Applications of Computation in Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imaging Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Technological advances in image sensors and spectral filtering have allowed the proliferation of multispectral and hyperspectral imaging systems for image capture in a wide range of applications, such as medicine, remote sensing, biology, cosmetics, quality control, surveillance, food industry, and art observation, just to name a few.

The development of new system architectures and devices, as well as the increase of computational power, have put spectral imaging to a main stream of scientific and industrial interest. These imaging systems enable us to retrieve image data far beyond the capabilities of the human visual system. A multispectral imaging system usually combines two to eight spectral imaging bands of relatively wide bandwidth into a single optical system, whereas a hyperspectral imaging system combines many narrow spectral bands to get the spectrum at each pixel location. Therefore, hyperspectral imaging systems integrate spectroscopic and imaging techniques to enable direct identification of different components and their spatial distribution in the tested sample.

Moreover, this capability of sensing a big amount of data pixel-wise, also makes spectral images become perfect candidates for being used in deep learning techniques.

The impact of computational methods in multispectral and hyperspectral imaging and processing is rapidly increasing. Nevertheless, the lacking of publicly available data for some applications (especially if we compare with the amount of data existing for conventional color imaging) and the huge amount of information that a spectral image can contain are acting as deterrents for the extensive use of recently developed prediction and classification algorithms like deep-learning-based methods.  

The present Special Issue aims to present the recent advances in the development and application of computational methods in multispectral and hyperspectral imaging to further explore its potential in various applications, according but not limited to the list of keywords below. In addition to original research papers with novel research or suitable review articles describing the current state-of-the-art and the future perspectives are invited.

Prof. Dr. Javier Hernández-Andrés
Prof. Dr. Eva M. Valero Benito
Dr. Miguel Angel Martínez Domingo
Guest Editors

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• registration and data/sensor/information fusion
• segmentation
• band selection, dimensionality reduction, data compression
• feature extraction and pattern recognition
• image classification, hyperspectral unmixing, endmember finding
• saliency
• color quality assessment (image quality assessment)
• spectral estimation
• spectral databases
• denoising, dehazing
• compressive sensing and sensor design
• data visualization