Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution by Spectral Mixture Analysis and Spatial–Spectral Group Sparsity

Due to the limitation of hyperspectral sensors and optical imaging systems, there are several irreconcilable conflicts between high spatial resolution and high spectral resolution of hyperspectral images (HSIs). Therefore, HSI super-resolution (SR) is regarded as an important preprocessing task for subsequent applications. In this letter, we use sparse representation to analyze the spectral and spatial feature of HSIs. Considering the sparse characteristic of spectral unmixing and high pattern repeatability of spatial–spectral blocks, we proposed a novel HSI SR framework utilizing spectral mixture analysis and spatial–spectral group sparsity. By simultaneously combining the sparsity and the nonlocal self-similarity of the images in the spatial and spectral domains, the method not only maintains the spectral consistency but also produces plenty of image details. Experiments on three hyperspectral data sets confirm that the proposed method is robust to noise and achieves better results than traditional methods.