Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution with Deep Priors and Degradation Model Inversion

To overcome inherent hardware limitations of hyperspectral imaging systems with respect to their spatial resolution, fusion-based hyper-spectral image (HSI) super-resolution is attracting increasing attention. This technique aims to fuse a low-resolution (LR) HSI and a conventional high-resolution (HR) RGB image in order to obtain an HR HSI. Recently, deep learning architectures have been used to address the HSI super-resolution problem and have achieved remarkable performance. However, they ignore the degradation model even though this model has a clear physical interpretation and may contribute to improving the performance. We address this problem by proposing a method that, on the one hand, makes use of the linear degradation model in the data-fidelity term of the objective function and, on the other hand, utilizes the output of a convolutional neural network for designing a deep prior regularizer in spectral and spatial gradient domains. Experiments show the performance improvement achieved with this strategy.