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Computational Imaging Method for Thermal Infrared Hyperspectral Imaging Based on a Snapshot Divided-Aperture System

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: To address the technical challenge of simultaneously achieving snapshot imaging capability and high spectral resolution in thermal infrared spectral imaging, this paper proposes a computational imaging method based on a snapshot divided-aperture imaging system. In this method, a self-developed divided-aperture snapshot multispectral camera is utilized to simultaneously capture nine low-spectral-resolution images in a single exposure. The precise registration of the sub-channel images is accomplished via a star-point array calibration method. To construct the spectral reconstruction dataset, a Fourier-transform infrared hyperspectral camera (FTIR HCam) is employed to simultaneously acquire hyperspectral data from real-world scenes. Based on this, a neural network model is applied to reconstruct 127-channel hyperspectral information from the low-dimensional multispectral measurements. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method effectively achieves hyperspectral reconstruction while maintaining system compactness and snapshot imaging capability, thus providing a viable technical approach for hyperspectral sensing in dynamic thermal infrared scenarios.

Source: Sensors

DOI: 10.3390/s26061982