Extensive Feature-Inferring Deep Network for Hyperspectral and Multispectral Image Fusion

Hyperspectral (HS) and multispectral (MS) image fusion is the most favorable way to obtain a hyperspectral image that has high resolution in terms of spatial and spectral information. This fusion problem can be accomplished by formulating a mathematical model and solving it either analytically or it...

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Main Authors: Abdolraheem Khader, Jingxiang Yang, Sara Abdelwahab Ghorashi, Ali Ahmed, Zeinab Dehghan, Liang Xiao
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Published: MDPI AG 2025-04-01
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author Abdolraheem Khader
Jingxiang Yang
Sara Abdelwahab Ghorashi
Ali Ahmed
Zeinab Dehghan
Liang Xiao
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Sara Abdelwahab Ghorashi
Ali Ahmed
Zeinab Dehghan
Liang Xiao
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description Hyperspectral (HS) and multispectral (MS) image fusion is the most favorable way to obtain a hyperspectral image that has high resolution in terms of spatial and spectral information. This fusion problem can be accomplished by formulating a mathematical model and solving it either analytically or iteratively. The mathematical solutions class has serious challenges, e.g., computation cost, manually tuning parameters, and the absence of imaging models that laboriously affect the fusion process. With the revolution of deep learning, the recent HS-MS image fusion techniques gained good outcomes by utilizing the power of the convolutional neural network (CNN) for feature extraction. Moreover, extracting intrinsic information, e.g., non-local spatial and global spectral features, is the most critical issue faced by deep learning methods. Therefore, this paper proposes an Extensive Feature-Inferring Deep Network (EFINet) with extensive-scale feature-interacting and global correlation refinement modules to improve the effectiveness of HS-MS image fusion. The proposed network retains the most vital information through the extensive-scale feature-interacting module in various feature scales. Moreover, the global semantic information is achieved by utilizing the global correlation refinement module. The proposed network is validated through rich experiments conducted on two popular datasets, the Houston and Chikusei datasets, and it attains good performance compared to the state-of-the-art HS-MS image fusion techniques.
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spelling doaj-art-dbba8e1a586c4520ab488019eca1e83b2025-08-20T03:03:21ZengMDPI AGRemote Sensing2072-42922025-04-01177130810.3390/rs17071308Extensive Feature-Inferring Deep Network for Hyperspectral and Multispectral Image FusionAbdolraheem Khader0Jingxiang Yang1Sara Abdelwahab Ghorashi2Ali Ahmed3Zeinab Dehghan4Liang Xiao5School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, ChinaSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, ChinaDepartment of Computer Sciences, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, P.O. Box 84428, Riyadh 11671, Saudi ArabiaFaculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi ArabiaSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, ChinaSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, ChinaHyperspectral (HS) and multispectral (MS) image fusion is the most favorable way to obtain a hyperspectral image that has high resolution in terms of spatial and spectral information. This fusion problem can be accomplished by formulating a mathematical model and solving it either analytically or iteratively. The mathematical solutions class has serious challenges, e.g., computation cost, manually tuning parameters, and the absence of imaging models that laboriously affect the fusion process. With the revolution of deep learning, the recent HS-MS image fusion techniques gained good outcomes by utilizing the power of the convolutional neural network (CNN) for feature extraction. Moreover, extracting intrinsic information, e.g., non-local spatial and global spectral features, is the most critical issue faced by deep learning methods. Therefore, this paper proposes an Extensive Feature-Inferring Deep Network (EFINet) with extensive-scale feature-interacting and global correlation refinement modules to improve the effectiveness of HS-MS image fusion. The proposed network retains the most vital information through the extensive-scale feature-interacting module in various feature scales. Moreover, the global semantic information is achieved by utilizing the global correlation refinement module. The proposed network is validated through rich experiments conducted on two popular datasets, the Houston and Chikusei datasets, and it attains good performance compared to the state-of-the-art HS-MS image fusion techniques.https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/17/7/1308global spectral correlationtransformerssuper-resolutionimage restorationattention mechanism
spellingShingle Abdolraheem Khader
Jingxiang Yang
Sara Abdelwahab Ghorashi
Ali Ahmed
Zeinab Dehghan
Liang Xiao
Extensive Feature-Inferring Deep Network for Hyperspectral and Multispectral Image Fusion
Remote Sensing
global spectral correlation
transformers
super-resolution
image restoration
attention mechanism
title Extensive Feature-Inferring Deep Network for Hyperspectral and Multispectral Image Fusion
title_full Extensive Feature-Inferring Deep Network for Hyperspectral and Multispectral Image Fusion
title_fullStr Extensive Feature-Inferring Deep Network for Hyperspectral and Multispectral Image Fusion
title_full_unstemmed Extensive Feature-Inferring Deep Network for Hyperspectral and Multispectral Image Fusion
title_short Extensive Feature-Inferring Deep Network for Hyperspectral and Multispectral Image Fusion
title_sort extensive feature inferring deep network for hyperspectral and multispectral image fusion
topic global spectral correlation
transformers
super-resolution
image restoration
attention mechanism
url https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/17/7/1308
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