35th Applied Imagery and Pattern Recognition Workshop (AIPR'06)
Some Unmixing Problems and Algorithms in Spectroscopy and Hyperspectral Imaging
Washington, DC, USA
October 11-October 13
ISBN: 0-7695-2739-6
The automated identification and mapping of the constituent materials in a hyperspectral image is a problem of considerable interest. A significant issue is that the spectra at many pixels in such an image are actually mixtures of the spectra of the pure constituents. I review methods of "unmixing" spectra into their pure constituents, both when a "spectral library" of the pure constituents is available, and where no such library is available. Our own algorithms in both these areas are exemplified with a mineral and a biological example.