Research supporting improved anomaly detection performance benefits a wide range of technical applications, and thus, the definition of what anomalies are and the subsequent means to detect them are wide ranging. In this treatment, an overview of the development of an anomaly detection approach based on spectral signatures obtained with hyperspectral unmixing is presented. The algorithm is designed to address some of the shortcomings of current techniques whose functionality is dependent upon normalized differences between discrete frequencies or spectral components, or those based on estimated distances between background spectra and pixels under test. Details about the extracted endmembers and their use for effective anomaly detection will be presented as well as, some thoughts on the expected requirements for future machine learning based implementations.
|