Adjusted Spectral Matched Filter for Target Detection in Hyperspectral Imagery

Supervised target detection and anomaly detection are widely used in various applications, depending upon the availability of target spectral signature. Basically, they are based on a similar linear process, which makes them highly correlated. In this paper, we propose a novel adjusted spectral matched filter (ASMF) for hyperspectral target detection, which aims to effectively improve target detection performance with anomaly detection output. Specifically, a typical case is presented by using the Reed-Xiaoli (RX) anomaly detector to adjust the output of supervised constrained energy minimization (CEM) detector. The adjustment is appropriately controlled by a weighting parameter in different detection scenarios. Experiments were implemented by using both synthetic and real hyperspectral datasets. Compared to the traditional single detection method (e.g., CEM), the experimental results demonstrate that the proposed ASMF can effectively improve its performance by utilizing the result from an anomaly detector (e.g., RX), particularly in situations with a complex background or strong anomalies.