Spectral Super-Resolution Neural Operator with Atmospheric Radiative Transfer Prior

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17895v1
• Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2025 02:58:03 GMT
• Title: Spectral Super-Resolution Neural Operator with Atmospheric Radiative Transfer Prior
• Authors: Ziye Zhang, Bin Pan, Zhenwei Shi,
• Abstract summary: Spectral super-resolution (SSR) aims to reconstruct hyperspectral images (HSIs) from multispectral observations.<n>Data-driven methods are widely used, but they often overlook physical principles, leading to unrealistic spectra.<n>We propose the Spectral Super-Resolution Neural Operator (SSRNO), which incorporates atmospheric radiative transfer (ART) prior into the data-driven procedure.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Spectral super-resolution (SSR) aims to reconstruct hyperspectral images (HSIs) from multispectral observations, with broad applications in remote sensing. Data-driven methods are widely used, but they often overlook physical principles, leading to unrealistic spectra, particularly in atmosphere-affected bands. To address this challenge, we propose the Spectral Super-Resolution Neural Operator (SSRNO), which incorporates atmospheric radiative transfer (ART) prior into the data-driven procedure, yielding more physically consistent predictions. The proposed SSRNO framework consists of three stages: upsampling, reconstruction, and refinement. In the upsampling stage, we leverage prior information to expand the input multispectral image, producing a physically plausible hyperspectral estimate. Subsequently, we utilize a neural operator in the reconstruction stage to learn a continuous mapping across the spectral domain. Finally, the refinement stage imposes a hard constraint on the output HSI to eliminate color distortion. The upsampling and refinement stages are implemented via the proposed guidance matrix projection (GMP) method, and the reconstruction neural operator adopts U-shaped spectral-aware convolution (SAC) layers to capture multi-scale features. Moreover, we theoretically demonstrate the optimality of the GMP method. With the neural operator and ART priors, SSRNO also achieves continuous spectral reconstruction and zero-shot extrapolation. Various experiments validate the effectiveness and generalization ability of the proposed approach.

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