Hyperspectral Diffusion Equivariant Imaging (HyDiff-EI): A Self-supervised Framework for Hyperspectral Image Inpainting

arXiv:2608.26812v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A novel Hyperspectral diffusion Equivariant Imaging (HyDiff-EI) framework for solving the hyperspectral image (HSI) inpainting problem has been presented here. Unlike conventional diffusion-based methods that rely on large-scale pretraining, HyDiff-EI is a test-time optimization framework that learns directly from a single corrupted HSI acquisition. This makes it flexible for different sensor configurations and particularly well-suited for practical remote sensing scenarios where large annotated hyperspectral datasets are limited. To address the ill-posed nature of unsupervised inpainting, we embed equivariant consistency constraints within the diffusion process. By leveraging the inherent geometric symmetries and intrinsic characteristics of HSIs, HyDiff-EI bridges the gap between generative diffusion modeling and self-consistent physical priors. We empirically show that coupling diffusion modeling with equivariant priors substantially enhances noise robustness and generalizability. Extensive experiments on real-world datasets including Chikusei, Botswana, and EMIT demonstrate that HyDiff-EI offers remarkable inpainting quality over existing self-supervised and diffusion-based algorithms in both noiseless and noisy cases.

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Source: arXiv cs.CV | 2026-08-28