Laplacian Eigenmaps Manifold Learning and Anomaly Detection Methods for Spectral Images
by Munoz Reales, Marcela, M.S., ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, 2010, 83 pages; 1488189

Abstract:

Spectral images provide a large amount of spectral information about a scene, but sometimes when studying images, we are interested in specific components. It is a difficult problem to separate the relevant information or what we call interesting from the background of a spectral image, even more so if our target objects are unknown. Anomaly detection is a process by which algorithms are designed to separate the anomalous (different) points from the background of an image. The data is complex and lives in a high dimension, manifold learning algorithms are used to analyze data that lives in a high dimensional space, but that can be represented as a lower dimensional manifold embedded in the high dimensional space. Laplacian Eigenmaps is a manifold learning algorithm that applies spectral graph theory methods to perform a non-linear dimensionality reduction that preserves local neighborhood information. We present an approach to reduce the dimension of the data and separate anomalous pixels in spectral images using Laplacian Eigenmaps.

 
AdviserWilliam Basener
SchoolROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
SourceMAI/ 49-03, p. , Feb 2011
Source TypeThesis
SubjectsMathematics
Publication Number1488189
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