arXiv Computer Vision

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.

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
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

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.

By Liqian Yang, Xingchi Chen, Xinfeng Gui, Xiangyong Cao, Qianxin Yi
arXiv AI
Sep 4

Exploring the Potential of Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training for Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data

The paper introduces OmniRSCLIP, an end‑to‑end contrastive learning framework that extends the CLIP architecture to handle heterogeneous remote sensing sensors such as SAR, multi‑spectral imaging, and hyperspectral imaging. It achieves this by employing Spectral‑Spatial Basis Decomposition to adapt arbitrary‑channel inputs without losing pretrained visual knowledge, and a spectral‑context‑aware mask‑based contrastive learning scheme to improve fine‑grained image‑text alignment. The authors also build OmniRS5M, a large‑scale image‑text corpus covering multiple sensor modalities, and demonstrate that OmniRSCLIP maintains strong RGB performance while effectively supporting these diverse remote sensing data types.

By Xiangyang Miao, Kelu Yao, Yekai Huang, Xiaogang Xu, Junxiao Xue, Minjun Shen, Chenghui Lv, Shanji Liu, Yaying Chen, Chao Li
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 18

Convolution-Free Holistic Multivariance Decomposition Layer for Efficient Hyperspectral Image Classification Tensor Networks

arXiv:2608. 16241v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Feature extraction for hyperspectral image classification is conventionally addressed using rigid tensor decompositions that fail to capture complex spatio-spectral interdependencies, or heavily parameterized convolutional neural networks that are computationally expensive.

By S\"uha Tuna, \"Ulker Ba\c{s}ar
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