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  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,331 Views
18 Pages

4 March 2021

We propose a method for the unsupervised clustering of hyperspectral images based on spatially regularized spectral clustering with ultrametric path distances. The proposed method efficiently combines data density and spectral-spatial geometry to dis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
83 Citations
8,075 Views
21 Pages

15 February 2019

Hyperspectral image classification is a challenging and significant domain in the field of remote sensing with numerous applications in agriculture, environmental science, mineralogy, and surveillance. In the past years, a growing number of advanced...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,328 Views
21 Pages

2 November 2024

Clustering, as a classical unsupervised artificial intelligence technology, is commonly employed for hyperspectral image clustering tasks. However, most existing clustering methods designed for remote sensing tasks aim to solve a non-convex objective...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
987 Views
14 Pages

13 August 2025

Hyperspectral image (HSI) clustering has attracted significant attention due to its broad applications in agricultural monitoring, environmental protection, and other fields. However, the integration of high-dimensional spectral and spatial informati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,989 Views
22 Pages

2 April 2021

Low-rank representation with hypergraph regularization has achieved great success in hyperspectral imagery, which can explore global structure, and further incorporate local information. Existing hypergraph learning methods only construct the hypergr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,484 Views
15 Pages

Spatial–Spectral Constrained Adaptive Graph for Hyperspectral Image Clustering

  • Xing-Hui Zhu,
  • Yi Zhou,
  • Meng-Long Yang and
  • Yang-Jun Deng

7 August 2022

Hyperspectral image (HSI) clustering is a challenging task, whose purpose is to assign each pixel to a corresponding cluster. The high-dimensionality and noise corruption are two main problems that limit the performance of HSI clustering. To address...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,295 Views
20 Pages

Hierarchical Sparse Subspace Clustering (HESSC): An Automatic Approach for Hyperspectral Image Analysis

  • Kasra Rafiezadeh Shahi,
  • Mahdi Khodadadzadeh,
  • Laura Tusa,
  • Pedram Ghamisi,
  • Raimon Tolosana-Delgado and
  • Richard Gloaguen

28 July 2020

Hyperspectral imaging techniques are becoming one of the most important tools to remotely acquire fine spectral information on different objects. However, hyperspectral images (HSIs) require dedicated processing for most applications. Therefore, seve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
1,086 Views
23 Pages

Large-Scale Hyperspectral Image-Projected Clustering via Doubly Stochastic Graph Learning

  • Nian Wang,
  • Zhigao Cui,
  • Yunwei Lan,
  • Cong Zhang,
  • Yuanliang Xue,
  • Yanzhao Su and
  • Aihua Li

25 April 2025

Hyperspectral image (HSI) clustering has drawn more and more attention in recent years as it frees us from labor-intensive manual annotation. However, current works cannot fully enjoy the rich spatial and spectral information due to redundant spectra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,796 Views
14 Pages

17 July 2022

Hyperspectral imaging can simultaneously acquire spectral and spatial information of the samples and is, therefore, widely applied in the non-destructive detection of grain quality. Supervised learning is the mainstream method of hyperspectral imagin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,471 Views
20 Pages

Hyperspectral Image Classification Promotion Using Clustering Inspired Active Learning

  • Chen Ding,
  • Mengmeng Zheng,
  • Feixiong Chen,
  • Yuankun Zhang,
  • Xusi Zhuang,
  • Enquan Fan,
  • Dushi Wen,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Wei Wei and
  • Yanning Zhang

26 January 2022

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have promoted much of the recent progress in hyperspectral image (HSI) classification, which depends on extensive labeled samples and deep network structure and has achieved surprisingly good generalization capacity. Howev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,560 Views
15 Pages

An Application of Hyperspectral Image Clustering Based on Texture-Aware Superpixel Technique in Deep Sea

  • Panjian Ye,
  • Chenhua Han,
  • Qizhong Zhang,
  • Farong Gao,
  • Zhangyi Yang and
  • Guanghai Wu

10 October 2022

This paper aims to study the application of hyperspectral technology in the classification of deep-sea manganese nodules. Considering the spectral spatial variation of hyperspectral images, the difficulty of label acquisition, and the inability to gu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,671 Views
19 Pages

28 February 2022

In hyperspectral remote sensing, the clustering technique is an important issue of concern. Affinity propagation is a widely used clustering algorithm. However, the complex structure of the hyperspectral image (HSI) dataset presents challenge for the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
418 Views
26 Pages

Spectral–Spatial Superpixel Bi-Stochastic Graph Learning for Large-Scale and High-Dimensional Hyperspectral Image Clustering

  • Cheng Chen,
  • Nian Wang,
  • Shengming Wang,
  • Jiping Cao,
  • Tao Wang,
  • Zhigao Cui and
  • Yanzhao Su

23 November 2025

Despite the substantial body of work that has achieved large-scale data expansion using anchor-based strategies, these methods incur linear complexity relative to the sample size during iterative processes, making them quite time-consuming. Moreover,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,208 Views
13 Pages

Unsupervised Clustering for Hyperspectral Images

  • Laura Bianca Bilius and
  • Stefan Gheorghe Pentiuc

12 February 2020

Hyperspectral images are becoming a valuable tool much used in agriculture, mineralogy, and so on. The challenge is to successfully classify the materials founded in the field relevant for different applications. Due to a large amount of data corresp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,404 Views
25 Pages

Unsupervised Diffusion and Volume Maximization-Based Clustering of Hyperspectral Images

  • Sam L. Polk,
  • Kangning Cui,
  • Aland H. Y. Chan,
  • David A. Coomes,
  • Robert J. Plemmons and
  • James M. Murphy

15 February 2023

Hyperspectral images taken from aircraft or satellites contain information from hundreds of spectral bands, within which lie latent lower-dimensional structures that can be exploited for classifying vegetation and other materials. A disadvantage of w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,118 Views
16 Pages

An Efficient Representation-Based Subspace Clustering Framework for Polarized Hyperspectral Images

  • Zhengyi Chen,
  • Chunmin Zhang,
  • Tingkui Mu,
  • Tingyu Yan,
  • Zeyu Chen and
  • Yanqiang Wang

26 June 2019

Recently, representation-based subspace clustering algorithms for hyperspectral images (HSIs) have been developed with the assumption that pixels belonging to the same land-cover class lie in the same subspace. Polarization is regarded to be a comple...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,809 Views
32 Pages

Sketch-Based Subspace Clustering of Hyperspectral Images

  • Shaoguang Huang,
  • Hongyan Zhang,
  • Qian Du and
  • Aleksandra Pižurica

29 February 2020

Sparse subspace clustering (SSC) techniques provide the state-of-the-art in clustering of hyperspectral images (HSIs). However, their computational complexity hinders their applicability to large-scale HSIs. In this paper, we propose a large-scale SS...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,763 Views
17 Pages

10 December 2020

Hyperspectral image classification has been increasingly used in the field of remote sensing. In this study, a new clustering framework for large-scale hyperspectral image (HSI) classification is proposed. The proposed four-step classification scheme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
247 Views
18 Pages

Discriminative Anchor Learning for Hyperspectral Image Clustering

  • Yu Yun,
  • Quanxue Gao,
  • Jianwei Zhao,
  • Yu Duan and
  • Cheng Deng

9 December 2025

Anchor-based clustering algorithms for hyperspectral image (HSI) have alleviated the computational burden and become a prominent research direction in remote sensing. The performance results of these methods are heavily influenced by the quality of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
4,998 Views
20 Pages

3 November 2021

Hyperspectral image (HSI) clustering is a major challenge due to the redundant spectral information in HSIs. In this paper, we propose a novel deep subspace clustering method that extracts spatial–spectral features via contrastive learning. First, we...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
7,070 Views
19 Pages

Parallel K-Means Clustering for Brain Cancer Detection Using Hyperspectral Images

  • Emanuele Torti,
  • Giordana Florimbi,
  • Francesca Castelli,
  • Samuel Ortega,
  • Himar Fabelo,
  • Gustavo Marrero Callicó,
  • Margarita Marrero-Martin and
  • Francesco Leporati

The precise delineation of brain cancer is a crucial task during surgery. There are several techniques employed during surgical procedures to guide neurosurgeons in the tumor resection. However, hyperspectral imaging (HSI) is a promising non-invasive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,813 Views
31 Pages

7 March 2024

Band clustering has been widely used for hyperspectral band selection (BS). However, selecting an appropriate band to represent a band cluster is a key issue. Density peak clustering (DPC) provides an effective means for this purpose, referred to as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,217 Views
24 Pages

30 July 2025

Unsupervised hyperspectral image (HSI) clustering is a fundamental yet challenging task due to high dimensionality and complex spectral–spatial characteristics. In this paper, we propose a novel and efficient clustering framework centered on ad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,007 Views
11 Pages

15 October 2013

Hyperspectral images represent an important source of information to assess ecosystem biodiversity. In particular, plant species richness is a primary indicator of biodiversity. This paper uses spectral variance to predict vegetation richness, known...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,055 Views
18 Pages

30 September 2017

Hyperspectral image (HSI) clustering has drawn increasing attention due to its challenging work with respect to the curse of dimensionality. In this paper, we propose a novel class probability propagation of supervised information based on sparse sub...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,385 Views
43 Pages

From Model-Based Optimization Algorithms to Deep Learning Models for Clustering Hyperspectral Images

  • Shaoguang Huang,
  • Hongyan Zhang,
  • Haijin Zeng and
  • Aleksandra Pižurica

29 May 2023

Hyperspectral images (HSIs), captured by different Earth observation airborne and space-borne systems, provide rich spectral information in hundreds of bands, enabling far better discrimination between ground materials that are often indistinguishabl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,022 Views
17 Pages

10 October 2020

The analysis, measurement, and computation of remote sensing images often require enhanced unsupervised/supervised classification approaches. The goal of this study is to have a better understanding of (a) the classification performance of multispect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,670 Views
31 Pages

28 September 2021

Classical approaches in cluster analysis are typically based on a feature space analysis. However, many applications lead to datasets with additional spatial information and a ground truth with spatially coherent classes, which will not necessarily b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,843 Views
20 Pages

31 August 2024

This study focused on improving the clustering performance of hyperspectral imaging (HSI) by employing the Generalized Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (GOMP) algorithm for feature extraction. Hyperspectral remote sensing imaging technology, which is cruc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
6,728 Views
15 Pages

1 April 2017

Hyperspectral image (HSI) clustering is generally a challenging task because of the complex spectral-spatial structure. Based on the assumption that all the pixels are sampled from the union of subspaces, recent works have introduced a robust techniq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,977 Views
37 Pages

Measuring the Level of Aflatoxin Infection in Pistachio Nuts by Applying Machine Learning Techniques to Hyperspectral Images

  • Lizzie Williams,
  • Pancham Shukla,
  • Akbar Sheikh-Akbari,
  • Sina Mahroughi and
  • Iosif Mporas

2 March 2025

This paper investigates the use of machine learning techniques on hyperspectral images of pistachios to detect and classify different levels of aflatoxin contamination. Aflatoxins are toxic compounds produced by moulds, posing health risks to consume...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
8,723 Views
15 Pages

Convolutional Neural Networks Based Hyperspectral Image Classification Method with Adaptive Kernels

  • Chen Ding,
  • Ying Li,
  • Yong Xia,
  • Wei Wei,
  • Lei Zhang and
  • Yanning Zhang

16 June 2017

Hyperspectral image (HSI) classification aims at assigning each pixel a pre-defined class label, which underpins lots of vision related applications, such as remote sensing, mineral exploration and ground object identification, etc. Lots of classific...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,676 Views
14 Pages

11 April 2022

For marine accidents, prompt actions to minimize the casualties and loss of property are crucial. Remote sensing using satellites or aircrafts enables effective monitoring over a large area. Hyperspectral remote sensing allows the acquisition of high...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,277 Views
22 Pages

17 December 2022

Ore and waste discrimination is essential for optimizing exploitation and minimizing ore dilution in a mining operation. The conventional ore/waste discrimination approach relies on the interpretation of ore control by geologists, which is subjective...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,428 Views
20 Pages

A Superpixel-by-Superpixel Clustering Framework for Hyperspectral Change Detection

  • Qiuxia Li,
  • Tingkui Mu,
  • Hang Gong,
  • Haishan Dai,
  • Chunlai Li,
  • Zhiping He,
  • Wenjing Wang,
  • Feng Han,
  • Abudusalamu Tuniyazi and
  • Haoyang Li
  • + 3 authors

13 June 2022

Hyperspectral image change detection (HSI-CD) is an interesting task in the Earth’s remote sensing community. However, current HSI-CD methods are feeble at detecting subtle changes from bitemporal HSIs, because the decision boundary is partiall...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
3,823 Views
22 Pages

Estimation of the Number of Endmembers in Hyperspectral Images Using Agglomerative Clustering

  • José Prades,
  • Gonzalo Safont,
  • Addisson Salazar and
  • Luis Vergara

1 November 2020

Many tasks in hyperspectral imaging, such as spectral unmixing and sub-pixel matching, require knowing how many substances or materials are present in the scene captured by a hyperspectral image. In this paper, we present an algorithm that estimates...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,430 Views
28 Pages

SLIC Superpixel-Based l2,1-Norm Robust Principal Component Analysis for Hyperspectral Image Classification

  • Baokai Zu,
  • Kewen Xia,
  • Tiejun Li,
  • Ziping He,
  • Yafang Li,
  • Jingzhong Hou and
  • Wei Du

24 January 2019

Hyperspectral Images (HSIs) contain enriched information due to the presence of various bands, which have gained attention for the past few decades. However, explosive growth in HSIs’ scale and dimensions causes “Curse of dimensionality&r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,467 Views
15 Pages

Curing Assessment of Concrete with Hyperspectral Imaging

  • Lisa Ptacek,
  • Alfred Strauss,
  • Barbara Hinterstoisser and
  • Andreas Zitek

9 July 2021

The curing of concrete significantly influences the hydration process and its strength development. Inadequate curing leads to a loss of quality and has a negative effect on the durability of the concrete. Usually, the effects are not noticed until y...

  • Article
  • Open Access
238 Views
22 Pages

28 November 2025

In the classification applications of hyperspectral remote sensing images (HSIs), band selection is crucial for mitigating the curse of dimensionality while preserving the intrinsic physical information within HSIs. Although clustering-based band sel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,011 Views
21 Pages

Assessing the Effect of Water on Submerged and Floating Plastic Detection Using Remote Sensing and K-Means Clustering

  • Lenka Fronkova,
  • Ralph P. Brayne,
  • Joseph W. Ribeiro,
  • Martin Cliffen,
  • Francesco Beccari and
  • James H. W. Arnott

25 November 2024

Marine and freshwater plastic pollution is a worldwide problem affecting ecosystems and human health. Although remote sensing has been used to map large floating plastic rafts, there are research gaps in detecting submerged plastic due to the limited...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,990 Views
18 Pages

PSSA: PCA-Domain Superpixelwise Singular Spectral Analysis for Unsupervised Hyperspectral Image Classification

  • Qiaoyuan Liu,
  • Donglin Xue,
  • Yanhui Tang,
  • Yongxian Zhao,
  • Jinchang Ren and
  • Haijiang Sun

6 February 2023

Although supervised classification of hyperspectral images (HSI) has achieved success in remote sensing, its applications in real scenarios are often constrained, mainly due to the insufficiently available or lack of labelled data. As a result, unsup...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,970 Views
20 Pages

13 April 2021

In the context of the problem of image blur and nonlinear reflectance difference between bands in the registration of hyperspectral images, the conventional method has a large registration error and is even unable to complete the registration. This p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,930 Views
24 Pages

10 October 2022

The high spectral resolution of hyperspectral images (HSIs) provides rich information but causes data redundancy, which imposes a computational burden on practical applications. Band selection methods can select a subset of HSI without changing the m...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,538 Views
19 Pages

14 January 2021

Hyperspectral unmixing is an important technique for analyzing remote sensing images which aims to obtain a collection of endmembers and their corresponding abundances. In recent years, non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) has received extensive a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,537 Views
27 Pages

14 November 2020

We investigated nearest-neighbor density-based clustering for hyperspectral image analysis. Four existing techniques were considered that rely on a K-nearest neighbor (KNN) graph to estimate local density and to propagate labels through algorithm-spe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,720 Views
18 Pages

Hyperspectral images (HSI) provide ample spectral information of land cover. The hybrid classification method works well for HSI; however, how to select the suitable similarity measures as kernels with the appropriate weights of hybrid classification...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
50 Citations
4,797 Views
13 Pages

16 May 2019

Fusion of the high-spatial-resolution hyperspectral (HHS) image using low-spatial- resolution hyperspectral (LHS) and high-spatial-resolution multispectral (HMS) image is usually formulated as a spatial super-resolution problem of LHS image with the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,091 Views
24 Pages

Self-Organizing Maps for Clustering Hyperspectral Images On-Board a CubeSat

  • Aksel S. Danielsen,
  • Tor Arne Johansen and
  • Joseph L. Garrett

18 October 2021

Hyperspectral remote sensing reveals detailed information about the optical response of a scene. Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs) can partition a hyperspectral dataset into clusters, both to enable more analysis on-board the imaging platform and to reduce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
237 Views
28 Pages

Scalable Context-Preserving Model-Aware Deep Clustering for Hyperspectral Images

  • Xianlu Li,
  • Nicolas Nadisic,
  • Shaoguang Huang,
  • Nikos Deligiannis and
  • Aleksandra Pižurica

14 December 2025

Subspace clustering has become widely adopted for the unsupervised analysis of hyperspectral images (HSIs). Recent model-aware deep subspace clustering methods often use a two-stage framework, involving the calculation of a self-representation matrix...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,450 Views
27 Pages

An Unsupervised Feature Extraction Using Endmember Extraction and Clustering Algorithms for Dimension Reduction of Hyperspectral Images

  • Sayyed Hamed Alizadeh Moghaddam,
  • Saeed Gazor,
  • Fahime Karami,
  • Meisam Amani and
  • Shuanggen Jin

3 August 2023

Hyperspectral images (HSIs) provide rich spectral information, facilitating many applications, including landcover classification. However, due to the high dimensionality of HSIs, landcover mapping applications usually suffer from the curse of dimens...

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