Superpixel-Based Weighted Collaborative Sparse Regression and Reweighted Low-Rank Representation for Hyperspectral Image Unmixing

Sparse unmixing with a semisupervised fashion has been applied to hyperspectral remote sensing imagery. However, the imprecise spatial contextual information, the lack of global feature and the high mutual coherences of a spectral library greatly limit the performance of sparse unmixing. In order to address these prominent problems, a new paradigm to characterize sparse hyperspectral unmixing is proposed, namely, the superpixel-based weighted collaborative sparse regression and reweighted low-rank representation unmixing (SBWCRLRU). In this method, the weighted collaborative sparse regression explores the pixels shared the same support set to help the sparsity of abundance fraction, and the reweighted low rank representation minimizes the rank of the abundance matrix to promote the spatial consistency of the image. Meanwhile, superpixel segmentation is adopted to cluster the pixels into different spatial homogeneous regions to further improve the unmixing performance. Extensive experiments results conducted on both synthetic and real data demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed SBWCRLRU. It can not only improve the performance of hyperspectral unmixing but also outperform the existing sparse unmixing approaches.