SASA: Saliency-Aware Self-Adaptive Snapshot Compressive Imaging

The ability of snapshot compressive imaging (SCI) systems to efficiently capture high-dimensional (HD) data depends on the advent of novel optical designs to sample the HD data as two-dimensional (2D) compressed measurements. Nonetheless, the traditional SCI scheme is fundamentally limited, due to the complete disregard for high-level information in the sampling process. To tackle this issue, in this paper, we pave the first mile toward the advanced design of adaptive coding masks for SCI. Specifically, we propose an efficient and effective algorithm to generate coding masks with the assistance of saliency detection, in a low-cost and low-power fashion. Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our approach. Code is available at: https://github.com/IndigoPurple/SASA.