Sparse coding of hyperspectral imagery using online learning

Sparse coding ensures to express the data in terms of a few nonzero dictionary elements. Since the data size is large for hyperspectral imagery, it is reasonable to use sparse coding for compression of hyperspectral images. In this paper, a hyperspectral image compression method is proposed using a discriminative online learning-based sparse coding algorithm. Compression and anomaly detection tests are performed on hyperspectral images from the AVIRIS dataset. Comparative rate–distortion analyses indicate that the proposed method is superior to the state-of-the-art hyperspectral compression techniques.