Spectral-Spatial Kernel Regularized for Hyperspectral Image Denoising

Yuan Yuan, Xiangtao Zheng, Xiaoqiang Lu

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Abstract

Noise contamination is a ubiquitous problem in hyperspectral images (HSIs), which is a challenging and promising theme in many remote sensing applications. A large number of methods have been proposed to remove noise. Unfortunately, most denoising methods fail to take full advantages of the high spectral correlation and to simultaneously consider the specific noise distributions in HSIs. Recently, a spectral-spatial adaptive hyperspectral total variation (SSAHTV) was proposed and obtained promising results. However, the SSAHTV model is insensitive to the image details, which makes the edges blur. To overcome all of these drawbacks, a spectral-spatial kernel method for HSI denoising is proposed in this paper. The proposed method is inspired by the observation that the spectral-spatial information is highly redundant in HSIs, which is sufficient to estimate the clear images. In this paper, a spectral-spatial kernel regularization is proposed to maintain the spectral correlations in spectral dimension and to match the original structure between two spatial dimensions. Moreover, an adaptive mechanism is developed to balance the fidelity term according to different noise distributions in each band. Therefore, it cannot only suppress noise in the high-noise band but also preserve information in the low-noise band. The reliability of the proposed method in removing noise is experimentally proved on both simulated data and real data.

Original languageEnglish
Article number7054493
Pages (from-to)3815-3832
Number of pages18
JournalIEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Volume53
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2015
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Adaptive kernel
  • hyperspectral image (HSI) denoising
  • nonlocal means (NLM)
  • spectral-spatial kernel regularization

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