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However, the spectral variability resulting from various imaging conditions in multi-temporal hyperspectral images poses a challenge to both classical and deep learning (DL) methods. To overcome the limitations imposed by spectral variability, an implicit contrastive learning-based target detector (ICLTD) is proposed to exploit in-scene spectra in an unsupervised way. First, only prior spectra are utilized for explicit supervision, while an implicit contrastive learning module (ICLM) is designed to normalize the feature distributions of prior and in-scene spectra. This paper theoretically demonstrates that the ICLM can transfer the gradients from prior spectral features to those of in-scene spectra based on their feature similarities and differences. Because of transferred gradient signals, the ICLTD is regularized to extract similar representations for the prior and in-scene target spectra, while augmenting feature differences between the target and background spectra. Additionally, a local spectral similarity constraint (LSSC) is proposed to enhance the capability of scene adaptation by leveraging the spectral similarities among in-scene targets. To validate the performance of the ICLTD under spectral variability, multi-temporal HSIs captured under various imaging conditions are collected to generate prior spectra and in-scene spectra. Comparative evaluations against several DL detectors and classical methods reveal the superior performance of the ICLTD in achieving a balance between target detectability and background suppressibility under spectral variability.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs16040718","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,2,20]],"date-time":"2024-02-20T07:50:26Z","timestamp":1708415426000},"page":"718","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Target Detection Adapting to Spectral Variability in Multi-Temporal Hyperspectral Images Using Implicit Contrastive Learning"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9719-2069","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xiaodian","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic Imaging Technology and System, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6666-8036","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kun","family":"Gao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic Imaging Technology and System, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8549-2600","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Junwei","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic Imaging Technology and System, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1944-6761","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pengyu","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic Imaging Technology and System, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China"}]},{"given":"Zibo","family":"Hu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic Imaging Technology and System, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China"}]},{"given":"Zhijia","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic Imaging Technology and System, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9828-1976","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xiaobin","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China"}]},{"given":"Wei","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,2,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"40","DOI":"10.1016\/j.isprsjprs.2016.12.009","article-title":"A survey of landmine detection using hyperspectral imaging","volume":"124","author":"Makki","year":"2017","journal-title":"ISPRS J. 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