Proceedings Article | 28 September 2009
Proc. SPIE. 7477, Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing XV
KEYWORDS: Target detection, Hyperspectral imaging, Roads, Contamination, Statistical analysis, Detection and tracking algorithms, Sensors, Image segmentation, Image analysis, Signal processing
The benchmark anomaly detection algorithm for hyperspectral images is the Reed-Xiaoli (RX) Detector, which is based
on the Local Multivariate Normality of background. RX algorithm, along with its many modified versions, has been
widely explored, and the main concerns identified are related to local background covariance matrix estimation. Besides
the well-known small-sample size problem, other limitations have been found affecting covariance matrix estimation,
e.g. local background non-homogeneity and contamination from adjacent targets. These critical aspects are deeply
different in nature, like the situations from which they arise, and hence they have been typically discussed within
different frameworks, disregarding possible existing links while developing different approaches to solution.
Nevertheless, these critical aspects may occur together in reality, and all of them have to be taken into consideration
when approaching anomaly detection, since they may strongly affect detection performance. Therefore, an analysis of
the possible existing connections seems crucial in order to asses if existing algorithms, maybe designed ad-hoc to solve a
specific problem, can handle more complex situations. In this work, the aforementioned limitations have been
investigated from an anomaly detection perspective, and the corresponding approaches to improved covariance matrix
estimation have been analyzed by using real hyperspectral data.
