arXiv Computer Vision

Learning Spatial-Spectral Refinement and Calibrating Complementary Observations for Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution

The paper introduces TSR-ITNR, a two‑stage, self‑supervised framework for hyperspectral image super‑resolution that fuses high‑resolution multispectral and low‑resolution hyperspectral data. Stage 1 refines an implicit Tucker representation using a low‑rank spatial tensor and spectral basis, enhanced by a pretrained denoiser, to capture fine spatial details and spectral correlations. Stage 2 applies parameter‑free calibration to extract complementary corrections from both observations, preserving geometry and ensuring orthogonal complementarity, leading to superior reconstruction quality demonstrated on benchmark datasets and improved downstream segmentation performance.

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 Computer Vision
Sep 2

Agentic Multimodal Models for Environmental Hyperspectral Unmixing

The paper presents an agentic framework that uses a large vision‑language model to refine hyperspectral unmixing results from existing modular pipelines. By iteratively gathering spectral and spatial evidence through tools such as spectral‑library retrieval and abundance‑map visualization, the agent merges or discards endmembers and re‑estimates abundances. Experiments on HYDICE Urban, Jasper Ridge, and Stonewall Playa datasets show consistent improvements in endmember cardinality and overall decomposition quality across multiple pipelines, while remaining competitive with end‑to‑end methods.

By Micha{\l} Cholewa, Luca Ciampi, Nicola Messina, Przemys{\l}aw G{\l}omb, Giuseppe Amato
arXiv AI
Aug 18

Hierarchical Adaptive Feature Refinement Network for VHR Remote Sensing Image Segmentation

arXiv:2608. 15647v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semantic segmentation of very-high-resolution (VHR) remote sensing imagery increasingly benefits from strong pretrained hierarchical encoders, yet exploiting their multi-stage representations remains difficult.

By Shuaishuai Cao, Meng Tang, Shuwei Peng, Xuan Liu, Min Huang, Jie Chen, Jiacheng Niu, Yong Chen, Edore Akpokodje, Hui Lin
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 8

ASFR-Net: Adversarial Alignment and Spatio-Frequency Refinement Network for Heterogeneous Remote Sensing Image Change Detection

The core challenge of heterogeneous change detection in remote sensing imagery lies in effectively decoupling genuine land-cover changes from significant modal disparities caused by distinct imaging mechanisms. These intrinsic inconsistencies are prone to introducing pseudo-changes, thereby constraining detection accuracy.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 7

HyVIC: A Metric-Driven Spatio-Spectral Hyperspectral Image Compression Architecture Based on Variational Autoencoders

HyVIC is a configurable variational autoencoder designed for hyperspectral image compression that explicitly separates spatial and spectral feature learning. By allowing independent control of these two aspects, the architecture improves reconstruction fidelity across a wide range of compression ratios, achieving up to 4.66 dB better BD‑PSNR than previous methods. The authors also introduce a metric‑driven strategy for hyperparameter selection and provide code and pretrained models publicly.

By Martin Hermann Paul Fuchs, Behnood Rasti, Beg\"um Demir
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 AI
Jun 2

Beyond Visual Fidelity: Benchmarking Super-Resolution Models for Large-Scale Remote Sensing Imagery via Downstream Task Integration

arXiv:2605. 00310v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Super-resolution (SR) techniques have made major advances in reconstructing high-resolution images from low-resolution inputs.

By Zhili Li, Kangyang Chai, Zhihao Wang, Xiaowei Jia, Yanhua Li, Gengchen Mai, Sergii Skakun, Dinesh Manocha, Yiqun Xie