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Daoyu Li¹, Jinxuan Wu¹, Jiajun Zhao¹

¹State Key Laboratory of CNS/ATM & MIIT Key Laboratory of Complex-field Intelligent Sensing, Beijing Institute of Technology, 100081, Beijing, China.

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SpectraTrack overcomes hyperspectral imaging (HSI) resolution limits using a novel computational scheme. This system achieves high spatial, temporal, and spectral resolution for advanced material identification.

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Area of Science:

Optics and Photonics
Computational Imaging
Spectroscopy

Background:

Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) offers rich spectral signatures for material identification but struggles with balancing spatial, temporal, and spectral resolution due to bandwidth limitations.
Existing HSI techniques often compromise one resolution aspect to enhance others, limiting real-time applications.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce SpectraTrack, a computational HSI scheme designed to simultaneously achieve high spatial, temporal, and spectral resolution.
To investigate the spatio-temporal-spectral multiplexing principle for enhanced HSI data acquisition.

Main Methods:

Developed a two-camera system: a line-scan imaging spectrometer for hyperspectral data and an RGB camera for motion flow.
Utilized the captured motion flow to guide the reconstruction of hyperspectral data, reintegrating scanned spectra into a 4D video.
Leveraged the spatio-temporal-spectral multiplexing principle inherent in HSI videos.

Main Results:

Achieved megapixel hyperspectral imaging (HSI) at 100 frames per second (fps) with 1200 spectral channels.
Demonstrated simultaneous high spatial, temporal, and spectral resolution in the visible-to-near-infrared (VIS-NIR) range.
Successfully reconstructed 4D hyperspectral videos by integrating motion information.

Conclusions:

SpectraTrack offers a breakthrough in HSI by overcoming traditional resolution trade-offs.
The system shows significant potential for applications requiring high-performance HSI, such as drone-based anti-vibration imaging and high-throughput anti-spoofing.
This computational approach enables video-rate HSI with unprecedented resolution capabilities.