Spectral constraint adversarial autoencoders approach to feature representation in hyperspectral anomaly detection

Abstract Anomaly detection in hyperspectral images (HSIs) faces various levels of difficulty due to the high dimensionality, redundant information and deteriorated bands. To address these problems, we propose a novel unsupervised feature representation approach by incorporating a spectral constraint strategy into adversarial autoencoders (AAE) without any prior knowledge in this paper. Our approach, called SC_AAE (spectral constraint AAE), is based on the characteristics of HSIs to obtain better discrimination represented by hidden nodes. To be specific, we adopt a spectral angle distance into the loss function of AAE to enforce spectral consistency. Considering the different contribution rates of each hidden node to anomaly detection, we individually fuse the hidden nodes by an adaptive weighting method. A bi-layer architecture is then designed to suppress the variational background (BKG) while preserving features of anomalies. The experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods.