Title
Improvements in the Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Endmember Extraction From Hyperspectral Images
Abstract
Endmember extraction is a vital step in spectral unmixing of hyperspectral images. The Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm has been recently developed for endmember extraction from hyperspectral data. However, this algorithm may result in a local optimal solution for some hyperspectral images without prescient information, and also has limitation in computational performance. Therefore, in this paper, we proposed several new methods to improve the ACO algorithm for endmember extraction (ACOEE). Firstly, the heuristic information was optimized to improve the algorithm accuracy. In the improved ACOEE, only the pheromones were adopted as the heuristic information when there was no prescient information about hyperspectral data. Then, to enhance algorithm performance, an elitist strategy was proposed to lessen the iteration numbers without reducing the accuracy, and the parallel implementation of ACOEE on graphics processing units (GPUs) also was utilized to shorten the computational time per iteration. The experiment for real hyperspectral data demonstrated that both the endmember extraction accuracy and the computational performance of ACOEE benefited from these methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/JSTARS.2012.2236821
Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, IEEE Journal of
Keywords
Field
DocType
ant colony optimization algorithm,optimisation,geophysical techniques,ant colony optimization,acoee computational performance,graphics processing units,spectral unmixing,hyperspectral data,gpus,elitist strategy,geophysical image processing,real hyperspectral data,aco algorithm,hyperspectral imaging,acoee parallel implementation,local optimal solution,hyperspectral image extraction,endmember extraction,vectors,algorithm design and analysis,instruction sets
Ant colony optimization algorithms,Graphics,Computer vision,Endmember,Heuristic,Computer science,Algorithm,Hyperspectral imaging,Artificial intelligence
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
6
2
1939-1404
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.43
28
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bing Zhang142274.10
Jianwei Gao2112.53
Lianru Gao337359.90
Xu Sun43710.14