Conjugate Gradient Unrolled Network with PSF Conditioning for Non-Diagonal Data Fidelity in CASSI Reconstruction

Deep unfolding methods achieve state-of-the-art performance in coded aperture snapshot spectral imaging (CASSI) reconstruction but typically rely on closed-form data-fidelity updates that assume an ideal optical system.

In practical CASSI systems, the field-dependent and wavelength-dependent point spread function (PSF) introduces convolutional coupling that breaks the diagonal structure of the normal equation, rendering closed-form updates inapplicable.

We propose a deep unfolding framework that addresses this fundamental algorithmic challenge through three contributions: (1)~a $K$-step conjugate gradient (CG) unrolling that explicitly solves the non-diagonal normal equation under PSF-inclusive forward operators; (2)~a learned gradient refinement module with wavelength-adaptive step sizes generated from a per-wavelength PSF embedding; and (3)~a PSF-conditioned penalty estimator that adapts the ADMM regularization strength to the optical degradation severity.

A Monte Carlo PSF training strategy further improves robustness to manufacturing-induced PSF variations.

Our method achieves 30.53~dB on the KAIST dataset, +2.73~dB over the DPU baseline (1.27M) using a comparable number of parameters (1.42M), and +1.70~dB over a larger baseline (DPU-B+, 2.12M) using 33\% fewer parameters.