Filterless Snapshot Hyperspectral Imaging using Guided Patch Diffusion

We consider the problem of reconstructing a HxWx31 hyperspectral image from a $H\times W$ grayscale snapshot measurement that is captured using only a single diffractive lens and a filterless panchromatic photosensor.

This problem is severely ill-posed, but we present a model that produces high-quality results in simulation and experiment.

We make efficient use of limited training data by creating a conditional denoising diffusion model that operates on small patches in a shift-invariant manner.

During inference, we synchronize per-patch hyperspectral predictions using guidance by physical consistency with the system's optical point spread function.

Our experiments reveal that the patch size can be as small as the point spread function, with local optical cues being the main source of information about complete spectra.

Also, by drawing multiple samples, our model provides per-pixel uncertainty estimates that strongly correlate with reconstruction error.