In recent years, endmember variability has received much attention in the field of hyperspectral unmixing. To solve the problem caused by the inaccuracy of the endmember signature, the endmembers are usually modeled to assume followed by a statistical distribution. However, those distribution-based methods only use the spectral information alone and do not fully exploit the possible local spatial correlation. When the pixels lie on the inhomogeneous region, the abundances of the neighboring pixels will not share the same prior constraints. Thus, in this paper, to achieve better abundance estimation performance, a method based on the Gaussian mixture model (GMM) and spatial group sparsity constraint is proposed. To fully exploit the group structure, we take the superpixel segmentation (SS) as preprocessing to generate the spatial groups. Then, we use GMM to model the endmember distribution, incorporating the spatial group sparsity as a mixed-norm regularization into the objective function. Finally, under the Bayesian framework, the conditional density function leads to a standard maximum a posteriori (MAP) problem, which can be solved using generalized expectation-maximization (GEM). Experiments on simulated and real hyperspectral data demonstrate that the proposed algorithm has higher unmixing precision compared with other state-of-the-art methods.

With the continuous development of hyperspectral image technology and deep learning methods in recent years, an increasing number of hyperspectral image classification models have been proposed. However, due to the numerous spectral dimensions of hyperspectral images, most classification models suffer from issues such as breaking spectral continuity and poor learning of spectral information. In this paper, we propose a new classification model called the enhanced spectral fusion network (ESFNet), which contains two parts: an optimized multi-scale fused spectral attention module (FsSE) and a 3D convolutional neural network (3D CNN) based on the fusion of different spectral strides (SSFCNN). Specifically, after sampling the hyperspectral images, our model first implements the weighting of the spectral information through the FsSE module to obtain spectral data with a higher degree of information richness. Then, the weighted spectral data are fed into the SSFCNN to realize the effective learning of spectral features. The new model can maximize the retention of spectral continuity and enhance the spectral information while being able to better utilize the enhanced information to improve the model’s ability to learn hyperspectral image features, thus improving the classification accuracy of the model. Experiment results on the Indian Pines and Pavia University datasets demonstrated that our method outperforms other relevant baselines in terms of classification accuracy and generalization performance.

The problem of small and multi-object polished rice image segmentation has always been one of importance and difficulty in the field of image segmentation. In the appearance quality detection of polished rice, image segmentation is a crucial part, directly affecting the results of follow-up physicochemical indicators. To avoid leak detection and inaccuracy in image segmentation qualifying polished rice, this paper proposes a new image segmentation method (YO-LACTS), combining YOLOv5 with YOLACT. We tested the YOLOv5-based object detection network, to extract Regions of Interest (RoI) from the whole image of the polished rice, in order to reduce the image complexity and maximize the target feature difference. We refined the segmentation of the RoI image by establishing the instance segmentation network YOLACT, and we eventually procured the outcome by merging the RoI. Compared to other algorithms based on polished rice datasets, this constructed method was shown to present the image segmentation, enabling researchers to evaluate polished rice satisfactorily.

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Deep network models rely on sufficient training samples to perform reasonably well, which has inevitably constrained their application in classification of hyperspectral images (HSIs) due to the limited availability of labeled data. To tackle this particular challenge, we propose a hybrid relation network, H-RNet, by combining three-dimensional (3-D) convolution neural networks (CNN) and two-dimensional (2-D) CNN to extract the spectral–spatial features whilst reducing the complexity of the network. In an end-to-end relation learning module, the sample pairing approach can effectively alleviate the problem of few labeled samples and learn correlations between samples more accurately for more effective classification. Experimental results on three publicly available datasets have fully demonstrated the superior performance of the proposed model in comparison to a few state-of-the-art methods.