A Hyperspectral Nonlinear Unmixing Network for Nearshore Underwater Target Detection

The existing hyperspectral underwater target detection algorithms are ineffective in adapting to nearshore environments, owing to the difficulty of extracting target signals from cluttered nearshore backgrounds combined with weak target signals. To this end, hyperspectral unmixing (HU) is well suited in this paper for nearshore underwater target detection (UTD) task to address these issues, by extracting background endmembers and separating out weak target signals simultaneously. Specifically, we propose a novel nonlinear unmixing network for nearshore underwater target detection (NUN-UTD). It comprises an unsymmetrical autoencoder and a target prior preservation module to adapt to the complex nearshore environment. Experiments demonstrate that NUN-UTD achieves the best detection performances and visual results compared with other state-of-the-art methods.