dimensional manifold embedded in a high dimensional space. LE builds a nearest neighbor graph, computes its Laplacian and performs the eigendecomposition of the Laplacian. These eigenfunctions constitute a basis for the lower dimensional space in which the geometry of the manifold is preserved. In addition to the reduction problem, LE has been widely used in tasks such as segmentation, clustering, and classification. In this regard, a new Schrodinger Eigenmaps (SE) method was developed and presented as a semi-supervised classification scheme in order to improve the classification performance and take advantage of the labeled data. SE is an algorithm built upon LE, where the former Laplacian operator is replaced by the Schrodinger operator. The Schrodinger operator includes a potential term V, that, taking advantage of the additional information such as labeled data, allows clustering of similar points. In this paper, we explore the idea of using SE in target detection. In this way, we present a framework where the potential term V is defined as a barrier potential: a diagonal matrix encoding the spatial position of the target, and the detection performance is evaluated by using different targets and different hyperspectral scenes.

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Leidy P. Dorado Munoz, David W. Messinger, and Wojtek Czaja "Assessment of Schrodinger Eigenmaps for target detection", Proc. SPIE 9088, Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral, Hyperspectral, and Ultraspectral Imagery XX, 908813 (13 June 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2050387

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