arXiv Computer Vision

Token Clustering and Semantic Sequence Mamba for Hyperspectral Image Classification

Token Clustering and Semantic Sequence Mamba (STMamba) is a new approach for hyperspectral image classification that organizes sparse tokens into semantically coherent sequences. It uses a hierarchical encoder-decoder with a Token Clustering Module (TCM) to select semantic tokens and a Cross-scale Neighborhood Attention (CNA) Upsampler to restore dense features. At the micro level, density-aware clustering and a quadtree-based dynamic selection keep sparse, spatially distributed tokens, while Spatial and Spectral Semantic-wise Sequencing Mamba (SWSM) modules capture long-range spatial and spectral dependencies within homogeneous semantic token sequences. Experiments on three large-scale benchmark datasets show that STMamba outperforms state‑of‑the‑art methods in both quantitative and qualitative metrics.

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 31

HyperVision: A Channel-Adaptive Ground-Based Hyperspectral Vision Pre-trained Backbone

HyperVision introduces the first ground‑based hyperspectral pre‑trained backbone, addressing challenges of varying spectral configurations, limited annotations, and dataset diversity. It employs a channel‑adaptive dynamic embedding to unify heterogeneous inputs, a multi‑source pseudo‑labeling strategy combining SAM2 spatial cues with HyperFree spectral details, and cross‑modal knowledge distillation from a pre‑trained RGB vision model. Trained on 15k images from 26 datasets, HyperVision achieves significant improvements—up to 16.3% relative gain in hyperspectral semantic segmentation, 2.1% in object tracking AUC, and 35.5% reduction in salient object detection MAE—while requiring only head‑only adaptation.

By Guanyiman Fu, Jingtao Li, Zihang Cheng, Zhuanfeng Li, Diqi Chen, Yan Xu, Xiangyu Liu, Fengchao Xiong, Jianfeng Lu, Chengrong Chen, Jun Zhou
arXiv AI
Aug 25

Beyond RGB: Benchmarking and Enhancing MLLMs for Hyperspectral Image Understanding via Training-Free Reasoning Framework

arXiv:2604.08884v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved strong performance on RGB image understanding, yet their ability to use spectral evide...

By Xinyu Zhang, Zurong Mai, Qingmei Li, Xiaoya Fan, Zjin Liao, Haoyuan Liang, Yibin Wen, Yuhang Chen, Chan Tsz Ho, Bi Tianyuan, Ruifeng Su, Zihao Qiang, Juepeng Zheng, Jianxi Huang, Yutong Lu, Haohuan Fu
arXiv AI
Aug 19

Multi-Scale Spectral Attention Module-based Hyperspectral Segmentation in Autonomous Driving Scenarios

The paper investigates a Multi-Scale Spectral Attention Module (MSAM) for hyperspectral image segmentation in autonomous driving. MSAM uses three parallel 1D convolutions with different kernel sizes (1–11) and adaptive feature aggregation, integrated into UNet’s skip connections. Experiments on urban driving datasets show that MSAM improves mIoU by 2.32% and mF1 by 2.88% over baseline UNet-SC while keeping GPU performance competitive, with optimal kernel combinations varying by dataset.

By Imad Ali Shah, Jiarong Li, Tim Brophy, Martin Glavin, Edward Jones, Enda Ward, Brian Deegan
arXiv Computer Vision
2d ago

HyperSAM: A Promptable Foundation Model for Hyperspectral Remote Sensing

HyperSAM is a promptable foundation model for hyperspectral remote sensing that integrates a data‑centric synthesis pipeline with a spectral adaptation architecture based on Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM3). The model generates full‑spectrum hyperspectral cubes from high‑resolution multispectral imagery using a physics‑informed abundance‑transfer generator, and employs SAM3‑derived pseudo‑masks for object‑centric supervision. With a frozen SAM3 RGB branch, a trainable hyperspectral encoder, ControlNet‑style feature injection, and a mixture‑of‑experts mask refiner, HyperSAM demonstrates strong generalization across diverse hyperspectral tasks such as classification, anomaly detection, change detection, target detection, and airborne oil‑spill mapping.

By Li Pang, Xinqiao Wu, Jing Yao, Pedram Ghamisi, Jun Zhou, Zhengchao Chen, Deyu Meng, Xiangyong Cao
arXiv AI
Sep 10

AGSA-Net: Abundance-Guided Self-Attention Network for Spectral Unmixing-Aware Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Image Classification

AGSA-Net is a hyperspectral image classification framework that incorporates spectral unmixing priors through an abundance-guided self‑attention network. It first estimates physically meaningful subpixel abundance maps with non‑negativity and sum‑to‑one constraints, then uses these abundances to build an affinity prior that directs a spectral transformer to focus on class‑discriminative interactions. The transformer features are fused with compact abundance descriptors for final classification, and experiments on Indian Pines, Augsburg, and Berlin datasets show improved performance, especially in heterogeneous urban scenes.

By Nafisa Anjum, Satavisa Dey Borno, Ananna Saha, Mir Faiyaz Hossain, Sifat Momen, Nabeel Mohammed, Shafin Rahman
arXiv Computer Vision
1d ago

Hyperspectral Image Models: Technical Report

The technical report introduces Hyperspectral Image Models, a modular framework that unifies 55 deep‑learning models across six paradigms for hyperspectral remote sensing. It standardizes tensor conventions, evaluation protocols, and dataset handling, integrating 24 benchmark scenes from various sensors and providing tools to avoid train‑test overlap. Experiments across 1,320 model‑scene combinations show that scene difficulty outweighs architecture, with no single paradigm dominating and small models achieving performance comparable to much larger ones.

By Tanishq Rachamalla, Aryan Das, Srishti Kaushik, Swalpa Kumar Roy
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 15

MambaMPD: A Mamba-Driven Segmentation Framework for Marine Pollution Detection from Remote Sensing Imagery

MambaMPD is a new segmentation framework that leverages Vision Mamba models for marine pollution detection in remote‑sensing imagery. It introduces two structural priors—Frequency‑Aware Augmentation (FAA) and multi‑scale Edge‑Guided Attention (EGA)—to better capture low‑contrast, fragmented pollution patterns and sharpen boundaries. Experiments on the MADOS and M4D datasets show that MambaMPD outperforms existing methods in mIoU while using far less computation than foundation‑model approaches.

By Shuaiyu Chen, Wei Han, Peng Ren, Chunbo Luo, Zeyu Fu