Meta-Pixel-Driven Embeddable Discriminative Target and Background Dictionary Pair Learning for Hyperspectral Target Detection

Abstract

In hyperspectral target detection, the spectral high-dimensionality, variability, and heterogeneity will pose great challenges to the accurate characterizations of the target and background. To alleviate the problems, we propose a Meta-pixel-driven Embeddable Discriminative target and background Dictionary Pair (MEDDP) learning model by combining low-dimensional embeddable subspace projection and the discriminative target and background dictionary pair learning. In MEDDP, the meta-pixel set is built by taking the merits of homogeneous superpixel segmentation and the local manifold affinity structures, which can significantly reduce the influence of spectral variability and find the most typical and informative prototype spectral signature. Afterward, an embeddable discriminative dictionary pair learning model is established to learn a target and background dictionary pair based on the structural incoherent constraint with embeddable subspace projection. The proposed joint learning strategy can reduce the high-dimensional redundant information and simultaneously enhance the discrimination and compactness of the target and background dictionaries. The proposed MEDDP model is solved by an iterative and alternate optimization algorithm and applied with the meta-pixel-level target detection method. Experimental results on four benchmark HSI datasets indicate that the proposed method can consistently yield promising performance in comparison with some state-of-the-art target detectors.