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:2608. 12227v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) offers nondestructive assessment of fish freshness by detecting biochemical alterations across spectral bands.
By Kazi Nabiul Alam, Pooneh Bagheri Zadeh, Akbar Sheikh-Akbari
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
Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) offers nondestructive assessment of fish freshness by detecting biochemical alterations across spectral bands. However, conventional deep learning approaches do not fully address the particular characteristics of HSI data, such as spectral dominance over spatial textures, ordinal label structure, and a small number of training samples.
arXiv:2608. 01202v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fruit ripeness prediction (FRP) is a classification-based agricultural computer vision task that has attracted much attention, thanks to its wide-ranging advantages in agriculture field for both pre-harvest and post-harvest management.
By Ahmed Baha Ben Jmaa, Faten Chaieb, Anna Fabija\'nska
Hyperspectral remote sensing provides dense spectral measurements that are indispensable for material-level Earth observation, yet the construction of a general-purpose hyperspectral foundation model...
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
Fruit ripeness prediction (FRP) is a classification-based agricultural computer vision task that has attracted much attention, thanks to its wide-ranging advantages in agriculture field for both pre-harvest and post-harvest management. Accurate and timely FRP can be achieved using machine/deep learning-based hyperspectral image classification techniques.
arXiv:2512.15971v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Multispectral object detection is critical for safety-sensitive applications such as autonomous driving and surveillance, where robust perception u...
By Manuel Nkegoum, Minh-Tan Pham, \'Elisa Fromont, Bruno Avignon, S\'ebastien Lef\`evre
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
The paper introduces a self‑supervised, physics‑aware deep learning method for hyperspectral image restoration and super‑resolution in biomedical imaging. It achieves 16× pixel super‑resolution and 12× faster imaging without external training data, preserving biological integrity across synthetic and experimental samples. The approach also reveals disease‑associated metabolic changes and offers physical insights into the model’s workings, with all code released as open source.
By Yuchen Xiang, Zhaolu Liu, Monica Emili Garcia-Segura, Daniel Simon, Boxuan Cao, Vincen Wu, Kenneth Robinson, Yu Wang, Ronan Battle, Najah Sobhan, Robert T. Murray, Xavier Altafaj, John Marshall, Luca Peruzzotti-Jametti, Zoltan Takats
arXiv:2608.06205v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Multispectral object detection combines visible and thermal imagery to improve perception under challenging illumination and environmental conditio...
By Nima Hatami, Karim Faez, Saeed Sharifian, Hamidreza Amindavar