Title Hyperspectral unmixing of agricultural images taken from UAV using adapted U-Net architecture
Authors Paura, Vytautas ; Marcinkevičius, Virginijus
DOI 10.22364/bjmc.2025.13.3.04
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Is Part of Baltic journal of modern computing.. Riga : University of Latvia. 2025, vol. 13, no. 3, p. 624-640.. ISSN 2255-8942. eISSN 2255-8950
Keywords [eng] hyperspectral unmixing ; remote sensing ; deep neural networks
Abstract [eng] The hyperspectral unmixing method is an algorithm that extracts material (usually referred to as endmembers) data from hyperspectral data, along with their corresponding abun- dances. Due to the lower spatial resolution of hyperspectral sensor data compared to conventional cameras, each pixel is more likely to contain mixed information from multiple endmembers. In turn, mixed hyperspectral data is less valuable for use in research or predictive models. One of the problems in hyperspectral unmixing is the lack of openly available, field-collected datasets, particularly those from agricultural and other UAV-gathered sources. In turn, hyperspectral un- mixing algorithms are rarely tested on this data type. This paper proposes a hyperspectral un- mixing algorithm based on the U-Net network architecture to achieve more accurate unmixing results on existing and newly created hyperspectral unmixing datasets. The proposed model is fully unsupervised and is not limited by data shape and size. We also developed and shared a hyperspectral unmixing dataset derived from blueberry field data collected using a hyperspec- tral camera mounted on a Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). Compared to the state-of-the-art transformer-based unmixing model, our proposed algorithm achieved approximately 20% lower endmember RMSE and more than 50% lower reconstruction error values.
Published Riga : University of Latvia
Type Journal article
Language English
Publication date 2025
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