Advantages of robust spectral unmixing.

  • It automatically disregards outliers as quadruples that contain outlier pixels will produce values (a,b) that will be accumulated in cells which will not form a significant peak.

  • If two or more different mixtures are present in the mixed set, there will be two or more significant peaks that emerge in the accumulator array. By identifying the quadruples of pixels that voted for each peak, we cannot only identify the mixing proportions, but also separate the two mixtures. Figure 12 shows an example of an accumulator array with two main peaks. Figure 13 shows the same array as a grey image where the two peaks are the two brightest spots.

Figure 12

Figure 13