Unmixing highly mixed grain size distribution data via maximum volume constrained end member analysis
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This study addresses the challenge of endmember extraction in highly mixed granular data, where conventional endmember analysis often fails to isolate true endmembers and instead yields mixed signatures. To overcome this limitation, the authors propose Maximum-Volume Constrained Endmember Analysis (MVC-EMA), a novel method that enforces solution uniqueness by maximizing the geometric volume spanned by the extracted endmembers. The approach is supported by rigorous theoretical guarantees and implemented via an efficient quadratic programming algorithm. Experimental results demonstrate that MVC-EMA significantly outperforms existing techniques in highly mixed scenarios, enabling more accurate recovery of true endmembers and thereby providing clearer insights into sediment provenance and depositional processes.
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📝 Abstract
End member analysis (EMA) unmixes grain size distribution (GSD) data into a mixture of end members (EMs), thus helping understand sediment provenance and depositional regimes and processes. In highly mixed data sets, however, many EMA algorithms find EMs which are still a mixture of true EMs. To overcome this, we propose maximum volume constrained EMA (MVC-EMA), which finds EMs as different as possible. We provide a uniqueness theorem and a quadratic programming algorithm for MVC-EMA. Experimental results show that MVC-EMA can effectively find true EMs in highly mixed data sets.
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end member analysis
grain size distribution
highly mixed data
sediment provenance
unmixing
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maximum volume constrained EMA
end member analysis
grain size distribution
quadratic programming
sediment unmixing
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