Lightweight Spectral Super-Resolution Network for Hyperspectral Image Compression

The growing use of hyperspectral images demands efficient compression techniques to handle their extensive spectral data. However, current methods are constrained by their inability to adapt to high bit depth and effectively utilize the spectral characteristics, leading to suboptimal compression ratios. This paper presents a novel hyperspectral compression framework that employs a lightweight spectral super-resolution network to address these limitations. The proposed approach divides the hyperspectral image into two sub-images, comprising two distinct groups of bands: a base image consisting of anchor bands and a supplementary image comprising non-anchor bands. The base image is compressed losslessly using a conventional codec, thereby ensuring the preservation of essential information. In contrast, the supplementary image is compressed efficiently by overfitting a lightweight super-resolution network to predict the non-anchor bands during encoding. The optimized network parameters are encoded as side information to ensure high-quality spectral super-resolution during decoding. Experimental results on the ARAD hyperspectral image dataset demonstrate that our approach significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods, effectively meeting the demand for efficient hyperspectral image compression while maintaining acceptable processing speeds.