Pansharpening of WorldView-2 Data via Graph Regularized Sparse Coding and Adaptive Coupled Dictionary

• Main Authors: Wenqing Wang, Han Liu, Guo Xie
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2021-05-01
• Series: Sensors
• Subjects: pansharpening; multispectral image; panchromatic image; WorldView-2; graph regularized sparse coding; dictionary learning
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/11/3586

The spectral mismatch between a multispectral (MS) image and its corresponding panchromatic (PAN) image affects the pansharpening quality, especially for WorldView-2 data. To handle this problem, a pansharpening method based on graph regularized sparse coding (GRSC) and adaptive coupled dictionary is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the pansharpening process is divided into three tasks according to the degree of correlation among the MS and PAN channels and the relative spectral response of WorldView-2 sensor. Then, for each task, the image patch set from the MS channels is clustered into several subsets, and the sparse representation of each subset is estimated through the GRSC algorithm. Besides, an adaptive coupled dictionary pair for each task is constructed to effectively represent the subsets. Finally, the high-resolution image subsets for each task are obtained by multiplying the estimated sparse coefficient matrix by the corresponding dictionary. A variety of experiments are conducted on the WorldView-2 data, and the experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves better performance than the existing pansharpening algorithms in both subjective analysis and objective evaluation.