Hyperspectral Pansharpening: Critical Review, Tools and Future Perspectives
University Federico II（那不勒斯费德里科二世大学）；National Research Council（国家研究委员会）；National Biodiversity Future Center（国家生物多样性未来中心）；INRIA（法国国家信息与自动化研究所）；CNRS（法国国家科学研究中心）；Grenoble INP（格勒诺布尔理工学院）；University of Grenoble Alpes（格勒诺布尔阿尔卑斯大学）；Escuela Politecnica de Caceres（卡塞雷斯理工学院）；University Parthenope（帕尔特诺佩大学）
Matteo Ciotola, Giuseppe Guarino, Gemine Vivone, Giovanni Poggi, Jocelyn Chanussot, Antonio Plaza, Giuseppe Scarpa
Hyperspectral pansharpening consists of fusing a high-resolution panchromatic band and a low-resolution hyperspectral image to obtain a new image with high resolution in both the spatial and spectral domains. These remote sensing products are valuable for a wide range of applications, driving ever growing research efforts. Nonetheless, results still do not meet application demands. In part, this comes from the technical complexity of the task: compared to multispectral pansharpening, many more bands are involved, in a spectral range only partially covered by the panchromatic component and with overwhelming noise. However, another major limiting factor is the absence of a comprehensive framework for the rapid development and accurate evaluation of new methods. This paper attempts to address this issue.
We started by designing a dataset large and diverse enough to allow reliable training (for data-driven methods) and testing of new methods. Then, we selected a set of state-of-the-art methods, following different approaches, characterized by promising performance, and reimplemented them in a single PyTorch framework. Finally, we carried out a critical comparative analysis of all methods, using the most accredited quality indicators. The analysis highlights the main limitations of current solutions in terms of spectral/spatial quality and computational efficiency, and suggests promising research directions.
To ensure full reproducibility of the results and support future research, the framework (including codes, evaluation procedures and links to the dataset) is shared on https://github.com/matciotola/hyperspectral_pansharpening_toolbox, as a single Python-based reference benchmark toolbox.
Gipsa-lab（Gipsa实验室）；ONERA（法国航空航天实验室）；Instituto de Telecomunicações（电信研究所）；Instituto Superior Técnico（高等技术学院）；Universidade de Lisboa（里斯本大学）；University of Toulouse（图卢兹大学）；Ghent University（根特大学）；North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Science and Technology Organization (STO) Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE)（北大西洋公约组织（NATO）科学与技术组织（STO）海事研究与实验中心（CMRE））；University of Tokyo（东京大学）
Pansharpening aims at fusing a panchromatic image with a multispectral one, to generate an image with the high spatial resolution of the former and the high spectral resolution of the latter. In the last decade, many algorithms have been presented in the literature for pansharpening using multispectral data. With the increasing availability of hyperspectral systems, these methods are now being adapted to hyperspectral images. In this work, we compare new pansharpening techniques designed for hyperspectral data with some of the state of the art methods for multispectral pansharpening, which hav…
Band-wise Hyperspectral Image Pansharpening using CNN Model Propagation
University Federico II（费德里科二世大学）；National Research Council, Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis, CNR-IMAA（国家研究委员会环境分析方法研究所）；National Biodiversity Future Center（国家生物多样性未来中心）；University Parthenope（帕尔特诺珀大学）
Zero-Shot Hyperspectral Pansharpening Using Hysteresis-Based Tuning for Spectral Quality Control
Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University Federico II（费米二世大学电气工程与信息科技系）；National Research Council, Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis（国家研究 council 环境分析方法研究所）；Department of Engineering, University Parthenope（帕尔泰诺大学工程系）
THAT: Token-wise High-frequency Augmentation Transformer for Hyperspectral Pansharpening
JPMorgan Chase（摩根大通公司）；University of Missouri-Kansas City（密苏里大学-堪萨斯城分校）；Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering（明希赫电气与计算机工程系）；University of Southern California（南加州大学）；Robinson Research Institute（罗宾逊研究学院）；KTH Royal Institute of Technology（皇家理工学院）；NEC Laboratories America（NEC美国实验室）；University of Virginia（弗吉尼亚大学）
Whiting School of Engineering（怀廷工程学院）；The Johns Hopkins University（约翰斯·霍普金斯大学）
Hyperspectral pansharpening aims to synthesize a low-resolution hyperspectral image (LR-HSI) with a registered panchromatic image (PAN) to generate an enhanced HSI with high spectral and spatial resolution. Recently proposed HS pansharpening methods have obtained remarkable results using deep convolutional networks (ConvNets), which typically consist of three steps: (1) up-sampling the LR-HSI, (2) predicting the residual image via a ConvNet, and (3) obtaining the final fused HSI by adding the outputs from first and second steps. Recent methods have leveraged Deep Image Prior (DIP) to up-sample…
Dual Modality Prompted Diffusion Priors for Zero Shot Hyperspectral Pansharpening
School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Normal University（北京师范大学人工智能学院）；Peking University（北京大学）；National Center for Applied Mathematics Shenzhen (NCAMS), Southern University of Science and Technology（南方科技大学深圳应用数学国家中心）；Department of Automation, Tsinghua University（清华大学自动化系）；National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Integrated Methodologies for Earth Observation (CNR-IMIOT)（意大利国家研究委员会综合地球观测方法研究所）
Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNN) have obtained promising results in single-image SR for hyperspectral pansharpening. However, enhancing CNNs' representation ability with fewer parameters and a shorter prediction time is a challenging and critical task. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-spectral image fusion method using a combination of the previously proposed 3D CNN model VolumeNet and 2.5D texture transfer method using other modality high resolution (HR) images. Since a multi-spectral (MS) image consists of several bands and each band is a 2D image slice, MS images can be …
Pansharpening aims to fuse a registered high-resolution panchromatic image (PAN) with a low-resolution hyperspectral image (LR-HSI) to generate an enhanced HSI with high spectral and spatial resolution. Existing pansharpening approaches neglect using an attention mechanism to transfer HR texture features from PAN to LR-HSI features, resulting in spatial and spectral distortions. In this paper, we present a novel attention mechanism for pansharpening called HyperTransformer, in which features of LR-HSI and PAN are formulated as queries and keys in a transformer, respectively. HyperTransformer c…
Istanbul Technical University (ITU)（伊斯坦布尔理工大学）；ITU-AI: Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Research and Application Center（伊斯坦布尔理工大学人工智能与数据科学研究与应用中心）；ITU - CSCRS (Application and Research Center for Satellite Communications and Remote Sensing)（伊斯坦布尔理工大学卫星通信与遥感应用研究中心）
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN)-based approaches have shown promising results in pansharpening of satellite images in recent years. However, they still exhibit limitations in producing high-quality pansharpening outputs. To that end, we propose a new self-supervised learning framework, where we treat pansharpening as a colorization problem, which brings an entirely novel perspective and solution to the problem compared to existing methods that base their solution solely on producing a super-resolution version of the multispectral image. Whereas CNN-based methods provide a reduced resolutio…
This thesis proposes spatio-spectral techniques for hyperspectral image analysis. Adaptive spatio-spectral support and variable exposure hyperspectral imaging is demonstrated to improve spectral reflectance recovery from hyperspectral images. Novel spectral dimensionality reduction techniques have been proposed from the perspective of spectral only and spatio-spectral information preservation. It was found that the joint sparse and joint group sparse hyperspectral image models achieve lower reconstruction error and higher recognition accuracy using only a small subset of bands. Hyperspectral i…
Although many spectral unmixing models have been developed to address spectral variability caused by variable incident illuminations, the mechanism of the spectral variability is still unclear. This paper proposes an unmixing model, named illumination invariant spectral unmixing (IISU). IISU makes the first attempt to use the radiance hyperspectral data and a LiDAR-derived digital surface model (DSM) in order to physically explain variable illuminations and shadows in the unmixing framework. Incident angles, sky factors, visibility from the sun derived from the LiDAR-derived DSM support the ex…
Northwestern Polytechnical University（西北工业大学）；University of New South Wales（新南威尔士大学）
Hyperspectral image produces high spectral resolution at the sacrifice of spatial resolution. Without reducing the spectral resolution, improving the resolution in the spatial domain is a very challenging problem. Motivated by the discovery that hyperspectral image exhibits high similarity between adjacent bands in a large spectral range, in this paper, we explore a new structure for hyperspectral image super-resolution (DualSR), leading to a dual-stage design, i.e., coarse stage and fine stage. In coarse stage, five bands with high similarity in a certain spectral range are divided into three…
Hyperspectral unmixing while considering endmember variability is usually performed by the normal compositional model (NCM), where the endmembers for each pixel are assumed to be sampled from unimodal Gaussian distributions. However, in real applications, the distribution of a material is often not Gaussian. In this paper, we use Gaussian mixture models (GMM) to represent the endmember variability. We show, given the GMM starting premise, that the distribution of the mixed pixel (under the linear mixing model) is also a GMM (and this is shown from two perspectives). The first perspective origi…
School of Computer Science, Wuhan University（武汉大学计算机学院）
Characterized by tremendous spectral information, hyperspectral image is able to detect subtle changes and discriminate various change classes for change detection. The recent research works dominated by hyperspectral binary change detection, however, cannot provide fine change classes information. And most methods incorporating spectral unmixing for hyperspectral multiclass change detection (HMCD), yet suffer from the neglection of temporal correlation and error accumulation. In this study, we proposed an unsupervised Binary Change Guided hyperspectral multiclass change detection Network (BCG…
Hyperspectral imaging offers new perspectives for diverse applications, ranging from the monitoring of the environment using airborne or satellite remote sensing, precision farming, food safety, planetary exploration, or astrophysics. Unfortunately, the spectral diversity of information comes at the expense of various sources of degradation, and the lack of accurate ground-truth "clean" hyperspectral signals acquired on the spot makes restoration tasks challenging. In particular, training deep neural networks for restoration is difficult, in contrast to traditional RGB imaging problems where d…
HetSSNet: Spatial-Spectral Heterogeneous Graph Learning Network for Panchromatic and Multispectral Images Fusion
the School of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University（浙江大学计算机科学与技术学院）；the School of Software Technology, Zhejiang University（浙江大学软件学院）；Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院空天信息创新研究院）；the Innovation Center of Yangtze River Delta, Zhejiang University（浙江大学长三角创新中心）
Hyperspectral image (HSI) classification is the most vibrant area of research in the hyperspectral community due to the rich spectral information contained in HSI can greatly aid in identifying objects of interest. However, inherent non-linearity between materials and the corresponding spectral profiles brings two major challenges in HSI classification: interclass similarity and intraclass variability. Many advanced deep learning methods have attempted to address these issues from the perspective of a region/patch-based approach, instead of a pixel-based alternate. However, the patch-based app…
Cosine-Normalized Attention for Hyperspectral Image Classification
SDAIA-KFUPM, Joint Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (JRCAI), King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals（SDAIA-KFUPM联合人工智能研究中心（JRCAI），法赫德国王石油矿产大学）；Institute of Software Development and Engineering, Innopolis University（软件开发和工程学院，因诺波利斯大学）
National Technical University of Athens（雅典国立技术大学）；University of Malta（马耳他大学）
In Cultural Heritage, hyperspectral images are commonly used since they provide extended information regarding the optical properties of materials. Thus, the processing of such high-dimensional data becomes challenging from the perspective of machine learning techniques to be applied. In this paper, we propose a Rank-$R$ tensor-based learning model to identify and classify material defects on Cultural Heritage monuments. In contrast to conventional deep learning approaches, the proposed high order tensor-based learning demonstrates greater accuracy and robustness against overfitting. Experimen…
Diffusion Models for Hyperspectral Image Analysis: A Comprehensive Review
School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology（上海理工大学光学电子与计算机工程学院）；School of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science（上海工程技术大学电子与电气工程学院）；Medical Artificial Intelligence Lab, The First Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Hebei Medical University（河北医科大学第一医院医学人工智能实验室）；Hangzhou Institute of Technology, xidian University（杭州职业技术学院）
Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院空天信息创新研究院）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；University of Extremadura（埃斯特雷马杜拉大学）；Univ. Grenoble Alpes（格勒诺布尔阿尔卑斯大学）；INRIA（法国国家信息与自动化研究所）；CNRS（法国国家科学研究中心）；Grenoble INP（格勒诺布尔理工学院）
Hyperspectral (HS) images are characterized by approximately contiguous spectral information, enabling the fine identification of materials by capturing subtle spectral discrepancies. Owing to their excellent locally contextual modeling ability, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been proven to be a powerful feature extractor in HS image classification. However, CNNs fail to mine and represent the sequence attributes of spectral signatures well due to the limitations of their inherent network backbone. To solve this issue, we rethink HS image classification from a sequential perspective…
Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院空天信息创新研究院）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals（可持续发展大数据国际研究中心）
Owing to the rapid development of sensor technology, hyperspectral (HS) remote sensing (RS) imaging has provided a significant amount of spatial and spectral information for the observation and analysis of the Earth's surface at a distance of data acquisition devices, such as aircraft, spacecraft, and satellite. The recent advancement and even revolution of the HS RS technique offer opportunities to realize the full potential of various applications, while confronting new challenges for efficiently processing and analyzing the enormous HS acquisition data. Due to the maintenance of the 3-D HS …
SUIT: Spatial-Spectral Union-Intersection Interaction Network for Hyperspectral Object Tracking
School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology（南京理工大学计算机科学与工程学院）；College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University（深圳大学计算机科学与软件工程学院）；College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University（浙江大学计算机科学学院）
SpectralMamba: Efficient Mamba for Hyperspectral Image Classification
Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院空天信息创新研究院）；School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学电子电气与通信工程学院）；School of Mathematics and Statistics, Southeast University（东南大学数学学院）；Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Inria, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LJK（格勒诺布尔阿尔卑斯大学、法国国家信息与自动化研究所、法国国家科学研究中心、格勒诺布尔理工学院、约瑟夫·傅里叶大学）
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所）
Hyperspectral unmixing, the process of estimating a common set of spectral bases and their corresponding composite percentages at each pixel, is an important task for hyperspectral analysis, visualization and understanding. From an unsupervised learning perspective, this problem is very challenging---both the spectral bases and their composite percentages are unknown, making the solution space too large. To reduce the solution space, many approaches have been proposed by exploiting various priors. In practice, these priors would easily lead to some unsuitable solution. This is because they are…
