EAAI Journal 2025 Journal Article
A comb concatenation diffusion model for hyperspectral image super-resolution
- Yinghao Xu
- Hao Wang
- Xin Sun
- Qianlong Xie
- Wenwen Zhang
- Peng Ren
- Fei Zhou
- Susanto Rahardja
One primary challenge of hyperspectral image super-resolution is addressing the high dimensionality and complexity of both the spectral and spatial domains. The diffusion model incorporates conditional knowledge and utilizes a step-by-step denoising method, thereby skillfully coping with the high dimensionality and complexity of hyperspectral images. However, a major difficulty encountered by diffusion-based hyperspectral image super-resolution techniques is the accurate use of conditional knowledge to guide and limit the denoising process. Additionally, the lack of sufficient conditional knowledge results in inadequate information for generating detailed high-resolution images. To address these issues, we develop a comb concatenation strategy specifically designed for diffusion models. This strategy strengthens the accuracy of conditional knowledge in guiding and constraining the noisy image through the comb concatenation of conditional knowledge and noisy images. Additionally, we propose a comb concatenation diffusion model for hyperspectral image super-resolution, consisting of three components. The first component is the comb concatenation block, which accurately utilizes conditional knowledge to guide the denoising process. The second component is the conditional encoding block, responsible for generating rich conditional knowledge. Finally, we develop a noise prediction block tailored for the hyperspectral image super-resolution diffusion framework. This block effectively manages accurate and comprehensive conditional knowledge representations. The three complementary components work together to maintain both spatial resolution and spectral fidelity. Extensive experimental results on the Houston, Chikusei, and Qingdao university of science and technology-1 datasets demonstrate that our framework outperforms state-of-the-art methods in both quantitative evaluations and visual quality across various scenarios. We release our source code at https: //gitee. com/YinghaoXU/ISEDM for public evaluations.