Author:
Dalton Rosario
Affiliation:
Army Research Laboratory, United States
Keyword(s):
Anomaly detection, Asymmetric hypothesis test, Hyperspectral imagery.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Computer Vision, Visualization and Computer Graphics
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Early Vision and Image Representation
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Feature Extraction
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Features Extraction
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Image and Video Analysis
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Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics
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Signal Processing, Sensors, Systems Modeling and Control
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Statistical Approach
Abstract:
Local anomaly detectors have become quite popular for applications requiring hyperspectral (HS) target detection in natural clutter background assisted by an image analyst. Their popularity may be attributed to the simplicity of the algorithms designed to function as such. A disadvantage of using such detectors, however, is that they often produce an intolerable high number of detections per scene, which—according to image analysts—becomes a nuisance rather than an aiding tool. We present an effective local anomaly detector for HS data. The new detector exploits a notion of indirect comparison between two sets of samples and is free from distribution assumptions. The notion led us to derive a compact solution for a variance test, in which, under the null hypothesis, the detector’s performance converges to a known distribution. Experimental results using both simulated multivariate data and real HS data are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of this detector over five known alt
ernative techniques.
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