Improved Deep Spectral Convolution Network For Hyperspectral Unmixing With Multinomial Mixture Kernel and Endmember Uncertainty

Abstract: In this study, we propose a novel framework for hyperspectral unmixing by using an improved deep spectral convolution network (DSCN++) combined with endmember uncertainty. DSCN++ is used to compute high-level representations which are further modeled with Multinomial Mixture Model to estimate abundance maps. In the reconstruction step, a new trainable uncertainty term based on a nonlinear neural network model is introduced to provide robustness to endmember uncertainty. For the optimization of the coefficients of the multinomial model and the uncertainty term, Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Network (WGAN) is exploited to improve stability and to capture uncertainty. Experiments are performed on both real and synthetic datasets. The results validate that the proposed method obtains state-of-the-art hyperspectral unmixing performance particularly on the real datasets compared to the baseline techniques.