LRR-Net: An Interpretable Deep Unfolding Network for Hyperspectral Anomaly Detection

Considerable endeavors have been expended toward enhancing the representation performance for hyperspectral anomaly detection (HAD) through physical model-based methods and recent deep learning-based approaches. Of these methods, the low-rank representation (LRR) model is widely adopted for its formidable separation capabilities for background and target features, however, its practical applications are limited due to the reliance on manual parameter selection and subpar generalization performance. To this end, this article presents a new HAD baseline network, referred to as LRR-Net, which synergizes the LRR model with deep learning techniques. LRR-Net leverages the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) optimizer to solve the LRR model efficiently and incorporates the solution as prior knowledge into the deep network to guide the optimization of parameters. Moreover, LRR-Net transforms the regularized parameters into trainable parameters of the deep neural network, thus alleviating the need for manual parameter tuning. Additionally, this article proposes a sparse neural network embedding to demonstrate the scalability of the LRR-Net framework. Empirical evaluations on eight distinct datasets illustrate the efficacy and superiority of the proposed approach compared to the state-of-the-art methods.