The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a versatile image segmentation model that enables zero-shot segmentation of various objects in any image using prompts, including bounding boxes, points, texts, and more. However, studies have shown that the SAM performs poorly in agricultural tasks like crop disease segmentation and pest segmentation. To address this issue, the agricultural SAM adapter (ASA) is proposed, which incorporates agricultural domain expertise into the segmentation model through a simple but effective adapter technique. By leveraging the distinctive characteristics of agricultural image segmentation and suitable user prompts, the model enables zero-shot segmentation, providing a new approach for zero-sample image segmentation in the agricultural domain. Comprehensive experiments are conducted to assess the efficacy of the ASA compared to the default SAM. The results show that the proposed model achieves significant improvements on all 12 agricultural segmentation tasks. Notably, the average Dice score improved by 41.48% on two coffee-leaf-disease segmentation tasks.

Hyperspectral technology is used to obtain spectral and spatial information of samples simultaneously and demonstrates significant potential for use in seed purity identification. However, it has certain limitations, such as high acquisition cost and massive redundant information. This study integrates the advantages of the sparse feature of the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) algorithm and the classification feature of the logistic regression model (LRM). We propose a hyperspectral rice seed purity identification method based on the LASSO logistic regression model (LLRM). The feasibility of using LLRM for the selection of feature wavelength bands and seed purity identification are discussed using four types of rice seeds as research objects. The results of 13 different adulteration cases revealed that the value of the regularisation parameter was different in each case. The recognition accuracy of LLRM and average recognition accuracy were 91.67–100% and 98.47%, respectively. Furthermore, the recognition accuracy of full-band LRM was 71.60–100%. However, the average recognition accuracy was merely 89.63%. These results indicate that LLRM can select the feature wavelength bands stably and improve the recognition accuracy of rice seeds, demonstrating the feasibility of developing a hyperspectral technology with LLRM for seed purity identification.

Gaussian mixture model (GMM) has been one of the most representative models for hyperspectral unmixing while considering endmember variability. However, the GMM unmixing models only have proper smoothness and sparsity prior constraints on the abundances and thus do not take into account the possible local spatial correlation. When the pixels that lie on the boundaries of different materials or the inhomogeneous region, the abundances of the neighboring pixels do not have those prior constraints. Thus, we propose a novel GMM unmixing method based on superpixel segmentation (SS) and low-rank representation (LRR), which is called GMM-SS-LRR. we adopt the SS in the first principal component of HSI to get the homogeneous regions. Moreover, the HSI to be unmixed is partitioned into regions where the statistical property of the abundance coefficients have the underlying low-rank property. Then, to further exploit the spatial data structure, under the Bayesian framework, we use GMM to formulate the unmixing problem, and put the low-rank property into the objective function as a prior knowledge, using generalized expectation maximization to solve the objection function. Experiments on synthetic datasets and real HSIs demonstrated that the proposed GMM-SS-LRR is efficient compared with other current popular methods.

Image stitching task targets to derive a large panoramic image for obtaining extensive information. However, artifacts like ghosting or geometric misalignment are inevitably generated. As a practical measure, optimal seamline detection strategies utilize the spatial information to obtain the optimal seam in RGB image stitching, but they cannot be directly used in hyperspectral image (HSI) stitching. Since the spatial information of numerous continuous bands of HSI is different, the detected seam of traditional RGB-based method in each band of HSI is divergent, which will cause visual difference and spectral distortion. To solve this problem, we propose a novel optimal seamline detection strategy via graph cuts for HSI stitching in this work. First, we employ robust feature matching and elastic warp to align multiple adjacent images into a common geometrical transformation. After that, we design a novel energy function composing both spatial and spectral information of HSI to determine an optimal seam in continuous regions with high texture consistency. Finally, we utilize the graph cuts method to eliminate visible artifacts. Our method can determine a unique optimal seam in the whole HSI for stitching so as to obtain high-quality panoramic HSI without artifacts and reduce the spectral distortion. A series of experiments verify the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method to several advanced approaches in HSI stitching.

In recent years, endmember variability has received much attention in the field of hyperspectral unmixing. To solve the problem caused by the inaccuracy of the endmember signature, the endmembers are usually modeled to assume followed by a statistical distribution. However, those distribution-based methods only use the spectral information alone and do not fully exploit the possible local spatial correlation. When the pixels lie on the inhomogeneous region, the abundances of the neighboring pixels will not share the same prior constraints. Thus, in this paper, to achieve better abundance estimation performance, a method based on the Gaussian mixture model (GMM) and spatial group sparsity constraint is proposed. To fully exploit the group structure, we take the superpixel segmentation (SS) as preprocessing to generate the spatial groups. Then, we use GMM to model the endmember distribution, incorporating the spatial group sparsity as a mixed-norm regularization into the objective function. Finally, under the Bayesian framework, the conditional density function leads to a standard maximum a posteriori (MAP) problem, which can be solved using generalized expectation-maximization (GEM). Experiments on simulated and real hyperspectral data demonstrate that the proposed algorithm has higher unmixing precision compared with other state-of-the-art methods.

With the continuous development of hyperspectral image technology and deep learning methods in recent years, an increasing number of hyperspectral image classification models have been proposed. However, due to the numerous spectral dimensions of hyperspectral images, most classification models suffer from issues such as breaking spectral continuity and poor learning of spectral information. In this paper, we propose a new classification model called the enhanced spectral fusion network (ESFNet), which contains two parts: an optimized multi-scale fused spectral attention module (FsSE) and a 3D convolutional neural network (3D CNN) based on the fusion of different spectral strides (SSFCNN). Specifically, after sampling the hyperspectral images, our model first implements the weighting of the spectral information through the FsSE module to obtain spectral data with a higher degree of information richness. Then, the weighted spectral data are fed into the SSFCNN to realize the effective learning of spectral features. The new model can maximize the retention of spectral continuity and enhance the spectral information while being able to better utilize the enhanced information to improve the model’s ability to learn hyperspectral image features, thus improving the classification accuracy of the model. Experiment results on the Indian Pines and Pavia University datasets demonstrated that our method outperforms other relevant baselines in terms of classification accuracy and generalization performance.